9-letter words containing g, o, p, h
- phagosome — a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
- pharyngo- — pharynx
- phellogen — cork cambium, a layer of tissue or secondary meristem external to the true cambium, giving rise to cork tissue.
- phenogram — a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.
- phenology — the science dealing with the influence of climate on the recurrence of such annual phenomena of animal and plant life as budding and bird migrations.
- philogyny — love of or liking for women.
- philology — the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.
- phone tag — telephone tag.
- phonogram — a unit symbol of a phonetic writing system, standing for a speech sound, syllable, or other sequence of speech sounds without reference to meaning.
- phonology — the study of the distribution and patterning of speech sounds in a language and of the tacit rules governing pronunciation.
- photalgia — pain, as in an eye, that is caused by intensity of light.
- photogene — an afterimage on the retina.
- photogram — a silhouette photograph made by placing an object directly on sensitized paper and exposing it to light.
- phycology — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- phylogeny — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- phytology — botany.
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- plough on — If you plough on, you continue moving or trying to complete something, even though it takes a lot of effort to go on.
- plough up — If someone ploughs up an area of land, they plough it, usually in order to turn it into land used for growing crops.
- ploughboy — a boy who guides the animals drawing a plough
- ploughing — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- ploughman — A ploughman is a man whose job it is to plough the land, especially with a plough pulled by horses or oxen.
- plowright — Dame Joan. born 1929, British actress, married to Laurence Olivier (1961–89)
- polygraph — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polyphagy — an insatiable appetite
- ponograph — an instrument for graphically recording pain or muscular fatigue.
- pothering — commotion; uproar.
- potholing — exploring caves
- poyang hu — lake in N Jiangxi province, SE China: c. 1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km)
- pregrowth — the period before something begins to grow
- prognathy — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- pronghorn — a fleet, antelopelike ruminant, Antilocapra americana, of the plains of western North America: now greatly reduced in number and endangered in some areas.
- psychogas — a gas with a mind-altering effect
- putonghua — the form of Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, adopted as the official national language of China.
- pyrograph — an object ornamented by pyrography.
- rogueship — the state or quality of being a rogue or rogueish
- rotograph — a photograph, esp of a manuscript or book, which is printed white on black
- sheep-dog — a dog trained to herd and guard sheep.
- siphonage — the action of a siphon.
- siphoning — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- sonograph — an instrument that produces a graphic representation of sound.
- sphagnous — pertaining to, abounding in, or consisting of sphagnum.
- sphygmoid — resembling the pulse; pulselike.
- spotlight — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
- stoplight — traffic light.
- syphoning — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- theophagy — the sacramental eating of a god
- tightrope — a rope or wire cable, stretched tight, on which acrobats perform feats of balancing.
- tomograph — a machine for making an x-ray of a selected plane of the body.
- topograph — a type of x-ray photograph of land surfaces