8-letter words containing a, s, h, p, i
- hipflask — Alternative spelling of hip flask.
- hispania — Spain.
- hispanic — Spanish.
- hispano- — Hispanic
- hospital — an institution in which sick or injured persons are given medical or surgical treatment.
- hyposmia — A reduced ability to smell and to detect odours.
- in phase — having the same phase.
- in shape — person: physically fit
- isograph — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- isopachs — Plural form of isopach.
- isophane — (uncountable, medicine) A synthetic form of insulin used to treat diabetes.
- ladyship — (often initial capital letter) the form used in speaking of or to a woman having the title of Lady (usually preceded by her or your).
- mageship — the role or office of a mage
- mateship — the state of being a mate.
- mispatch — to patch wrongly
- misshape — to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
- nishapur — a town in NE Iran: the birthplace of Omar Khayyám.
- opsimath — (rare) A person who learns late in life.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed., 2004.
- padishah — (often initial capital letter) great king; emperor (a title applied especially formerly to the shah of Iran, the sultan of Turkey, and to the British sovereign as emperor in India).
- papisher — a Roman Catholic
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- parishen — a parishioner
- pashalik — the territory governed by a pasha.
- pashmina — a fabric or garment made from pashm, especially a shawl, wrap, or scarf.
- pasiphae — Classical Mythology. the wife of Minos, mother of Ariadne, and mother of the Minotaur by the Cretan bull.
- pasithea — one of the Graces.
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- pathosis — a diseased condition.
- peatship — the state of being a peat
- peshitta — the principal Syriac version of the Bible.
- phaistos — an ancient city in S central Crete: site of Minoan palace; Linear A tablets and important pottery objects unearthed here.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- pisshead — a drunkard
- pistache — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
- plainish — rather ordinary-looking
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
- 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