9-letter words containing m, a, h
- p & h — postage and handling
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- pachyderm — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- pachynema — the third stage of prophase in meiosis, during which each chromosome pair separates into sister chromatids with some breakage and crossing over of genes.
- palm chat — a passerine bird, Dulus dominicus, of Hispaniola and Gonave, in the West Indies, noted for its huge, communal nest, occupied by several pairs of birds.
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- pamphylia — an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pan-human — of, relating to, or affecting all humanity.
- pantheism — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- paramorph — a pseudomorph formed by a change in crystal structure but not in chemical composition.
- paranymph — a groomsman or a bridesmaid.
- pararhyme — a part-rhyme in which the consonants are the same but the vowels are different
- parchment — the skin of sheep, goats, etc., prepared for use as a material on which to write.
- pariahdom — an outcast.
- pariahism — an outcast.
- parma ham — cured ham from Italy
- peshmerga — a member of the armed forces in the autonomous Kurdish-controlled region of NE Iraq
- petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
- phagosome — a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
- phantasma — phantasm (defs 1, 2).
- pharmaco- — indicating drugs
- phenakism — a form of deceit or craftiness
- phenogram — a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.
- phenomena — a plural of phenomenon.
- philomath — a person who enjoys learning new facts and acquiring new knowledge
- philomela — the nightingale.
- phonogram — a unit symbol of a phonetic writing system, standing for a speech sound, syllable, or other sequence of speech sounds without reference to meaning.
- photogram — a silhouette photograph made by placing an object directly on sensitized paper and exposing it to light.
- photomask — an opaque image on a transparent plate that is used to filter light so the image can be transferred, used in photolithography applications
- phraseman — a man who coins or uses clever phrases
- ploughman — A ploughman is a man whose job it is to plough the land, especially with a plough pulled by horses or oxen.
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- polymathy — learning in many fields; encyclopedic knowledge.
- promachos — a defender or champion
- quamashes — Plural form of quamash.
- rakeshame — a shamefully dissolute person; rogue
- ram singh — 1816–85, Indian leader of a puritanical Sikh sect, the Kukas, who tried to remove the British from India through a policy of noncooperation
- ramamorph — any of a group of extinct Miocene apes of Europe, Asia, and Africa, characterized by large molars and small incisors and typified by the genera Ramapithecus and Sivapithecus.
- ramaphosa — (Matamela) Cyril. born 1952, South African statesman and trade unionist; secretary general of the ANC (1991–97); deputy president of South Africa from 2014
- rhabdomal — of or relating to rhabdoms
- rhamphoid — beaklike or beak-shaped
- rhathymia — carefree behavior; light-heartedness.
- rheumatic — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rhodamine — a red dye obtained by heating an alkyl aminophenol with phthalic anhydride.
- rhopalism — the art, skill, or incidence of writing rhopalic verse
- rhotacism — Historical Linguistics. a change of a speech sound, especially (s), to (r), as in the change from Old Latin lases to Latin lares.
- road hump — speed bump that slows traffic
- rotherham — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- s & h — shipping and handling
- saccharum — a brewing sugar derived from cane sugar