9-letter words containing s, h, a, p
- handshape — (in sign language) the held position of the hand and fingers in producing a particular sign.
- handspike — a bar used as a lever.
- handstamp — an implement for stamping an impression
- haplessly — In a hapless manner.
- happen-so — chance; happenstance; accident: Meeting you today was pure happen-so.
- happiness — the quality or state of being happy.
- happyness — Misspelling of happiness.
- hapsburgs — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- hard-spun — (of yarn) compactly twisted in spinning.
- hardparts — the skeleton
- hardscape — the manmade part of the grounds surrounding a building, as paved areas or statues.
- hardships — Plural form of hardship.
- harp seal — a northern earless seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, with pale-yellow fur darkening to gray with age, of coasts, drifting ice, and seas of the North Atlantic Ocean, hunted for its fur.
- harrumphs — Plural form of harrumph.
- haruspicy — divination by a haruspex.
- havasupai — a member of a small tribe of nomadic North American Indians now living in Arizona.
- hawsepipe — an iron or steel pipe in the stem or bow of a vessel through which an anchor cable passes.
- head shop — a shop selling paraphernalia of interest to drug users or associated with the use of drugs.
- headlamps — Plural form of headlamp.
- headships — Plural form of headship.
- headspace — empty space left above the contents of a closed jar, can, or other container.
- heapstead — the buildings at the surface of a mine
- hellspawn — (fantasy) A creature or creatures from Hell.
- helpmates — (British) Plural form of helpmate.
- hemispace — the area to either the right or left side of the body
- 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.
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- hip flask — small container for carrying alcohol
- hippocras — an old medicinal cordial made of wine mixed with spices.
- hispanism — a movement in Latin America for the promotion of Spanish or of native culture and influence. Compare hispanidad.
- hispanist — a specialist in the Spanish or Portuguese language or in Spanish or Latin-American literature or culture.
- homoplasy — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- 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.
- hospodars — Plural form of hospodar.
- 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.
- humpbacks — Plural form of humpback.
- hypaspist — a shield bearer, especially one of a special unit of light infantry in the Macedonian army.
- hyperbase — (database) An experimental active multi-user database for hypertext systems from the University of Aalborg, written in C++. It is built on the client-server model enabling distributed, concurrent, and shared access from workstations in a local area network. See also EHTS.
- hypobasis — the lowermost distinctively treated part of a base.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.