9-letter words that end in p
- giantship — the character, condition, or personality of a giant
- gift-wrap — to wrap (something), as a package, with decorative paper, ribbon, etc., for presentation as a gift.
- gimme cap — a visored cap decorated with the symbol or name of a product, company, etc.
- ginger up — a reedlike plant, Zingiber officinale, native to the East Indies but now cultivated in most tropical countries, having a pungent, spicy rhizome used in cookery and medicine. Compare ginger family.
- gjellerup — Karl [kahrl] /kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1857–1919, Danish novelist: Nobel Prize 1917.
- glow lamp — a vacuum tube containing a gas that is ionized by the electrons, giving a visible glow.
- gobble up — to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.
- gooped up — sticky with goop
- goosebump — The bumps on a person's skin, at the base of body hair, which may involuntarily develop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions.
- goosestep — Alternative form of goose-step.
- gourd cup — a metal cup of the 16th and 17th centuries having a gourd-shaped bowl mounted on a stem.
- grace cup — a cup, as of wine, passed around at the end of the meal for the final health or toast.
- grog-shop — a saloon or barroom, especially a cheap one.
- guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
- guideship — the position of a guide
- guildship — guild (defs 1, 2).
- hacked up — (jargon, programming) Sufficiently patched, kluged, and tweaked that the surgical scars are beginning to crowd out normal tissue (compare critical mass). Not all programs that are hacked become "hacked up"; if modifications are done with some eye to coherence and continued maintainability, the software may emerge better for the experience. Contrast hack up.
- hair clip — clasp for securing hairstyle
- half step — Music. semitone.
- half-slip — a woman's skirtlike undergarment, usually of a straight or slightly flared shape and having a narrow elasticized waistband.
- half-step — Music. semitone.
- hammerkop — A bird from southern Africa, Scopus umbretta, of the Scopidae family and related to the herons.
- handclasp — a gripping of hands by two or more people, as in greeting, parting, making a commitment, or expressing affection.
- handstamp — an implement for stamping an impression
- harden up — to tighten the sheets of a sailing vessel so as to prevent luffing
- head shop — a shop selling paraphernalia of interest to drug users or associated with the use of drugs.
- head trip — a mentally exhilarating or productive experience, as one in which a person's intellect or imagination seems to expand.
- heat lamp — a lamp fitted with an infrared bulb to supply heat especially as part of physical therapy.
- heat pump — a device that uses a compressible refrigerant to transfer heat from one body, as the ground, air, or water, to another body, as a building, with the process being reversible.
- high jump — sport: jumping over a high bar
- high-jump — to participate in the high jump; compete as a high jumper.
- high-step — to walk or run by raising the legs higher than normal.
- higher-up — a person in a position of higher authority in an organization; superior.
- home help — A home help is a person who is employed to visit sick or old people at home and help with their cleaning or cooking.
- honeytrap — A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
- hopped up — excited; enthusiastic; exuberant, especially overexuberant.
- hopped-up — excited; enthusiastic; exuberant, especially overexuberant.
- horsewhip — a whip for controlling horses.
- housekeep — to keep or maintain a house.
- hula hoop — toy: plastic hoop
- hunt's-up — (formerly) a call played on a hunting horn in the morning to rouse and assemble the participants in a hunt.
- hustle up — to prepare quickly
- image map — (web) An image in an HTML document with "hot spots" which when clicked on in a suitable browser, act as anchors or links to other information. For example, an image of a map of the world might provide links to resources related to different countries. Clicking on a country would take the user to the relevant information.
- in a heap — If someone collapses in a heap, they fall heavily and untidily and do not move.
- intercrop — to grow one crop between the rows of another, as in an orchard or field.
- interlisp — (language) A dialect of Lisp developed in 1967 by Bolt, Beranek and Newman (Cambridge, MA) as a descendant of BBN-Lisp. It emphasises user interfaces. It is currently[?] supported by Xerox PARC. Interlisp was one of two main branches of LISP (the other being MACLISP). In 1981 Common LISP was begun in an effort to combine the best features of both. Interlisp includes a Lisp programming environment. It is dynamically scoped. LAMBDA functions evaluate their arguments, NLAMBDA functions do not. Any function could be called with optional arguments. See also AM, CLISP, Interlisp-10, Interlisp-D.
- interloop — Between loops.
- jack kemp — Jack F. 1935–2009, U.S. politician: congressman 1970–89.
- jazzed up — music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
- jazzed-up — made more exciting and more modern