8-letter words containing h, s, a
- padishah — (often initial capital letter) great king; emperor (a title applied especially formerly to the shah of Iran, the sultan of Turkey, and to the British sovereign as emperor in India).
- pansophy — universal wisdom or knowledge.
- papisher — a Roman Catholic
- parashah — a portion of the Torah chanted or read each week in the synagogue on the Sabbath.
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- parishen — a parishioner
- pashadom — the office or territory of a pasha
- pashalik — the territory governed by a pasha.
- pashmina — a fabric or garment made from pashm, especially a shawl, wrap, or scarf.
- pasiphae — Classical Mythology. the wife of Minos, mother of Ariadne, and mother of the Minotaur by the Cretan bull.
- pasithea — one of the Graces.
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- pathless — trackless; untrodden: a pathless forest.
- pathoses — a diseased condition.
- pathosis — a diseased condition.
- pathspec — pathname
- pawnshop — the shop of a pawnbroker, especially one where unredeemed items are displayed and sold.
- pearlash — commercial potassium carbonate.
- peatship — the state of being a peat
- peshawar — a province in Pakistan, bordering Punjab and Kashmir on the west: a former province of British India. 28,773 sq. mi. (77,516 sq. km). Capital: Peshawar.
- peshitta — the principal Syriac version of the Bible.
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- phaestus — Phaistos.
- phaistos — an ancient city in S central Crete: site of Minoan palace; Linear A tablets and important pottery objects unearthed here.
- phantasm — an apparition or specter.
- phantast — a visionary or dreamer.
- phantasy — fantasy.
- pharaohs — a title of an ancient Egyptian king.
- pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
- phase in — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phase-in — an act or instance of phasing in; gradual introduction or implementation.
- phaseout — an act or instance of phasing out; planned discontinuation or expiration.
- pheasant — any of numerous large, usually long-tailed, Old World gallinaceous birds of the family Phasianidae, widely introduced.
- pheidias — Phidias
- phrasing — 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.
- phylaxis — medical term for protection against infection
- physalia — a marine invertebrate, often confused with a jellyfish, that has a painful sting
- physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- pisshead — a drunkard
- pistache — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
- plainish — rather ordinary-looking
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- postheat — to heat (a metal piece, as a weld) after working, so as to relieve stresses.
- prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
- precrash — of or pertaining to the period before a crash, esp of a motor vehicle; coming into effect or being deployed prior to a crash
- preshape — to shape beforehand so as to be ready for use
- preshave — a liquid preparation, usually containing alcohol, for applying to the face to dry the skin and beard before shaving with an electric razor.
- prophase — Cell Biology. the first stage of mitosis or meiosis in eukaryotic cell division, during which the nuclear envelope breaks down and strands of chromatin form into chromosomes.
- pthreads — POSIX Threads
- purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.