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9-letter words containing h, o, p, e, a

  • orthopnea — difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
  • osteopath — a physician who practices osteopathy.
  • outpreach — to outdo in preaching or overcome by preaching
  • overcheap — too cheap
  • overhappy — too happy
  • oversharp — too sharp
  • packhorse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
  • paleolith — a paleolithic stone implement.
  • palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
  • panchetto — a Renaissance chair having three splayed legs and a shaped back joined into a solid wooden seat.
  • panthenol — pantothenyl alcohol
  • pantihose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
  • pantyhose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
  • parhelion — a bright circular spot on a solar halo; a mock sun: usually one of two or more such spots seen on opposite sides of the sun, and often accompanied by additional luminous arcs and bands.
  • parocheth — a richly embroidered curtain that hangs in front of the Holy Ark in a synagogue.
  • parokheth — a richly embroidered curtain that hangs in front of the Holy Ark in a synagogue.
  • parthenon — the temple of Athena Parthenos on the Acropolis at Athens, completed c438 b.c. by Ictinus and Callicrates and decorated by Phidias: regarded as the finest Doric temple.
  • parthenos — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
  • patchogue — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • pathocure — Psychiatry. cessation of a neurosis with the appearance of an organic disease.
  • pathogens — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
  • pathogeny — the production and development of disease.
  • pay phone — a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.
  • peachblow — a delicate purplish pink.
  • peak-hour — during the busiest hours; used esp of traffic and demand for gas, electricity etc
  • pedograph — an imprint on paper of the foot.
  • phacolite — a colorless variety of chabazite.
  • phagocyte — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
  • phagosome — a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
  • phalarope — any of three species of small, aquatic birds of the family Phalaropodidae, resembling sandpipers but having lobate toes.
  • phase out — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
  • phasedown — an act or instance of phasing down; gradual reduction.
  • phaseolin — a type of proteid that is present in the kidney bean
  • phenogram — a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.
  • phenolate — Also called phenoxide. a salt of phenol, as sodium phenolate, C 6 H 5 ONa.
  • phenomena — a plural of phenomenon.
  • philomela — the nightingale.
  • philopena — a custom, presumably of German origin, in which two persons share the kernels of a nut and determine that one shall receive a forfeit from the other at a later time upon the saying of a certain word or the performance of a certain action.
  • phoenicia — an ancient kingdom on the Mediterranean, in the region of modern Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
  • phone tag — telephone tag.
  • phone tap — an instance of listening secretly, usually illegally, to someone's phone conversations using special electronic equipment
  • phonecard — calling card (def 3).
  • phosphate — Chemistry. (loosely) a salt or ester of phosphoric acid. a tertiary salt of orthophosphoric acid, as sodium phosphate.
  • playhouse — a theater.
  • plekhanov — Georgi (or Georgy) Valentinovich [gyi-awr-gyee-vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh-vyich] /gyɪˈɔr gyi və lyɪnˈtyi nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1857–1918, Russian philosopher and leader of the Mensheviks.
  • plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
  • poachable — able to be poached
  • podotheca — the horny integument covering unfeathered portions of the legs and toes of most birds.
  • polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
  • polyphase — having more than one phase.
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