7-letter words containing h, e, p
- nymphet — a young nymph.
- omphale — a queen of Lydia, whom Hercules was required to serve as a slave to atone for the murder of Iphitus
- oophore — (biology) A form of some ferns and mosses that bear sexual fruit.
- oophyte — the gametophyte of a moss, fern, or liverwort, resulting from the development of a fertilized egg.
- openeth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of open.
- ophelia — a female given name.
- orphean — Greek Legend. a poet and musician, a son of Calliope, who followed his dead wife, Eurydice, to the underworld. By charming Hades, he obtained permission to lead her away, provided he did not look back at her until they returned to earth. But at the last moment he looked, and she was lost to him forever.
- orpheus — Greek Legend. a poet and musician, a son of Calliope, who followed his dead wife, Eurydice, to the underworld. By charming Hades, he obtained permission to lead her away, provided he did not look back at her until they returned to earth. But at the last moment he looked, and she was lost to him forever.
- orphrey — an ornamental band or border, especially on an ecclesiastical vestment.
- panache — a grand or flamboyant manner; verve; style; flair: The actor who would play Cyrano must have panache.
- panhead — a rivet or screw head having the form of a truncated cone.
- panoche — Also, penuche. a coarse grade of sugar made in Mexico.
- panther — the cougar or puma, Felis concolor.
- parched — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- patched — repaired with patches; covered with patches
- patchen — Kenneth, 1911–72, U.S. poet and novelist.
- peakish — to become weak, thin, and sickly.
- pechora — a river in the NE Russian Federation in Europe, flowing from the Ural Mountains to the Arctic Ocean. 1110 miles (1785 km) long.
- peckish — somewhat hungry: By noon we were feeling a bit peckish.
- peevish — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
- pehlevi — the Pahlavi language.
- peishwa — a leader of the Maratha people
- penrith — a market town in NW England, in Cumbria. Pop: 14 471 (2001)
- penuche — Also, panocha. Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. a fudgelike candy made of brown sugar, butter, and milk, usually with nuts.
- perahia — Murray, born 1947, U.S. pianist.
- perched — a pole or rod, usually horizontal, serving as a roost for birds.
- percher — a person or thing that perches.
- perches — a former division of N France.
- perchta — the goddess of death and of fertility: sometimes identified with Holle.
- perhaps — maybe; possibly: Perhaps the package will arrive today.
- perkish — to become lively, cheerful, or vigorous, as after depression or sickness (usually followed by up): The patients all perked up when we played the piano for them.
- peshito — the standard translation of the Old and New Testaments in ancient Syriac
- pettish — easily irritated, sulky
- phablet — a mobile device that combines the features of a smartphone and a tablet computer and is larger than a typical smartphone but not as large as a typical small tablet.
- phacker — (communications, security) A telephone system cracker. A phacker may attempt to gain unauthorised access to a phone system in order to make free or untraceable calls or he may disrupt, alter or illegally tap phone systems via computer. The disruptions may include causing a phone line to be engaged so no calls go in or out, redirecting outgoing or incoming calls, as well as listening to actual calls made. Phackers are frequently confidence tricksters or phone freaks (nuisance callers who can only relate to other people by phone). Phackers are sometimes employed by illegal enterprises to conduct business using untraceable calls, or to disrupt, or follow legal authorities' investigations. Phackers interventions may be lethal to the person being phacked. A phacker may be a phone company employee, or usually, ex-employee who specialises in illegal phone system disruption, alteration or tapping via physically altering installations. A phacker is generally considered to be a socially and intellectually retarded cracker. See Captain Crunch.
- phaedra — the wife of Theseus who fell in love with Hippolytus, her stepson, and eventually hanged herself after causing his death.
- phaenna — one of the Graces worshiped at Sparta.
- phaeton — any of various light, four-wheeled carriages, with or without a top, having one or two seats facing forward, used in the 19th century.
- phalera — a metal disk or boss worn on a man's breast as an ornament or as a military decoration or used to adorn the harness of a horse.
- phaseal — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phellem — cork (def 6).
- phenate — a phenic acid salt
- phenoxy — containing the monovalent radical C6H5O, derived from phenol
- philem. — Philemon
- philter — a potion, charm, or drug supposed to cause the person taking it to fall in love, usually with some specific person.
- philtre — philter.
- phineas — a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “serpent's mouth or oracle.”.
- phineus — a brother of Cepheus who was not brave enough to rescue his betrothed Andromeda from a sea monster and who was eventually turned to stone.
- phisher — to try to obtain financial or other confidential information from Internet users, typically by sending an email that looks as if it is from a legitimate organization, usually a financial institution, but contains a link to a fake website that replicates the real one.
- phlebo- — indicating a vein