9-letter words containing h, e, m, a, p
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- pantheism — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- pararhyme — a part-rhyme in which the consonants are the same but the vowels are different
- parchment — the skin of sheep, goats, etc., prepared for use as a material on which to write.
- peshmerga — a member of the armed forces in the autonomous Kurdish-controlled region of NE Iraq
- petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
- phagosome — a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
- phenakism — a form of deceit or craftiness
- 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.
- phenomena — a plural of phenomenon.
- philomela — the nightingale.
- phraseman — a man who coins or uses clever phrases
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- semaphore — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- shampooed — to wash (the head or hair), especially with a cleaning preparation that does not leave a soap film.
- steamship — a large commercial vessel, especially one driven by steam.
- tephigram — a chart depicting variations in atmospheric conditions relative to altitude
- tophamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.
- trophaeum — tropaeum.
- whitedamp — a poisonous coal-mine gas composed chiefly of carbon monoxide.