10-letter words containing t, h, a, r, p
- haphtaroth — Plural form of haphtarah.
- haptometer — a mechanical device for measuring the sense of touch.
- hard paste — true porcelain, made with kaolin, feldspar, quartz, or petuntse.
- hartlepool — a seaport city in NE England.
- headstripe — A stripe of colored feathers on the head of a bird.
- heat cramp — a cramp or muscular spasm caused by loss of water and salt following prolonged exertion in hot weather.
- hectograph — a process for making copies of a letter, memorandum, etc., from a prepared gelatin surface to which the original writing has been transferred.
- hektograph — to copy with the hectograph.
- hemipteral — of or relating to a hemipterous insect
- hemipteran — hemipterous.
- hemitropal — hemitropous
- heptachlor — a highly toxic, light-tan, waxy solid, C 10 H 5 Cl 7 , used as an insecticide: its manufacture and use are restricted in the U.S.
- heptachord — a musical scale of seven notes.
- heptameron — A literary work whose action covers a period of seven days.
- heptameter — a verse of seven metrical feet.
- hermatypic — reef-building coral.
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hippiatric — relating or belonging to the treatment of disease in horses
- hit parade — a listing or category of popular songs ranked according to their popularity with listeners, usually as shown by sales of records.
- homopteran — homopterous.
- hospitaler — 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.
- hydropathy — the curing of disease by the internal and external use of water.
- hyetograph — a map or chart showing the average rainfall for the localities represented.
- hyoplastra — the second foremost pair of plastral bones in a turtle
- hypaethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hypaethron — a part of a building or court which is open to the sky
- hyperacute — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- hyperalert — fully aware and attentive; wide-awake; keen: an alert mind.
- hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
- hyperbaton — the use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the expected or usual one, as in “Bird thou never wert.”.
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
- hyphenator — One who, or that which, hyphenates.
- hypometria — Dysmetria in which the patient tends to undershoot the intended target.
- hypothenar — the fleshly prominence on the palm at the base of the little finger.
- interphase — the period of the cell cycle during which the nucleus is not undergoing division, typically occurring between mitotic or meiotic divisions. Also called interkinesis. Compare G1 phase, S phase, G2 phase.
- intraphase — (chemistry, physics) Within a phase.
- light trap — any mechanical arrangement that allows some form of movement to take place while excluding light, such as a light-proof door or the lips of a film cassette
- lithograph — a print produced by lithography.
- macrophyte — a plant, especially a marine plant, large enough to be visible to the naked eye.
- march past — a parade or procession, especially of troops past a reviewing stand.
- march-past — a parade or procession, especially of troops past a reviewing stand.
- mastership — the office, function, or authority of a master.
- metaphoric — 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).
- metaphrase — a literal translation.
- metaphrast — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- morphactin — any of various synthetic compounds, derived from fluorine and carboxylic acid, that regulate the growth and development of plants.
- mouth harp — harmonica (def 1).
- mouthparts — Plural form of mouthpart.
- myoatrophy — atrophy of muscle.