9-letter words containing p, a, t, h
- hypethral — (of a classical building) wholly or partly open to the sky.
- hyphenate — to join by a hyphen.
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- hyponasty — increased growth along the lower surface of a plant or plant part, causing it to bend upward.
- hypostoma — Hypostome.
- hypotaxis — dependent relation or construction, as of clauses; syntactic subordination.
- hypotheca — (microbiology, planktology) The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate.
- hypotonia — An abnormal loss of muscle tone.
- idiopathy — a disease not preceded or occasioned by any known morbid condition.
- integraph — integrator (def 2).
- isophotal — relating to an isophote or isophotes, or to a diagram on which isophotes are represented
- karpathos — an island off the SE coast of Greece, part of the Dodecanese Islands, in the Aegean Sea. 110 sq. mi. (280 sq. km).
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- lalopathy — any defect of speech.
- lamplight — the light thrown by a lamp.
- lap-chart — a log of every lap covered by each car in a race, showing the exact position throughout
- lymphatic — pertaining to, containing, or conveying lymph.
- mail path — source route
- malt shop — a retail establishment specializing in serving ice-cream drinks, as malted milks, milk shakes, and sodas.
- mast hasp — mast clamp (def 2).
- matchplay — Alternative form of match play.
- mazopathy — mazopathia.
- merneptah — king of ancient Egypt c1225–c1215 b.c. (son of Ramses II).
- metamorph — (biology) An organism that has undergone metamorphosis.
- metaphase — the stage in mitosis or meiosis in which the duplicated chromosomes line up along the equatorial plate of the spindle.
- metaphone — (algorithm, text) An algorithm for encoding a word so that similar sounding words encode the same. It's similar to soundex in purpose, but as it knows the basic rules of English pronunciation it's more accurate. The higher accuracy doesn't come free, though, metaphone requires more computational power as well as more storage capacity, but neither of these requirements are usually prohibitive. It is in the public domain so it can be freely implemented. Metaphone was developed by Lawrence Philips <[email protected]>. It is described in ["Practical Algorithms for Programmers", Binstock & Rex, Addison Wesley, 1995].
- metaphore — Misspelling of metaphor.
- metaphors — 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).
- metaphyte — a multicellular plant.
- mouthpart — Usually, mouthparts. the appendages surrounding or associated with the mouth of arthropods.
- multipath — a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.
- myatrophy — myoatrophy.
- myopathic — Pertaining to myopathy.
- naphthene — any of a group of hydrocarbon ring compounds of the general formula, C n H 2n , derivatives of cyclopentane and cyclohexane, found in certain petroleums.
- naphthols — Plural form of naphthol.
- naphthous — of, relating to or derived from naphtha
- naupathia — (medicine) seasickness.
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- neuropath — A person affected by nervous disease, or with an abnormally sensitive nervous system.
- nightcaps — Plural form of nightcap.
- notaphily — the collecting of bank notes as a hobby.
- oil patch — an area in which oil is produced.
- omphacite — a pale-green variety of pyroxene similar to olivine, found in eclogite.
- opera hat — a man's tall, collapsible top hat, held open or in shape by springs and usually covered with a black, silky fabric. Also called gibus. Compare beaver1 (def 4), silk hat, top hat.
- opthalmic — Misspelling of ophthalmic.
- orthopnea — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
- osteopath — a physician who practices osteopathy.
- outparish — a parish located outside the boundaries of or at a distance from a town or city; an outlying parish.
- outpreach — to outdo in preaching or overcome by preaching