11-letter words containing t, e, l, p, h
- hall porter — concierge
- hard palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- health camp — a camp, usually at the seaside, for children requiring health care
- heater plug — one of usually four plugs fitted to the cylinder block of a diesel engine that warms the engine chamber to facilitate starting in cold weather
- hectopascal — An SI unit of pressure and stress equal to 100 pascals.
- helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
- heliophytes — a plant that grows best in full sunlight.
- heliotropes — Plural form of heliotrope.
- heliotropic — turning or growing toward the light.
- heliotropin — piperonal.
- hell to pay — serious consequences, as of a foolish action
- hemp nettle — a coarse weed of the genus Galeopsis, of the mint family, resembling hemp in appearance and having bristly hairs like the nettle.
- hepplewhite — George, died 1786, English furniture designer and cabinetmaker.
- heptangular — having seven angles.
- heptathlete — (athletics) An athlete who competes in the heptathlon.
- heptathlons — Plural form of heptathlon.
- heptavalent — septivalent.
- herpetology — the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians.
- heterophile — Able to react immunologically with material from another species.
- heteroplasm — (pathology) Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
- heteroploid — (biology) Having a chromosome number that is neither the haploid nor the diploid number normal in the species.
- heteropolar — polar (def 4).
- honey plant — any of various plants that are particularly useful in providing bees with nectar
- hop trefoil — a leguminous plant, Trifolium campestre, of N temperate grasslands, with globular yellow flower heads and trifoliate leaves
- horripilate — to produce horripilation on.
- hospitalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hospitalize.
- hospitalize — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hospitaller — 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.
- hotelkeeper — a manager or owner of a hotel.
- house plant — an ornamental plant that is grown indoors or adapts well to indoor culture.
- houseplants — Plural form of houseplant.
- hyperbolist — One who uses hyperbole; an exaggerator.
- hyperdactyl — having an excessive number of fingers or toes
- hypergelast — Someone who laughs excessively.
- hypermotile — Abnormally or excessively motile.
- hypervalent — (chemistry) having a higher than normal valence.
- hypocentral — (geology) Of or pertaining to the hypocentre of an earthquake.
- hypohalites — Plural form of hypohalite.
- hyposulfite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
- hypothermal — lukewarm; tepid.
- in the loop — a portion of a cord, ribbon, etc., folded or doubled upon itself so as to leave an opening between the parts.
- in the lump — in the mass or aggregate; all together
- isenthalpic — pertaining to or characterized by constant enthalpy.
- lamplighter — a person employed to light and extinguish street lamps, especially those burning gas.
- lappet moth — a large purple-brown hairy eggar moth, Gastropacha quercifolia, whose grey furry caterpillars have lappets on each flank
- lectureship — the office of lecturer.
- let her rip — to go ahead; continue without restraint
- light opera — operetta.
- lightplanes — Plural form of lightplane.
- lithopedion — (medical) A calcium-encased foetus that occurs in ectopic abdominal pregnancies when the foetus dies and is not reabsorbed by the maternal body, whereby the maternal system encases the foreign body (foetus) in calcium to isolate it.