9-letter words containing a, p, h
- typhonian — of or relating to Typhon
- typograph — a machine for creating indentations of characters upon a sheet of metal from which prints can be made
- ultraposh — extremely posh
- unhappily — sad; miserable; wretched: Why is she so unhappy?
- unpatched — a small piece of material used to mend a tear or break, to cover a hole, or to strengthen a weak place: patches at the elbows of a sports jacket.
- unshapely — not shapely
- up-anchor — to weigh anchor.
- upaithric — without a roof
- upanishad — any of a class of speculative prose treatises composed between the 8th and 6th centuries b.c. and first written a.d. c1300: they represent a philosophical development beyond the Vedas, having as their principal message the unity of Brahman and Atman.
- updraught — an upward movement of air or other gas
- uplandish — of or relating to the uplands
- upmanship — one-upmanship.
- ursprache — a hypothetically reconstructed parent language, as Proto-Germanic, the ancestor of the Germanic languages.
- vampirish — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vampishly — in a vampish manner
- vibraharp — a musical percussion instrument that resembles a marimba and is played with mallets, but that has metal instead of wooden bars and has a set of electrically powered resonators for sustaining the tone or creating a vibrato.
- vitaphone — an early technique in commercial film-making in which the accompanying sound was produced by discs
- wahpekute — a member of a North American Indian people belonging to the Santee branch of the Dakota.
- war whoop — a yell uttered in making an attack: the war whoop of the American Indian.
- wash-wipe — a windscreen wiper
- washed up — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, etc.; washable: a wash dress.
- washed-up — done for; having failed completely.
- waspishly — In a waspish manner.
- watch cap — U.S. Navy. a dark-blue, knitted woolen cap with a turned-up cuff worn by enlisted personnel on duty in cold weather.
- wear ship — to change the tack of a sailing vessel, esp a square-rigger, by coming about so that the wind passes astern
- whakapapa — Genealogy, a fundamental principle of M\u0101ori culture that is critical in establishing one's identity.
- whip hand — the hand that holds the whip, in driving.
- whipcrack — The crack of a whip.
- whipsawed — subjected to a double loss, as when an investor has bought a stock at a high price soon before it declines and then, in order to make good the loss, sells it short before it advances.
- whipsnake — any of several long, slender New World snakes of the genus Masticophis, the tail of which resembles a whip.
- whipstaff — a bar attached to a ship's tiller to assist with steering
- whipstall — a stall during a vertical climb in which the nose of the airplane falls forward and downward in a whiplike movement.
- whiptails — Plural form of whiptail.
- whitecaps — Plural form of whitecap.
- whitedamp — a poisonous coal-mine gas composed chiefly of carbon monoxide.
- wind harp — aeolian harp.
- xanthippe — flourished late 5th century b.c, wife of Socrates.
- xerograph — A photocopy produced by xerography.
- xerophagy — a Lenten fast observed especially during Holy Week, constituting the strictest fast in the Eastern Church.
- xiphoidal — shaped like a sword
- xiphopagi — Siamese twins joined at the lower sternum
- xylograph — An engraving in wood, especially one used for printing.
- xylophage — any insect or organism that eats wood
- zephaniah — a Minor Prophet of the 7th century b.c.
- zephyrean — of, relating to, or like a zephyr; full of or containing light breezes.
- zephyrian — of, relating to, or like a zephyr; full of or containing light breezes.
- zoography — the branch of zoology dealing with the description of animals.
- zoophagan — a carnivorous animal
- zoophagia — (pathology) The act of eating living creatures.
- zoophilia — the state of being zoophilous.