8-letter words containing h, i, p, s, o
- mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- moonship — a lunar module
- morphism — (mathematics, formally) an arrow in a category.
- mosh pit — Slang. an area usually in front of a stage where people mosh at rock concerts.
- ophidism — Poisoning by snake venom.
- opsimath — (rare) A person who learns late in life.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed., 2004.
- pathosis — a diseased condition.
- phaistos — an ancient city in S central Crete: site of Minoan palace; Linear A tablets and important pottery objects unearthed here.
- phimosis — constriction of the orifice of the prepuce so as to prevent the foreskin from being drawn back to uncover the glans penis.
- phoniest — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- physico- — physical, physical and
- physiol. — physiological
- phytosis — a disease which is caused by a vegetable parasite, for example a fungus
- piroshki — small turnovers or dumplings with a filling, as of meat or fruit.
- pishogue — sorcery; witchcraft; black magic.
- pisolith — a pea-size calcareous concretion, larger than an oolith, aggregates of which constitute a pisolite.
- pochismo — an English word or expression borrowed into Spanish; a Spanish word showing U.S. influence.
- poetship — the state or function of being poet
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- polglish — informal Polish containing a high proportion of words of English origin
- polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
- polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- popeship — the office of a pope
- porkfish — a black and gold grunt, Anisotremus virginicus, of West Indian waters.
- postiche — superadded, especially inappropriately, as a sculptural or architectural ornament.
- proudish — rather proud
- prowfish — a fish, Zaprora silenus, of the North Pacific.
- psychoid — the innate impetus to perform actions
- repolish — a repolishing, the action of polishing again
- rhizopus — any zygomycetous fungus of the genus Rhizopus, esp R. nigricans, a bread mould
- rose hip — hip2 .
- scaphoid — boat-shaped; navicular.
- ship out — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- shipload — a full load for a ship.
- shipworm — any of various wormlike marine bivalve mollusks that burrow into the timbers of ship, wharves, etc.
- shopgirl — a salesgirl; female store clerk.
- shoplift — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- shopping — a retail store, especially a small one.
- siphoned — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- siphonet — (of aphids) a small siphon on the abdomen by which an aphid emits sticky liquid
- slipshod — careless, untidy, or slovenly: slipshod work.
- soapdish — a shallow container for a bar of soap, used in a bathroom
- soapfish — any of several serranid fishes of the genus Rypticus, producing a body mucus that gives the skin a soapy quality, as R. saponaceus, inhabiting shallow waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
- sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
- sopherim — scribe1 (def 3).
- sophists — (often initial capital letter) Greek History. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
- sphenoid — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
- spoffish — officious or bustling
- strophic — Also, strophical. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.