8-letter words containing h, o, p
- overhype — to promote excessively
- pabouche — a soft shoe
- pachinko — a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical machine in which slots struck by the player's ball release other balls that in turn are exchanged for noncash prizes.
- pachouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- pagehood — the office of, or state of being, a page
- pahoehoe — basaltic lava having a smooth or billowy surface.
- pak-choi — bok choy.
- pancheon — a wide, shallow bowl, originally used for making bread or separating cream
- pansophy — universal wisdom or knowledge.
- 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.
- parachor — a scientific quantity defined by a formula involving surface tension, mass, and density
- parochin — a parish
- pashadom — the office or territory of a pasha
- pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- pathoses — a diseased condition.
- pathosis — a diseased condition.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- philomot — having the same colour as that of a dead leaf
- phimosis — constriction of the orifice of the prepuce so as to prevent the foreskin from being drawn back to uncover the glans penis.
- phimotic — constriction of the orifice of the prepuce so as to prevent the foreskin from being drawn back to uncover the glans penis.
- 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.
- phorminx — an ancient Greek stringed musical instrument of the lyre family
- phormium — any plant of the New Zealand bulbous genus Phormium, with leathery evergreen leaves and red or yellow flowers in panicles
- phoronid — any member of the invertebrate phylum Phoronida, wormlike marine animals living in a chitinous tube and having an anterior structure bearing ciliated tentacles for feeding.
- phosgene — a poisonous, colorless, very volatile liquid or suffocating gas, COCl 2 , a chemical-warfare compound: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
- phospho- — containing phosphorus
- phosphor — the morning star, especially Venus.