8-letter words containing d, a, p, h
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hardpack — a bag that has a rigid shell
- hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
- hardtops — Plural form of hardtop.
- head dip — a maneuver in which a surfer, by squatting and leaning forward on the surfboard, partially dips his or her head into the wall of a wave.
- headlamp — headlight.
- headrope — the part of a bolt-rope attached to the head of a sail
- heads-up — first in rank or position; chief; leading; principal: a head official.
- headship — the position of head or chief; chief authority; leadership; supremacy.
- helipads — Plural form of helipad.
- hexapods — Plural form of hexapod.
- hexapody — a measure consisting of six feet.
- hopheads — (slang) Plural form of hophead.
- hospodar — a former title of governors or princes of Wallachia and Moldavia.
- hump day — Wednesday
- hydropac — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Pacific Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- hypoacid — relating to a lower than normal level of acidity
- l-shaped — having the shape of the letter L
- 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).
- nap hand — a position in which there is a very good chance of success if a risk is taken
- o-shaped — resembling the rounded form of the letter O
- odograph — a recording odometer.
- old chap — (used in informal direct address to a man of any age).
- ophidian — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Ophidia (Serpentes), comprising the snakes.
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- pad thai — a Thai dish of stir-fried rice noodles, fish sauce and other seasonings, and usually tofu, shrimp, bean sprouts, and peanuts.
- 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).
- pagehood — the office of, or state of being, a page
- pan head — a tripod head permitting vertical or horizontal rotation of a camera to any position.
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- pashadom — the office or territory of a pasha
- paunched — a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- phalloid — having the form of or bearing a similarity to a penis
- pheidias — Phidias
- 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
- play-doh — Play-Doh is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
- pleached — having interlaced stems or boughs
- predeath — occurring before or in the lead-up to death; of or pertaining to the period immediately prior to death
- prichard — a city in S Alabama.
- pthreads — POSIX Threads
- pushcard — punchboard.
- randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
- rhapsody — Music. an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation.
- sandheap — a heap of sand
- scaphoid — boat-shaped; navicular.