9-letter words containing h, i, p, a
- sophonias — Zephaniah.
- spaceship — spacecraft.
- spadefish — a deep-bodied marine fish of the genus Chaetodipterus, especially C. faber, of Atlantic coastal waters of North America.
- spaghetti — a white, starchy pasta of Italian origin that is made in the form of long strings, boiled, and served with any of a variety of meat, tomato, or other sauces.
- spanglish — Spanish spoken with a large admixture of English, especially American, words and expressions.
- spearfish — fish: type of marlin
- sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
- spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- spinebash — to rest; loaf.
- steamship — a large commercial vessel, especially one driven by steam.
- stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
- stephanie — a female given name.
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- swampfish — a small fish, Chologaster cornuta, related to the cavefishes, inhabiting swamps and streams of the Atlantic coastal plain, having small but functional eyes and almost transparent skin.
- sympathin — a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline
- symphonia — any of various medieval musical instruments, as the hurdy-gurdy.
- syphiloma — a tumour or gumma caused by infection with syphilis
- tall ship — type of large sailing ship
- tephigram — a chart depicting variations in atmospheric conditions relative to altitude
- thaneship — thanage.
- the pinta — one of the three ships commanded by Columbus on his first voyage to America (1492)
- therapist — a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.
- therapsid — any of various groups of mammallike reptiles of the extinct order Therapsida, inhabiting all continents from mid-Permian to late Triassic times, some of which were probably warm-blooded and directly ancestral to mammals.
- thraiping — a thrashing
- transship — to transfer from one ship, truck, freight car, or other conveyance to another.
- traplight — a lighting device used to trap insects, especially moths.
- triphasic — having or existing in three phases.
- triumphal — of, pertaining to, celebrating, or commemorating a triumph or victory: a triumphal banquet; a triumphal ode.
- typhoidal — of, relating to, or resembling typhoid.
- typhonian — of or relating to Typhon
- unhappily — sad; miserable; wretched: Why is she so unhappy?
- upaithric — without a roof
- upanishad — any of a class of speculative prose treatises composed between the 8th and 6th centuries b.c. and first written a.d. c1300: they represent a philosophical development beyond the Vedas, having as their principal message the unity of Brahman and Atman.
- uplandish — of or relating to the uplands
- upmanship — one-upmanship.
- vampirish — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vampishly — in a vampish manner
- vibraharp — a musical percussion instrument that resembles a marimba and is played with mallets, but that has metal instead of wooden bars and has a set of electrically powered resonators for sustaining the tone or creating a vibrato.
- vitaphone — an early technique in commercial film-making in which the accompanying sound was produced by discs
- wash-wipe — a windscreen wiper
- waspishly — In a waspish manner.
- wear ship — to change the tack of a sailing vessel, esp a square-rigger, by coming about so that the wind passes astern
- whip hand — the hand that holds the whip, in driving.
- whipcrack — The crack of a whip.
- whipsawed — subjected to a double loss, as when an investor has bought a stock at a high price soon before it declines and then, in order to make good the loss, sells it short before it advances.
- whipsnake — any of several long, slender New World snakes of the genus Masticophis, the tail of which resembles a whip.
- whipstaff — a bar attached to a ship's tiller to assist with steering
- whipstall — a stall during a vertical climb in which the nose of the airplane falls forward and downward in a whiplike movement.
- whiptails — Plural form of whiptail.
- whitecaps — Plural form of whitecap.