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8-letter words containing h, o, a

  • pawnshop — the shop of a pawnbroker, especially one where unredeemed items are displayed and sold.
  • payphone — a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.
  • peamouth — a minnow, Mylocheilus caurinus, of northwestern U.S. and British Columbian waters.
  • phaethon — a son of Helios who borrowed the chariot of the sun and drove it so close to earth that Zeus struck him down to save the world.
  • phaistos — an ancient city in S central Crete: site of Minoan palace; Linear A tablets and important pottery objects unearthed here.
  • phalloid — having the form of or bearing a similarity to a penis
  • pharaohs — a title of an ancient Egyptian king.
  • phaseout — an act or instance of phasing out; planned discontinuation or expiration.
  • phonecam — a digital camera incorporated in a mobile phone
  • photinia — any of various trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Photinia, of the rose family, having clusters of small white flowers and red, berrylike fruit.
  • photomap — a mosaic of aerial photographs marked as a map, with grid lines, place-names, etc.
  • photopia — vision in bright light (opposed to scotopia).
  • play-doh — Play-Doh is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
  • plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
  • poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
  • polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
  • polymath — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
  • pooh bah — a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
  • pooh-bah — a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
  • postheat — to heat (a metal piece, as a weld) after working, so as to relieve stresses.
  • pot arch — an auxiliary furnace in which pots used in melting frit are preheated.
  • potiphar — the Egyptian officer whose wife tried to seduce Joseph. Gen. 39:1–20.
  • potlatch — (among American Indians of the northern Pacific coast, especially the Kwakiutl) a ceremonial festival at which gifts are bestowed on the guests and property is destroyed by its owner in a show of wealth that the guests later attempt to surpass.
  • powhatan — a member of any of the Indian tribes belonging to the Powhatan Confederacy.
  • prograph — (language)   A visual dataflow programming language and environment from the Technical University of Halifax. Prograph is an entirely graphical visual programming language, other than for the text of method names, and supports the program development process in a highly-interactive fashion. Operation icons are connected by data links through which information flows. It supports object orientation via class-based data abstraction with single inheritance. Prograph is available for the Macintosh, and soon for Windows and Unix, from TGS Systems.
  • prophage — a stable, inherited form of bacteriophage in which the genetic material of the virus is integrated into, replicated, and expressed with the genetic material of the bacterial host.
  • prophase — Cell Biology. the first stage of mitosis or meiosis in eukaryotic cell division, during which the nuclear envelope breaks down and strands of chromatin form into chromosomes.
  • pugachov — Yemelyan Ivanovich. 1726–75, Russian Cossack rebel, leader of a major revolt against the government of Catherine II: executed
  • pyorrhea — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
  • quanzhou — a seaport in SE Fujian province, in SE China, on Taiwan Strait.
  • rabbitoh — (formerly) an itinerant seller of rabbits for eating
  • racahout — a substance similar to chocolate prepared as either a food or drink and made from acorns and cocoa
  • ranchero — a rancher.
  • randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
  • rat-hole — a hole made by a rat, as into a room, barn, etc.: The first chore in the old building is to plug up the ratholes.
  • rathbone — Basil, 1892–1967, English actor, born in South Africa.
  • rathouse — a psychiatric hospital or asylum
  • reaphook — a sickle
  • rehoboam — the successor of Solomon and the first king of Judah, reigned 922?–915? b.c. I Kings 11:43.
  • reproach — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
  • rhabdoid — a rod-shaped structure found in the cells of some plants and animals
  • rhamnose — deoxymannose; a deoxy hexose sugar, C 6 H 1 2 O 5 , that is an important component of the polysaccharides of plant cell walls.
  • rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
  • rhapsody — Music. an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation.
  • rheobase — the minimum electric current required to excite a given nerve or muscle.
  • rheostat — an adjustable resistor so constructed that its resistance may be changed without opening the circuit in which it is connected, thereby controlling the current in the circuit.
  • rhiannon — the wife of Pwyll who, accused of having eaten her son, was forced as a penance to carry people on her back until vindicated by her son's return.
  • rhodanic — of or relating to thiocyanic acid
  • rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
  • rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
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