9-letter words containing y, p, e
- haplotype — Genetics. a combination of closely linked DNA sequences on one chromosome that are often inherited together: By comparing haplotypes of a mother and father with those of a fetus, scientists can study how new genetic changes arise.
- happen by — chance upon
- happyness — Misspelling of happiness.
- harpylike — resembling a harpy
- hedyphane — a white or yellow mineral with elongated crystals similar to mimetite, chiefly found in Sweden
- heliotype — A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
- helophyte — any perennial marsh plant that bears its overwintering buds in the mud below the surface
- helpfully — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- hemolymph — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
- hemopathy — (medicine) Any disorder or disease of the blood.
- hen party — a party or gathering for women only.
- 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.
- heptapody — a verse with seven metrical feet
- heptarchy — (often initial capital letter) the seven principal concurrent Anglo-Saxon kingdoms supposed to have existed in the 7th and 8th centuries.
- hermatype — reef-building coral.
- holophyte — (of a plant) obtaining energy by synthesizing inorganic substances; autotrophic.
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- 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.
- hopefully — in a hopeful manner: We worked hopefully and energetically, thinking we might finish first.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hyde park — a public park in London, England.
- hylophyte — a plant that grows in woods
- hypallage — the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”.
- hyper-man — A browser available with Epoch giving hypertext access to the Unix manual.
- hyperacid — Highly acidic.
- hyperarid — being without moisture; extremely dry; parched: arid land; an arid climate.
- 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.
- hyperbola — the set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater angle with the base than does the generator of the cone. Equation: x 2 /a 2 − y 2 /b 2 = ±1.
- hyperbole — obvious and intentional exaggeration.
- hypercard — A software package by Bill Atkinson for storage and retrieval of information on the Macintosh. It can handle images and is designed for browsing. The powerful customisable interactive user interface allows new applications to be easily constructed by manipulating objects on the screen, often without conventional programming, though the language HyperTalk can be used for more complex tasks.
- hypercube — A geometric figure in four or more dimensions that is analogous to a cube in three dimensions.
- hyperemia — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hyperemic — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hyperfine — Extremely fine, especially of the hyperfine structure in the spectra of atoms and molecules.
- hyperform — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by hypercorrection.
- hypergamy — the practice among Hindu women of marrying into a caste at least as high as their own.
- hypericin — an antidepressant and antiviral compound derived from Saint John's wort
- hypericum — A yellow-flowered plant of a genus that includes the St. John’s worts and rose of Sharon.
- hyperlink — hypertext link
- hypermart — a very large, discount supermarket with a maximum range of products including groceries, apparel and general household goods
- hypermile — to improve fuel mileage in a motor vehicle, as by adopting certain driving techniques or making design alterations to the vehicle.
- hypernews — A Hypertext system from the Turing Institute Glasgow, based on NeWS.
- hypernova — (astronomy) The gravitational collapse of a massive star to form a black hole.
- hypernyms — Plural form of hypernym.
- hypernymy — the state or quality of being a hypernym or superordinate (a general class under which a set of subcategories is subsumed).
- hyperonym — (linguistics) Hypernym; superordinate term.
- hyperopia — a condition of the eye in which parallel rays are focused behind the retina, distant objects being seen more distinctly than near ones; farsightedness (opposed to myopia).
- hyperopic — Farsighted; of, having, or pertaining to hyperopia.