9-letter words containing h, y, p, a
- pantyhose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- paranymph — a groomsman or a bridesmaid.
- pararhyme — a part-rhyme in which the consonants are the same but the vowels are different
- parchedly — in a parched manner
- parhypate — a note in ancient Greek music, the second lowest note in the two lowest tetrachords
- party hat — a hat, often made of paper, worn at a party
- pathogeny — the production and development of disease.
- pathology — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- pay phone — a public telephone requiring that the caller deposit coins or use a credit card to pay for a call.
- paycheque — a payment for work done
- pentarchy — a government by five persons.
- phagocyte — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- pharyngo- — pharynx
- philately — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- phlyctena — a small vesicle, blister, or pustule.
- phonatory — rapid, periodic opening and closing of the glottis through separation and apposition of the vocal cords that, accompanied by breath under lung pressure, constitutes a source of vocal sound.
- phony war — (in wartime) a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
- photoplay — a motion-picture scenario; screenplay.
- phycocyan — a type of blue pigment or protein which is found in some algae
- phylactic — defending or protecting, especially from disease.
- phylakopi — an archaeological site on the Greek island of Melos, in the Cyclades group: excavations have revealed the remains of three successive ancient cities erected on a primitive Cycladic settlement.
- phylarchy — a government led by a phylarch
- physiatry — physical medicine.
- physicals — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- physician — a person who is legally qualified to practice medicine; doctor of medicine.
- phytosaur — any armored, semiaquatic reptile of the extinct order Phytosauria, of the Mesozoic Era, resembling the crocodile but unrelated, having the nostrils high on the snout and with well-developed hind limbs suggestive of bipedal ancestors.
- platyfish — any of several small, yellow-gray freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, especially X. variatus, of Mexico: popular in home aquariums, in which the color varies widely.
- play hell — To play hell with something means to have a bad effect on it or cause great confusion. In British English, you can also say that one person or thing plays merry hell with another.
- play with — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- playhouse — a theater.
- plaything — a thing to play with; toy.
- polyantha — a type of clustering flower
- polyanthi — hybrid garden primroses
- polyarchy — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polygraph — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polymathy — learning in many fields; encyclopedic knowledge.
- polyphagy — an insatiable appetite
- polyphase — having more than one phase.
- poppyhead — a finial or other ornament, often richly carved, as the top of the upright end of a bench or pew.
- porphyria — a defect of blood pigment metabolism in which porphyrins are produced in excess, are present in the blood, and are found in the urine.
- pothecary — apothecary.
- poyang hu — lake in N Jiangxi province, SE China: c. 1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km)
- preachify — to preach in an obtrusive or tedious way.
- preachily — in a preachy fashion
- prognathy — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- psychical — of or relating to the human soul or mind; mental (opposed to physical).
- psychogas — a gas with a mind-altering effect
- pyorrhoea — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
- pyothorax — empyema.