9-letter words containing s, p, h, r
- epigraphs — Plural form of epigraph.
- esophoria — (ophthalmology) Inward deviation of the eye usually due to extra-ocular muscle imbalance.
- euphrasia — eyebright
- euphrates — a river in SW Asia, rising in E Turkey and flowing south across Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris, forming the Shatt-al-Arab, which flows to the head of the Persian Gulf: important in ancient times for the extensive irrigation of its valley (in Mesopotamia). Length: 3598 km (2235 miles)
- exosphere — The outermost region of a planet's atmosphere.
- exstrophy — (medicine) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface.
- farm shop — a shop that sells farm produce
- fire ship — a vessel loaded with combustibles and explosives, ignited, and set adrift to destroy an enemy's ships or constructions.
- geosphere — the solid portion of the earth (distinguished from atmosphere, hydrosphere).
- grapeshot — a cluster of small cast-iron balls formerly used as a charge for a cannon.
- graphemes — Plural form of grapheme.
- grog-shop — a saloon or barroom, especially a cheap one.
- guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
- hairspray — a liquid in an aerosol or other spray container, for holding the hair in place.
- hampshire — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- handgrips — Plural form of handgrip.
- handpress — a printing press that is manipulated by hand
- 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.
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- heptarchs — Plural form of heptarch.
- hesperian — western; occidental.
- hippocras — an old medicinal cordial made of wine mixed with spices.
- homospore — (botany) any plant producing spores of the same size and type.
- homospory — the production of a single kind of spore, neither microspore nor megaspore.
- hoopsters — Plural form of hoopster.
- hornpipes — Plural form of hornpipe.
- hornpouts — Plural form of hornpout.
- horoscope — a diagram of the heavens, showing the relative position of planets and the signs of the zodiac, for use in calculating births, foretelling events in a person's life, etc.
- horoscopy — Archaic. the casting or taking of horoscopes.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- horsepond — A pond for watering horses.
- horsewhip — a whip for controlling horses.
- hospodars — Plural form of hospodar.
- hot press — a hot press is an airing cupboard for clothes
- hot-press — a machine applying heat in conjunction with mechanical pressure, as for producing a smooth surface on paper or for expressing oil.
- humphries — (John) Barry. born 1934, Australian comic actor and writer, best known for creating the character Dame Edna Everage
- 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.
- hypernews — A Hypertext system from the Turing Institute Glasgow, based on NeWS.
- hypernyms — Plural form of hypernym.
- hypocrism — (obsolete) hypocrisy.
- hypocrisy — a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
- hypospray — (science fiction) A kind of jet injector.
- isomorphs — Plural form of isomorph.