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8-letter words containing a, p, h, i

  • pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
  • pharming — the process of producing medically useful products from genetically modified plants and animals.
  • phase in — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
  • phase-in — an act or instance of phasing in; gradual introduction or implementation.
  • pheidias — Phidias
  • phenicia — an ancient kingdom on the Mediterranean, in the region of modern Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
  • philabeg — filibeg.
  • philippa — a female given name: derived from Philip.
  • photinia — any of various trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Photinia, of the rose family, having clusters of small white flowers and red, berrylike fruit.
  • photopia — vision in bright light (opposed to scotopia).
  • phrasing — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
  • phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
  • phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
  • phthalic — of or derived from phthalic acid.
  • phthalin — any of a group of compounds obtained by the reduction of the phthaleins.
  • phylaxis — medical term for protection against infection
  • physalia — a marine invertebrate, often confused with a jellyfish, that has a painful sting
  • physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
  • pilchard — a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.
  • pillhead — a person who habitually takes pills, especially amphetamines or barbiturates.
  • pisshead — a drunkard
  • pistache — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
  • pitahaya — any of several cacti of the genus Lemaireocereus and related genera, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, bearing edible fruit.
  • pitchman — an itinerant vendor of small wares that are usually carried in a case with collapsible legs, allowing it to be set up or removed quickly.
  • pith ray — medullary ray.
  • pithball — a small ball of pith suspended on a thread inside an early type of electroscope that would indicate the presence and strength of electric charge in an object near or touching it
  • plainish — rather ordinary-looking
  • plashing — a gentle splash.
  • poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
  • potiphar — the Egyptian officer whose wife tried to seduce Joseph. Gen. 39:1–20.
  • prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
  • prichard — a city in S Alabama.
  • raphania — a type of ergotism possibly resulting from ingestion of the poison from radish seeds
  • rathripe — mature or ripe ahead of time
  • rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
  • sahaptin — a member of an American Indian people of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
  • samphire — a European succulent plant, Crithmum maritimum, of the parsley family, having compound leaves and small, whitish flowers, growing in clefts of rock near the sea.
  • sapphira — a woman who, with her husband, Ananias, was struck dead for lying. Acts 5.
  • sapphire — any gem variety of corundum other than the ruby, especially one of the blue varieties.
  • sapphism — lesbianism.
  • sapphist — a lesbian
  • scampish — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
  • scaphoid — boat-shaped; navicular.
  • sea whip — a gorgonian coral that forms a flexible colony resembling shrubbery on the ocean floor.
  • sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
  • seraphic — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
  • seraphim — a plural of seraph.
  • seraphin — a silver coin which formed the principal currency of Goa in the 16th century
  • shagpile — (of a carpet or rug) having long, rough fibres
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