7-letter words containing n, e, p, h
- panther — the cougar or puma, Felis concolor.
- patchen — Kenneth, 1911–72, U.S. poet and novelist.
- penrith — a market town in NW England, in Cumbria. Pop: 14 471 (2001)
- penuche — Also, panocha. Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. a fudgelike candy made of brown sugar, butter, and milk, usually with nuts.
- phaenna — one of the Graces worshiped at Sparta.
- phaeton — any of various light, four-wheeled carriages, with or without a top, having one or two seats facing forward, used in the 19th century.
- phenate — a phenic acid salt
- phenoxy — containing the monovalent radical C6H5O, derived from phenol
- phineas — a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “serpent's mouth or oracle.”.
- phineus — a brother of Cepheus who was not brave enough to rescue his betrothed Andromeda from a sea monster and who was eventually turned to stone.
- phocine — of or relating to seals.
- phoenix — a state in SW United States. 113,909 sq. mi. (295,025 sq. km). Capital: Phoenix. Abbreviation: AZ (for use with zip code), Ariz.
- phonate — to articulate speech sounds, esp to cause the vocal cords to vibrate in the execution of a voiced speech sound
- phoneme — any of a small set of units, usually about 20 to 60 in number, and different for each language, considered to be the basic distinctive units of speech sound by which morphemes, words, and sentences are represented. They are arrived at for any given language by determining which differences in sound function to indicate a difference in meaning, so that in English the difference in sound and meaning between pit and bit is taken to indicate the existence of different labial phonemes, while the difference in sound between the unaspirated p of spun and the aspirated p of pun, since it is never the only distinguishing feature between two different words, is not taken as ground for setting up two different p phonemes in English. Compare distinctive feature (def 1).
- phonied — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- phonies — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- phrenic — Anatomy. of or relating to the diaphragm.
- phreno- — mind or brain
- phrensy — frenzy
- phytane — a hydrocarbon found in some fossilized plant remains
- pinched — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
- pincher — a person or thing that pinches.
- pinhead — the head of a pin.
- pinhole — a small hole made by or as by a pin.
- planche — a flat piece of metal, stone, or baked clay, used as a tray in an enameling oven.
- plenish — to fill up; stock; furnish.
- potheen — poteen.
- prehend — to take hold of
- pschent — the double crown worn by ancient Egyptian kings, symbolic of dominion over Upper and Lower Egypt, which had previously been separate kingdoms.
- punched — a tool or machine for perforating or stamping materials, driving nails, etc.
- puncher — a thrusting blow, especially with the fist.
- punches — the chief male character in a Punch-and-Judy show.
- saphena — saphenous vein.
- sharpen — knife: make sharper
- shippen — a cowshed
- sphenic — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- spheno- — having the shape of a wedge
- stephen — died 1058, pope 1057–58.
- the pen — writing as an occupation
- unhoped — not expected or anticipated; unhoped-for.
- unperch — to remove or knock from a perch
- unshape — to render shapeless
- wanhope — anguish or despondency