8-letter words containing o, r, p, h, a
- odograph — a recording odometer.
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- overheap — to supply too much
- parachor — a scientific quantity defined by a formula involving surface tension, mass, and density
- parochin — a parish
- pharaohs — a title of an ancient Egyptian king.
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- pot arch — an auxiliary furnace in which pots used in melting frit are preheated.
- potiphar — the Egyptian officer whose wife tried to seduce Joseph. Gen. 39:1–20.
- prograph — (language) A visual dataflow programming language and environment from the Technical University of Halifax. Prograph is an entirely graphical visual programming language, other than for the text of method names, and supports the program development process in a highly-interactive fashion. Operation icons are connected by data links through which information flows. It supports object orientation via class-based data abstraction with single inheritance. Prograph is available for the Macintosh, and soon for Windows and Unix, from TGS Systems.
- prophage — a stable, inherited form of bacteriophage in which the genetic material of the virus is integrated into, replicated, and expressed with the genetic material of the bacterial host.
- 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.
- pyorrhea — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
- randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- reaphook — a sickle
- reproach — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
- rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
- rhapsody — Music. an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation.
- rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
- sholapur — a city in S Maharashtra state, in SW India.
- vamphorn — a megaphone in use during the 18th and early 19th centuries for public address in church services.
- vaporish — of the nature of or resembling vapor: a vaporish chiffon dress.
- zipporah — the daughter of Jethro and the wife of Moses. Ex. 2:21.