9-letter words containing a, p, h
- superheat — the state of being superheated.
- swampfish — a small fish, Chologaster cornuta, related to the cavefishes, inhabiting swamps and streams of the Atlantic coastal plain, having small but functional eyes and almost transparent skin.
- swap shop — a store or shop where items, especially secondhand ones, are traded or sold.
- sweatshop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
- sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sympathin — a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline
- symphonia — any of various medieval musical instruments, as the hurdy-gurdy.
- synalepha — the blending of two successive vowels into one, especially the coalescence of a vowel at the end of one word with a vowel at the beginning of the next.
- syphiloma — a tumour or gumma caused by infection with syphilis
- table-hop — to move about in a restaurant, nightclub, or the like, chatting with people at various tables.
- tachypnea — excessively rapid respiration.
- talk shop — a retail store, especially a small one.
- tall ship — type of large sailing ship
- tallyshop — a store specializing in selling merchandise on the hire-purchase system.
- tap shoes — shoes worn by tap-dancers which are equipped with taps that make a rhythmic sound when the shoes are used for dancing
- tape echo — a means of delaying the repeat of a sound by adjusting the time lapse between the recording and playback heads of a tape recorder
- tape head — a device which converts electrical signals to magnetic fluctuations and back again; used in tape recorders
- taphonomy — the circumstances and processes of fossilization.
- telegraph — an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
- telepathy — communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception.
- telophase — the final stage of meiosis or mitosis, in which the separated chromosomes reach the opposite poles of the dividing cell and the nuclei of the daughter cells form around the two sets of chromosomes.
- tephigram — a chart depicting variations in atmospheric conditions relative to altitude
- thaneship — thanage.
- the apple — Big Apple
- the gapes — a disease of young poultry and birds, characterized by gasping and choking and caused by gapeworms
- the pinta — one of the three ships commanded by Columbus on his first voyage to America (1492)
- the strap — a beating with a strap as a punishment
- the-wasps — a satirical comedy (422 b.c.) by Aristophanes.
- theopathy — religious emotion excited by the contemplation of God.
- theophagy — the sacramental eating of a god
- theophany — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
- therapist — a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.
- therapsid — any of various groups of mammallike reptiles of the extinct order Therapsida, inhabiting all continents from mid-Permian to late Triassic times, some of which were probably warm-blooded and directly ancestral to mammals.
- thraiping — a thrashing
- threepeat — to win a third consecutive victory.
- tomograph — a machine for making an x-ray of a selected plane of the body.
- top whack — the maximum price
- top-heavy — having the top disproportionately heavy; liable to fall from too great weight above.
- tophamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.
- topograph — a type of x-ray photograph of land surfaces
- toxaphene — an amber, waxy, water-insoluble solid, whose principal constituent is chlorinated camphene, used as an insecticide and as a rodenticide.
- tragelaph — a mythical animal that is a cross between a goat and a stag
- transship — to transfer from one ship, truck, freight car, or other conveyance to another.
- trap shot — half volley.
- traplight — a lighting device used to trap insects, especially moths.
- triphasic — having or existing in three phases.
- triumphal — of, pertaining to, celebrating, or commemorating a triumph or victory: a triumphal banquet; a triumphal ode.
- trophaeum — tropaeum.
- two-phase — diphase.
- typhoidal — of, relating to, or resembling typhoid.