6-letter words containing h, p, s
- paskha — an Easter dessert of pot cheese mixed with sugar, butter, cream, raisins, nuts, etc., and pressed into a pyramidal mold: usually served with kulich.
- pathos — the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity, or of sympathetic and kindly sorrow or compassion.
- penhsi — Benxi.
- perish — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- pesach — Passover (def 1).
- pharos — a small peninsula in N Egypt, near Alexandria: site of ancient lighthouse built by Ptolemy.
- phased — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phasic — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phasis — a manner, stage, or aspect of being; phase.
- phasor — a vector that represents a sinusoidally varying quantity, as a current or voltage, by means of a line rotating about a point in a plane, the magnitude of the quantity being proportional to the length of the line and the phase of the quantity being equal to the angle between the line and a reference line.
- pheese — a state of edgy or uneasy agitation
- phelps — William Lyon [lahy-uh n] /ˈlaɪ ən/ (Show IPA), 1865–1943, U.S. educator and literary critic.
- phobos — Also, Phobus [foh-buh s] /ˈfoʊ bəs/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. a son and attendant of Ares and the personification of a fear held to possess armies and cause their defeat.
- phobus — Also, Phobus [foh-buh s] /ˈfoʊ bəs/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. a son and attendant of Ares and the personification of a fear held to possess armies and cause their defeat.
- phocis — an ancient district in central Greece, N of the Gulf of Corinth: site of Delphic oracle.
- phocus — An object-oriented Prolog-like language.
- pholas — a type of bivalve mollusc that is a member of the genus Pholas and family Pholadidae
- pholus — a large astronomical object, some 2000 km in diameter, discovered in 1991. Its elliptical orbit around the earth, between the orbits of Neptune and Saturn, has a period of 93 years. It has been classified as an asteroid although it lies outside the main asteroid belt
- photos — photograph.
- phrase — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrasy — characterized by the use of many phrases
- physed — physical education
- physes — the principle of growth or change in nature.
- physic — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- physio — physical therapy
- physis — the principle of growth or change in nature.
- pisgah — Mount, a mountain ridge of ancient Moab, now in Jordan, NE of the Dead Sea: from its summit (Mt. Nebo) Moses viewed the Promised Land. Deut. 34:1.
- pished — an exclamation of “pish!”.
- pisher — a young boy or person who still has little experience
- pithos — a very large earthenware jar having a wide mouth, used by the ancient Greeks for storing liquids, as wine, or for holding food, as grain, or for the burial of the dead.
- plashy — marshy; wet.
- plushy — of, relating to, or resembling plush.
- poisha — an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Bangladesh, the 100th part of a taka.
- polish — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- popish — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Roman Catholic Church.
- poshly — in a posh manner
- potash — potassium carbonate, especially the crude impure form obtained from wood ashes.
- pothos — any of various tropical climbing vines belonging to the genera Pothos and Epipremnum, of the arum family, especially E. aureum, widely cultivated for its variegated foliage.
- psych- — psycho-
- psyche — to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out): to psych out the competition.
- psycho — a psychopathic or psychotic person.
- punish — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- pushed — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- pusher — a person or thing that pushes.
- pushto — Pashto.
- pushtu — Pashto.
- putsch — a plotted revolt or attempt to overthrow a government, especially one that depends upon suddenness and speed.
- q-ship — an armed combat ship disguised as a merchant vessel to attract submarines within attack range.
- reship — to ship again.
- s-http — secure hypertext transfer protocol: a way of transmitting individual messages securely over the internet