9-letter words containing h, p, g, l
- phellogen — cork cambium, a layer of tissue or secondary meristem external to the true cambium, giving rise to cork tissue.
- phenology — the science dealing with the influence of climate on the recurrence of such annual phenomena of animal and plant life as budding and bird migrations.
- philogyny — love of or liking for women.
- philology — the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.
- phonology — the study of the distribution and patterning of speech sounds in a language and of the tacit rules governing pronunciation.
- photalgia — pain, as in an eye, that is caused by intensity of light.
- phycology — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- phylogeny — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- phytology — botany.
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- plaything — a thing to play with; toy.
- plightful — filled with distress
- plough on — If you plough on, you continue moving or trying to complete something, even though it takes a lot of effort to go on.
- plough up — If someone ploughs up an area of land, they plough it, usually in order to turn it into land used for growing crops.
- ploughboy — a boy who guides the animals drawing a plough
- ploughing — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- ploughman — A ploughman is a man whose job it is to plough the land, especially with a plough pulled by horses or oxen.
- plowright — Dame Joan. born 1929, British actress, married to Laurence Olivier (1961–89)
- polygraph — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polyphagy — an insatiable appetite
- potholing — exploring caves
- preflight — occurring or done before a flight: a preflight briefing of the plane's crew.
- slag heap — A slag heap is a hill made from waste material, such as rock and mud, left over from mining.
- spanglish — Spanish spoken with a large admixture of English, especially American, words and expressions.
- spotlight — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
- sprightly — animated or vivacious; lively.
- stoplight — traffic light.
- telegraph — an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
- tragelaph — a mythical animal that is a cross between a goat and a stag
- traplight — a lighting device used to trap insects, especially moths.
- uplighter — a lamp or wall light designed or positioned to cast its light upwards
- uprightly — erect or vertical, as in position or posture.
- xylograph — An engraving in wood, especially one used for printing.
- xylophage — any insect or organism that eats wood