9-letter words containing h, c, p, r
- percheron — one of a French breed of draft horses, having a gray or black coat.
- perthitic — relating to, consisting of, or having a similarity to perthite
- petrichor — a distinctive scent, usually described as earthy, pleasant, or sweet, produced by rainfall on very dry ground.
- pharaonic — (sometimes lowercase) of or like a Pharaoh: living in Pharaonic splendor.
- pharisaic — of or relating to the Pharisees.
- pharmaco- — indicating drugs
- 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.
- phrenetic — frenetic.
- phylarchy — a government led by a phylarch
- pie chart — a graphic representation of quantitative information by means of a circle divided into sectors, in which the relative sizes of the areas (or central angles) of the sectors correspond to the relative sizes or proportions of the quantities.
- pikeperch — any of several pikelike fishes of the perch family, especially the walleye, Stizostedion vitreum.
- pinch bar — a kind of crowbar or lever with a projection that serves as a fulcrum.
- pinwrench — wrench with a projection to fit a hole
- pitch for — If someone is pitching for something, they are trying to persuade other people to give it to them.
- pitchfork — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- plethoric — overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- polyarchy — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- porchetta — Italian boneless stuffed pork cut from a whole roast pig
- pork chop — cutlet of pig meat
- porphyric — of or relating to porphyria
- postcrash — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a crash
- pothecary — apothecary.
- pracharak — (in India) a person appointed to propagate a cause through personal contact, meetings, public lectures, etc
- praiseach — a type of porridge made with oatmeal
- pratchett — Sir Terence (David John), known as Terry. (1948–2015), British writer, noted for his comic fantasy novels in the Discworld series
- pre-chart — a sheet exhibiting information in tabular form.
- preachify — to preach in an obtrusive or tedious way.
- preachily — in a preachy fashion
- preaching — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- precharge — (storage) The phase in the access cycle of DRAM during which the storage capacitors are charged to the appropriate value.
- prechoose — to choose in advance
- prechosen — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- prelaunch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
- preschool — of, relating to, or intended for a child between infancy and school age: new methods of preschool education.
- presearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
- pritchett — Sir V(ictor) S(awdon) [sawd-n] /ˈsɔd n/ (Show IPA), 1900–97, English literary critic, journalist, novelist, and short-story writer.
- prochurch — favourable to the church
- promachos — a defender or champion
- prophasic — relating to the first stage of nuclear division
- prophetic — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- prothetic — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- purchased — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- purchaser — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- push-card — punchboard.
- pushchair — A pushchair is a small chair on wheels, in which a baby or small child can sit and be wheeled around.
- pyracanth — a thorny evergreen shrub of the genus Pyracantha, related to the hawthorn