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9-letter words containing n, a, p, h

  • philopena — a custom, presumably of German origin, in which two persons share the kernels of a nut and determine that one shall receive a forfeit from the other at a later time upon the saying of a certain word or the performance of a certain action.
  • phlyctena — a small vesicle, blister, or pustule.
  • phoenicia — an ancient kingdom on the Mediterranean, in the region of modern Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
  • phonathon — a campaign to solicit funds or support in which volunteers make phone calls to prospective donors or supporters.
  • phonation — 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.
  • 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.
  • phone tag — telephone tag.
  • phone tap — an instance of listening secretly, usually illegally, to someone's phone conversations using special electronic equipment
  • phonecard — calling card (def 3).
  • 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.
  • phony war — (in wartime) a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
  • photoscan — to study the distribution of a radioactive isotope or radiopaque dye in (a body organ or part) through the use of x-rays.
  • phraseman — a man who coins or uses clever phrases
  • phreaking — phone phreak.
  • phthalein — any of a group of compounds formed by treating phthalic anhydride with phenols, from which certain important dyes are derived.
  • phycocyan — a type of blue pigment or protein which is found in some algae
  • physician — a person who is legally qualified to practice medicine; doctor of medicine.
  • pickthank — a person who seeks favor by flattery or gossip; sycophant.
  • pinch bar — a kind of crowbar or lever with a projection that serves as a fulcrum.
  • pinchback — Pinckney Benton Stewart, 1837–1921, U.S. politician.
  • pinheaded — stupid or foolish.
  • plansheer — plancer.
  • plaything — a thing to play with; toy.
  • plekhanov — Georgi (or Georgy) Valentinovich [gyi-awr-gyee-vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh-vyich] /gyɪˈɔr gyi və lyɪnˈtyi nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1857–1918, Russian philosopher and leader of the Mensheviks.
  • ploughman — A ploughman is a man whose job it is to plough the land, especially with a plough pulled by horses or oxen.
  • polyantha — a type of clustering flower
  • polyanthi — hybrid garden primroses
  • ponograph — an instrument for graphically recording pain or muscular fatigue.
  • poyang hu — lake in N Jiangxi province, SE China: c. 1,000 sq mi (2,590 sq km)
  • preaching — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
  • prehandle — to handle beforehand
  • preharden — to harden beforehand
  • prelaunch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
  • printhead — the printing element, as a daisy wheel or thimble, on a computer printer.
  • prognathy — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • punchball — a form of playground or street baseball in which a rubber ball is batted with the fist.
  • putonghua — the form of Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, adopted as the official national language of China.
  • pyracanth — a thorny evergreen shrub of the genus Pyracantha, related to the hawthorn
  • reshaping — the act of shaping again or differently
  • resharpen — to sharpen again
  • rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
  • sahaptian — a family of North American Indian languages consisting of Sahaptin and Nez Percé
  • saintship — the qualities or status of a saint.
  • saphenous — of, relating to, or situated near the saphenous vein.
  • saxophone — a musical wind instrument consisting of a conical, usually brass tube with keys or valves and a mouthpiece with one reed.
  • scan path — (circuit design) A technique used to increase the controllability and observability of a logic circuit by incorporating "scan registers" into the circuit. Normally these act like flip-flops but they can be switched into a "test" mode where they all become one long shift register. This allows data to be clocked serially through all the scan registers and out of an output pin at the same time as new data is clocked in from an input pin. Using this technique, the state of certain points in the circuit can be examined and modified at any time by suspending normal operation and switching to test mode. If the scan path is placed adjacent to the circuit's input and output pins then this is known as "boundary scan".
  • schnapper — a food fish, Pagrosomus auratus, occurring in large numbers off the shores of Australia and New Zealand.
  • seraphine — an old reed-based keyboard instrument; a reed organ
  • sharpener — A sharpener is a tool or machine used for sharpening pencils or knives.
  • sharpness — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
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