9-letter words containing d, a, p, h
- phasedown — an act or instance of phasing down; gradual reduction.
- philander — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- pholidota — the order comprising the pangolins.
- phonecard — calling card (def 3).
- photocard — A photocard is a card with a person's photograph on it, which they can use to prove who they are.
- pied shag — a large New Zealand seabird, Phalacrocorax varius, with a white throat and underparts
- pigheaded — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
- pinheaded — stupid or foolish.
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- podotheca — the horny integument covering unfeathered portions of the legs and toes of most birds.
- poppyhead — a finial or other ornament, often richly carved, as the top of the upright end of a bench or pew.
- pre-death — the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism. Compare brain death.
- prehandle — to handle beforehand
- preharden — to harden beforehand
- preshaped — the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
- prewashed — being washed before sale, especially to produce a soft texture or a worn look: prewashed blue jeans.
- printhead — the printing element, as a daisy wheel or thimble, on a computer printer.
- purchased — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- push-card — punchboard.
- put ahead — to reset the hands of (a clock) to a later time
- rhamphoid — beaklike or beak-shaped
- rhapsodic — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rhipidate — shaped like a fan
- road hump — speed bump that slows traffic
- sapheaded — silly; foolish.
- sapphired — blue-coloured
- scaldship — the office of a scald or an ancient Scandinavian poet or bard
- scaphopod — any mollusk of the class Scaphopoda, comprising the tooth shells.
- shampooed — to wash (the head or hair), especially with a cleaning preparation that does not leave a soap film.
- sheephead — a large California food fish, Semicossyphus pulcher, of the wrasse family.
- shipboard — Archaic. the deck or side of a ship. the situation of being on a ship.
- shopboard — a shop counter or work bench
- skaldship — the office of an ancient Scandinavian poet
- sketchpad — sketchbook (def 1).
- soap dish — a dish designed to hold a bar of soap, especially as a bathroom or kitchen fixture attached to a sink, lavatory, or bathtub.
- soap-dish — a dish designed to hold a bar of soap, especially as a bathroom or kitchen fixture attached to a sink, lavatory, or bathtub.
- spadefish — a deep-bodied marine fish of the genus Chaetodipterus, especially C. faber, of Atlantic coastal waters of North America.
- spearhead — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- spreathed — sore; chapped
- tape head — a device which converts electrical signals to magnetic fluctuations and back again; used in tape recorders
- 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.
- typhoidal — of, relating to, or resembling typhoid.
- 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.
- 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
- washed up — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, etc.; washable: a wash dress.
- washed-up — done for; having failed completely.
- whip hand — the hand that holds the whip, in driving.
- 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.