8-letter words containing h, i, p, a, r
- perianth — the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- 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.
- pharming — the process of producing medically useful products from genetically modified plants and animals.
- phrasing — 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.
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
- pilchard — a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.
- pith ray — medullary ray.
- potiphar — the Egyptian officer whose wife tried to seduce Joseph. Gen. 39:1–20.
- prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
- prichard — a city in S Alabama.
- raphania — a type of ergotism possibly resulting from ingestion of the poison from radish seeds
- rathripe — mature or ripe ahead of time
- rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
- samphire — a European succulent plant, Crithmum maritimum, of the parsley family, having compound leaves and small, whitish flowers, growing in clefts of rock near the sea.
- sapphira — a woman who, with her husband, Ananias, was struck dead for lying. Acts 5.
- sapphire — any gem variety of corundum other than the ruby, especially one of the blue varieties.
- sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
- seraphic — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- seraphim — a plural of seraph.
- seraphin — a silver coin which formed the principal currency of Goa in the 16th century
- shar pei — one of a Chinese breed of large muscular dogs having a distinctive wrinkly skin covered by a fawn to dark brown smooth coat, originally developed as a guard dog.
- shar-pei — one of a Chinese breed of large muscular dogs having a distinctive wrinkly skin covered by a fawn to dark brown smooth coat, originally developed as a guard dog.
- sharping — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
- sharpish — If you do something sharpish, you do it quickly, without any delay.
- shipyard — a yard or enclosure in which ships are built or repaired.
- sphairee — a game resembling tennis played with wooden bats and a perforated plastic ball, devised by F. A. Beck in 1961
- starship — a spaceship designed for intergalactic travel.
- teraphim — small images or other things representing household gods, used among ancient Semitic peoples
- tranship — transship
- trigraph — a group of three letters representing a single speech sound, as eau in beau.
- triphase — operating in three phases
- ultrahip — extremely trendy or fashionable
- vaporish — of the nature of or resembling vapor: a vaporish chiffon dress.
- wardship — guardianship; custody.
- warships — Plural form of warship.
- zipporah — the daughter of Jethro and the wife of Moses. Ex. 2:21.