9-letter words containing p, a, r, h
- presearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- preshaped — the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
- pretaught — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
- prewashed — being washed before sale, especially to produce a soft texture or a worn look: prewashed blue jeans.
- printhead — the printing element, as a daisy wheel or thimble, on a computer printer.
- prognathy — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- promachos — a defender or champion
- prop wash — propeller wash.
- prophasic — relating to the first stage of nuclear division
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- prosphora — antidoron.
- prothorax — the anterior division of the thorax of an insect, bearing the first pair of legs.
- purchased — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- purchaser — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- push-card — punchboard.
- pushchair — A pushchair is a small chair on wheels, in which a baby or small child can sit and be wheeled around.
- pyorrhoea — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
- pyothorax — empyema.
- pyracanth — a thorny evergreen shrub of the genus Pyracantha, related to the hawthorn
- pyrograph — an object ornamented by pyrography.
- rajahship — the office or territory of a rajah
- 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
- rap sheet — a record kept by law-enforcement authorities of a person's arrests and convictions.
- rasophore — a monk authorized to wear the rason.
- repechage — (in cycling and rowing) a last-chance qualifying heat in which the runners-up in earlier heats race each other, with the winner advancing to the finals.
- reshaping — the act of shaping again or differently
- resharpen — to sharpen again
- rhamphoid — beaklike or beak-shaped
- rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
- rhapsodic — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rhipidate — shaped like a fan
- rhizocarp — a plant that fruits underground or whose root remains intact while the leaves die off annually
- rhopalism — the art, skill, or incidence of writing rhopalic verse
- rivalship — rivalry
- road hump — speed bump that slows traffic
- rotograph — a photograph, esp of a manuscript or book, which is printed white on black
- sapphired — blue-coloured
- schnapper — a food fish, Pagrosomus auratus, occurring in large numbers off the shores of Australia and New Zealand.
- scrapheap — a pile of old, discarded material, as metal.
- sea perch — surfperch.
- semaphore — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- seraphine — an old reed-based keyboard instrument; a reed organ
- serigraph — a print made by the silkscreen process.
- shakspere — William ("the Bard"; "the Bard of Avon") 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist.
- shapewear — undergarments designed to mold or hold a body to a certain shape, as girdles.
- sharecrop — to cultivate (farmland) as a sharecropper
- sharp apl — (language) (Or "Dictionary APL")
- sharp-cut — cut so as to have a sharp edge: a tool with a sharp-cut blade.
- sharp-set — eager to satisfy the appetite, especially for food.