9-letter words containing p, t
- hourplate — the dial of a clock or watch
- housekept — to keep or maintain a house.
- housetops — Plural form of housetop.
- hoverport — A terminal for hovercraft.
- hunt's-up — (formerly) a call played on a hunting horn in the morning to rouse and assemble the participants in a hunt.
- hustle up — to prepare quickly
- hydroptic — (formerly) edema.
- hydropult — a type of water pump or machine that expels water by means of hand power, as, for example, a fire extinguisher
- hylophyte — a plant that grows in woods
- hypanthia — Plural form of hypanthium.
- hypaspist — a shield bearer, especially one of a special unit of light infantry in the Macedonian army.
- hypermart — a very large, discount supermarket with a maximum range of products including groceries, apparel and general household goods
- hypertalk — A verbose semicompiled language by Bill Atkinson and Dan Winkler, with loose syntax and high readability. HyperTalk uses HyperCard as an object management system, development environment and interface builder. Programs are organised into "stacks" of "cards", each of which may have "buttons" and "fields". All data storage is in zero-terminated strings in fields, local, or global variables; all data references are through "chunk expressions" of the form: 'last item of background field "Name List" of card ID 34217'. Flow of control is event-driven and uses message-passing among scripts that are attached to stack, background, card, field and button objects.
- hypertext — a method of storing data through a computer program that allows a user to create and link fields of information at will and to retrieve the data nonsequentially.
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hyphenate — to join by a hyphen.
- hypnodiet — a diet involving the use of hypnosis to change one's attitude to food
- hypnotics — Plural form of hypnotic.
- hypnotise — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotism — the science dealing with the induction of hypnosis.
- hypnotist — the science dealing with the induction of hypnosis.
- hypnotize — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotoid — resembling or similar to hypnosis
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- hypocotyl — the part of a plant embryo directly below the cotyledons, forming a connection with the radicle.
- hypocrite — a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.
- hyponasty — increased growth along the lower surface of a plant or plant part, causing it to bend upward.
- hypostoma — Hypostome.
- hypostome — any of several parts or organs of the mouth, as the labrum of a crustacean.
- hypostyle — having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling: a hypostyle hall.
- hypotaxis — dependent relation or construction, as of clauses; syntactic subordination.
- hypotheca — (microbiology, planktology) The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- hypotonia — An abnormal loss of muscle tone.
- hypotonic — Physiology. (of tissue) having less than the normal tone.
- hypotonus — Hypotonia.
- hypotrich — any ciliate of the suborder Hypotricha, having cilia chiefly on the ventral surface.
- ibm pc at — (computer) ("Advanced Technology") A version of the IBM PC, released in Aug 1984 with an Intel 80286 processor, a 16-bit bus, a medium-speed hard disk and a 1.2 megabyte floppy disk drive. It had a larger case than the PC, which allowed it to accept "tall cards". The AT keyboard corrected the PC's non-standard placement of the return and left shift keys but shortened the backspace key, making it harder to reach.
- ibm pc xt — (computer) An IBM PC with a (slow) hard disk. The XT was released in March 1983. It had an Intel 8088 CPU. The XT/370, released in October 1983, added IBM 370 mainframe emulation, and the XT 286 followed in September 1986 with an Intel 80286 CPU [Why?].
- ice piton — a type of piton designed for being driven into ice
- ice plant — a plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, native to the Mediterranean region, having fleshy leaves that are covered with glistening vesicles and are sometimes eaten as greens.
- ice point — the temperature at which a mixture of ice and air-saturated water at a pressure of one atmosphere is in equilibrium, represented by 0°C and 32°F.
- idiopathy — a disease not preceded or occasioned by any known morbid condition.
- idiotypic — the molecular arrangement of amino acids unique to the antigen-binding site of a particular antibody.
- ill-kempt — unkempt.
- ill-spent — misspent; wasted.
- impactful — having or manifesting a great impact or effect: After the senator's impactful speech, her bill passed.
- impacting — the striking of one thing against another; forceful contact; collision: The impact of the colliding cars broke the windshield.
- impaction — an act or instance of impacting.
- impactite — a glassy or crystalline material composed of slag and meteoric materials, produced by the impact of a meteorite striking the earth.