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9-letter words containing o, r, p, h

  • proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
  • prosphora — antidoron.
  • prosthion — the most forward projecting point of the anterior surface of the upper jaw, in the midsagittal plane.
  • protheses — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
  • prothesis — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
  • prothetic — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
  • prothorax — the anterior division of the thorax of an insect, bearing the first pair of legs.
  • push over — shove to the ground
  • put forth — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
  • pyorrhoea — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
  • pyothorax — empyema.
  • pyrograph — an object ornamented by pyrography.
  • pyrophone — an instrument resembling a small pipe organ, designed to produce musical sounds using gas flames burning close together in glass tubes, and producing a sound when the flames are separated by the pressing of a key. Designed by G.F.E. Kastner in 1869
  • 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
  • rasophore — a monk authorized to wear the rason.
  • rhamphoid — beaklike or beak-shaped
  • rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
  • rhapsodic — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
  • rheophile — an organism that likes to live in flowing water
  • rheotrope — a device that reverses an electric current
  • rhipidion — a fan used in Greek Orthodox church services
  • rhizocarp — a plant that fruits underground or whose root remains intact while the leaves die off annually
  • rhizopods — any of numerous protozoa of the widespread subphylum (or superclass) Rhizopoda, characterized by a pseudopod and comprising most members of the phylum Sarcodina, including the amebas and foraminifers.
  • rhodopsin — a bright-red photosensitive pigment found in the rod-shaped cells of the retina of certain fishes and most higher vertebrates: it is broken down by the action of dim light into retinal and opsin.
  • rhopalism — the art, skill, or incidence of writing rhopalic verse
  • road hump — speed bump that slows traffic
  • rogueship — the state or quality of being a rogue or rogueish
  • romp home — to win a race easily
  • rompishly — in a rompish manner
  • rotograph — a photograph, esp of a manuscript or book, which is printed white on black
  • semaphore — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
  • serpukhov — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, S of Moscow.
  • sharecrop — to cultivate (farmland) as a sharecropper
  • ship over — to enlist or reenlist in the U.S. Navy
  • shipboard — Archaic. the deck or side of a ship. the situation of being on a ship.
  • shipborne — carried on a ship.
  • shipowner — a person who owns a ship or ships.
  • shop-worn — worn or marred, as goods exposed and handled in a store.
  • shopboard — a shop counter or work bench
  • shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
  • shopfront — the area of a shop that faces street
  • shortstop — Baseball. the position of the player covering the area of the infield between second and third base. a fielder who covers this position.
  • shotproof — able to withstand shot
  • sonograph — an instrument that produces a graphic representation of sound.
  • sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
  • sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
  • sophomore — a student in the second year of high school or college.
  • southport — a seaport in Merseyside, in W England: resort.
  • storeship — a government-owned ship that carries supplies to a naval fleet
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