9-letter words containing s, a, h, p, t
- hardparts — the skeleton
- heapstead — the buildings at the surface of a mine
- helpmates — (British) Plural form of helpmate.
- hempstead — a village on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- hepaticas — Plural form of hepatica.
- hepatitis — inflammation of the liver, caused by a virus or a toxin and characterized by jaundice, liver enlargement, and fever.
- hepatomas — Plural form of hepatoma.
- heptagons — Plural form of heptagon.
- heptarchs — Plural form of heptarch.
- hispanist — a specialist in the Spanish or Portuguese language or in Spanish or Latin-American literature or culture.
- hospitage — the position of being a guest
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitals — Plural form of hospital.
- hospitate — (obsolete, transitive) To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.
- hot pants — (used with a plural verb) very brief and usually tight-fitting shorts for women and girls, first popularized in the early 1970s.
- hotplates — Plural form of hotplate.
- hypaspist — a shield bearer, especially one of a special unit of light infantry in the Macedonian army.
- 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.
- hyponasty — increased growth along the lower surface of a plant or plant part, causing it to bend upward.
- hypostoma — Hypostome.
- hypotaxis — dependent relation or construction, as of clauses; syntactic subordination.
- isophotal — relating to an isophote or isophotes, or to a diagram on which isophotes are represented
- karpathos — an island off the SE coast of Greece, part of the Dodecanese Islands, in the Aegean Sea. 110 sq. mi. (280 sq. km).
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- malt shop — a retail establishment specializing in serving ice-cream drinks, as malted milks, milk shakes, and sodas.
- mast hasp — mast clamp (def 2).
- metaphase — the stage in mitosis or meiosis in which the duplicated chromosomes line up along the equatorial plate of the spindle.
- metaphors — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- naphthols — Plural form of naphthol.
- naphthous — of, relating to or derived from naphtha
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- nightcaps — Plural form of nightcap.
- osteopath — a physician who practices osteopathy.
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- pack shot — (in television advertising) a close-up of the product being advertised, usually so that the viewer can register its logo and packaging
- packsheet — a cloth used for packing goods
- pankhurst — Christabel Harriette, 1880–1958, English suffragist leader (daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst).
- pantheism — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- pantheist — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- pantihose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- pantyhose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- parthenos — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- parthians — a native or inhabitant of Parthia.
- pathogens — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
- phantasma — phantasm (defs 1, 2).
- phase out — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- philistia — an ancient country on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- phosphate — Chemistry. (loosely) a salt or ester of phosphoric acid. a tertiary salt of orthophosphoric acid, as sodium phosphate.