10-letter words containing p, o, s, h, e
- herophilus — died ?280 bc, Greek anatomist in Alexandria. He was the first to distinguish sensory from motor nerves
- hesperinos — vesper (def 3).
- hexapodous — (zoology) Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.
- hey presto — magician's conjuring words
- high hopes — great expectations
- hippomanes — (formerly) a substance found on the forehead of a newborn foal or obtained from a mare in foal, thought to act as an aphrodisiac
- hippomenes — the successful suitor of Atalanta.
- hipsterdom — The state of being a hipster.
- holophrase — a word functioning as a phrase or sentence, as the imperative Go!
- home scrap — scrap steel reprocessed in the steel mill in which it was produced.
- homophiles — Plural form of homophile.
- homophobes — Plural form of homophobe.
- homophones — Phonetics. a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not, as heir and air.
- homosphere — The lower part of the atmosphere, up to about sixty miles, in which there is no great change in its composition.
- hoop snake — any of several harmless snakes, as the mud snake and rainbow snake, fabled to take its tail in its mouth and roll along like a hoop.
- hope chest — (especially formerly) a chest or the like in which a young woman collected clothing, linens, and other articles in anticipation of marriage.
- hopelessly — In a way that shows or causes despair.
- horoscopes — Plural form of horoscope.
- horse-whip — a whip for controlling horses.
- horsepower — a foot-pound-second unit of power, equivalent to 550 foot-pounds per second, or 745.7 watts.
- horsewhips — Plural form of horsewhip.
- hospitable — receiving or treating guests or strangers warmly and generously: a hospitable family.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hospitalet — a city in NE Spain, near Barcelona.
- hotel ship — a ship which is moored and used as a hotel
- housephone — a telephone, used for making calls within a hotel or apartment house, that does not have a direct line to an exchange and whose calls are routed through the building's switchboard.
- houseplant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- houseproud — Alternative form of house-proud.
- hoverports — Plural form of hoverport.
- hydroscope — an optical device for viewing objects below the surface of water.
- hydrospace — the regions beneath the surface of the oceans and seas.
- hygroscope — an instrument that indicates the approximate humidity of the air.
- hyperbolas — Plural form of hyperbola.
- hyperboles — Plural form of hyperbole.
- hyperchaos — (mathematics) A form of chaotic behaviour with at least two positive Lyapunov exponents.
- hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
- hyperosmic — Of, pertaining to, or affected by hyperosmia.
- hypersonic — noting or pertaining to speed that is at least five times that of sound in the same medium.
- hypervisor — (computing) A software and/or firmware system that provides a virtual machine and allows it to operate directly on underlying hardware (instead of via emulation), but within specified constraints.
- hypnotised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypnotise.
- hypnotises — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hypnotize.
- hypocrisie — Obsolete form of hypocrisy.
- hypocrites — Plural form of hypocrite.
- hypodermis — Zoology. an underlayer of epithelial cells in arthropods and certain other invertebrates that secretes substances for the overlying cuticle or exoskeleton.
- hypogenous — growing beneath, or on the undersurface, as fungi on leaves.
- hypogeusia — a disease characterized by a decreased ability to taste and, sometimes, to smell: associated with a zinc deficiency
- hypomnesia — Deficiency of the memory.
- hypophyses — Plural form of hypophysis.
- hypopiesis — abnormally low arterial blood pressure; hypotension.