7-letter words containing h, e, r, p
- nephro- — kidney or kidneys
- nephron — the filtering and excretory unit of the kidney, consisting of the glomerulus and tubules.
- nephros — (anatomy) A kidney-like organ.
- oophore — (biology) A form of some ferns and mosses that bear sexual fruit.
- 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.
- panther — the cougar or puma, Felis concolor.
- parched — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- pechora — a river in the NE Russian Federation in Europe, flowing from the Ural Mountains to the Arctic Ocean. 1110 miles (1785 km) long.
- penrith — a market town in NW England, in Cumbria. Pop: 14 471 (2001)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- philter — a potion, charm, or drug supposed to cause the person taking it to fall in love, usually with some specific person.
- philtre — philter.
- 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.
- phorate — a systemic insecticide, C 7 H 1 7 O 2 PS 3 , used especially as a soil treatment for the control of numerous crop-damaging insects.
- phoresy — (among insects and arachnids) a nonparasitic relationship in which one species is carried about by another.
- phrased — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrases — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrenic — Anatomy. of or relating to the diaphragm.
- phreno- — mind or brain
- phrensy — frenzy
- pilcher — a scabbard for a sword, or a similar outer covering
- pincher — a person or thing that pinches.
- pitcher — Molly (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) 1754–1832, American Revolutionary heroine.
- plasher — a person who forms hedges by means of interweaving the branches or vines
- poacher — a pan having a tight-fitting lid and metal cups for steaming or poaching eggs.
- poehler — Amy, born 1971, American comedian, known primarily for her work on NBC's Saturday Night Live and her role as Leslie Knope in the TV series Parks and Recreation.
- potherb — any herb prepared as food by cooking in a pot, as spinach, or added as seasoning in cookery, as thyme.
- pothery — humid; stuffy
- pradesh — a state, esp a state in the Union of India
- preachy — tediously or pretentiously didactic.
- preheat — to heat before using or before subjecting to some further process: to preheat an oven before baking a cake.
- prehend — to take hold of
- preship — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- preshow — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- prewash — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
- prithee — pray thee; please
- proesch — Gilbert. Born 1942, an Italian artist who is noted esp for his photomontages and performance works with George Passmore
- prophet — a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
- psather — (language) A parallel extension of Sather for a clustered shared memory model. It features threads synchronised by monitor objects ("gates"); locality assertions and placement operators. There is an implementation for the CM-5.