9-letter words containing t, e, p, h
- heptalogy — (rare) # A set of seven works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as seven individual works. They are commonly found in literature, film, or video games.
- heptanone — any of three isomeric ketones, C 11 H 14 O, derived from heptane.
- heptapody — a verse with seven metrical feet
- heptarchs — Plural form of heptarch.
- heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
- hepteract — (mathematics) A seven-dimensional hypercube.
- herceptin — a monoclonal antibody that inhibits the protein that can fuel tumour growth, used in the treatment of breast cancer
- hermatype — reef-building coral.
- herpetoid — reptilian, reptiliform
- heteropod — any marine invertebrate with a foot or feet adapted for swimming
- high-step — to walk or run by raising the legs higher than normal.
- hiplength — reaching to or covering the hips, as clothing: a hiplength sweater.
- hippiater — (rare) A veterinarian specializing in horse care.
- hippurite — an extinct type of bivalve mollusc (family Hippuritidae) found as fossils from the late Cretaceous period
- holophote — an apparatus by which practically all the light from a lighthouse lamp or the like is thrown in a desired direction.
- holophyte — (of a plant) obtaining energy by synthesizing inorganic substances; autotrophic.
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- home port — the port where a ship is registered.
- homeopath — a person who practices or favors homeopathy.
- honey pot — any of a caste of workers in certain species of ants, that serve as living storehouses for a honeylike material later used by the whole colony
- honeypots — Plural form of honeypot.
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- hoopsters — Plural form of hoopster.
- hospitage — the position of being a guest
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitate — (obsolete, transitive) To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.
- hot plate — a portable appliance for cooking, formerly heated by a gas burner placed underneath it, now heated chiefly by an electrical unit in the appliance.
- 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.
- hotplates — Plural form of hotplate.
- 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.
- hustle up — to prepare quickly
- hylophyte — a plant that grows in woods
- 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
- hypnotise — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotize — to put in the hypnotic state.
- 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.
- 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.
- hypotheca — (microbiology, planktology) The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- indepthly — (nonstandard) in depth.
- integraph — integrator (def 2).