8-letter words containing h, o, p, e
- nephelo- — clouds, cloudy
- nephroid — kidney-shaped
- nephrons — Plural form of nephron.
- netphone — A telephone that connects through the internet.
- new hope — a town in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- no-hoper — a useless person from whom nothing can be expected.
- o-shaped — resembling the rounded form of the letter O
- oosphere — an unfertilized egg within an oogonium.
- openhole — Openhole describes an uncased (=having no casing or liner) part of a well.
- opheltes — the son of King Lycurgus of Nemea who was killed in infancy by a serpent and in whose memory the Nemean games were held.
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- orthoepy — the study of correct pronunciation.
- overheap — to supply too much
- overhope — excessive hope
- overhype — to promote excessively
- pabouche — a soft shoe
- pagehood — the office of, or state of being, a page
- pahoehoe — basaltic lava having a smooth or billowy surface.
- pancheon — a wide, shallow bowl, originally used for making bread or separating cream
- pantheon — a national monument in Paris, France, used as a sepulcher for eminent French persons, begun in 1764 by Soufflot as the church of Ste. Geneviève and secularized in 1885.
- pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- pathoses — a diseased condition.
- 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.
- peephole — a small hole or opening through which to peep or look, as in a door.
- peepshow — a display of objects or pictures viewed through a small opening that is usually fitted with a magnifying lens.
- pesthole — a place infested with or especially liable to epidemic disease.
- pet shop — a shop selling animals intended as pets
- 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.
- phaseout — an act or instance of phasing out; planned discontinuation or expiration.
- phelloid — having a resemblance to cork
- phenolic — Also called carbolic acid, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid. a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous mass, C 6 H 5 OH, obtained from coal tar, or a hydroxyl derivative of benzene: used chiefly as a disinfectant, as an antiseptic, and in organic synthesis.
- philemon — an Epistle written by Paul. Abbreviation: Phil.
- philomel — the nightingale.
- phleboid — pertaining to or resembling a vein.
- phlegmon — a swollen, red, and painful mass affecting bodily tissue that may progress to abscess
- phone in — If you phone in to a radio or television show, you telephone the show in order to give your opinion on a matter that the show has raised.
- phone up — call on the telephone
- phonecam — a digital camera incorporated in a mobile phone
- phonemes — any of a small set of units, usually about 20 to 60 in number, and different for each language, considered to be the basic distinctive units of speech sound by which morphemes, words, and sentences are represented. They are arrived at for any given language by determining which differences in sound function to indicate a difference in meaning, so that in English the difference in sound and meaning between pit and bit is taken to indicate the existence of different labial phonemes, while the difference in sound between the unaspirated p of spun and the aspirated p of pun, since it is never the only distinguishing feature between two different words, is not taken as ground for setting up two different p phonemes in English. Compare distinctive feature (def 1).
- phonemic — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- phonetic — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- phoniest — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- phosgene — a poisonous, colorless, very volatile liquid or suffocating gas, COCl 2 , a chemical-warfare compound: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- photogen — a light oil obtained by the distillation of bituminous shale, coal, or peat: once commercially produced chiefly as an illuminant and as a solvent.
- photoset — photocompose.
- phyllode — an expanded petiole resembling and having the function of a leaf, but without a true blade.
- phyllome — a leaf of a plant.
- pie-hole — a person's mouth
- pin-hole — a small hole made by or as by a pin.