8-letter words containing h, e, r, p
- neomorph — (genetics) a gain of function mutation that causes novel gene function.
- nephrism — chronic kidney disease, renal failure
- nephrite — Mineralogy. a compact or fibrous variety of actinolite, varying from whitish to dark green: a form of jade.
- nephroid — kidney-shaped
- nephrons — Plural form of nephron.
- no-hoper — a useless person from whom nothing can be expected.
- oosphere — an unfertilized egg within an oogonium.
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- orthoepy — the study of correct pronunciation.
- overheap — to supply too much
- overhope — excessive hope
- overhype — to promote excessively
- pamphrey — a cabbage
- panthera — a genus of chiefly large cats that includes the snow leopard, tiger, leopard, jaguar, and lion, most having the ability to roar.
- papisher — a Roman Catholic
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- parishen — a parishioner
- patchery — the act of hurriedly patching something together
- pear haw — a shrub or small tree, Crataegus uniflora, of the eastern and southern coastal areas of the U.S., having pear-shaped, orange-red fruit.
- pearlash — commercial potassium carbonate.
- pentarch — a government by five persons.
- perchery — a barn in which hens are allowed to move without restriction
- perianth — the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- perished — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- perisher — mischievous person
- pershing — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
- perthite — a variety of feldspar containing irregular bands of albite in microcline.
- peshawar — a province in Pakistan, bordering Punjab and Kashmir on the west: a former province of British India. 28,773 sq. mi. (77,516 sq. km). Capital: Peshawar.
- petchary — a grey kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis
- petrarch — (Francesco Petrarca) 1304–74, Italian poet and scholar.
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
- pheresis — apheresis, especially plasmapheresis.
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- phrenism — one of the three vital forces, which are non-physical life forces. Phrenism is the thought force, as opposed to neurism, the nerve force, and bathmism, the growth force.
- physeter — a member of the Physeter genus of creatures that includes the sperm whale
- pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
- piershed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- pinchers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- pinscher — one of a group of related dogs including the Doberman pinscher, miniature pinscher, and affenpinscher.
- pleather — a synthetic leather
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- poechore — a dry region
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- porthole — a round, windowlike opening with a hinged, watertight glass cover in the side of a vessel for admitting air and light. Compare port4 (def 1).
- potholer — an explorer of caves; spelunker.
- potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
- pre-echo — something that has preceded and anticipated something else; precursor
- preacher — a person whose occupation or function it is to preach the gospel.