8-letter words containing p, d, h
- dropship — (science fiction, gaming) A flying transport that drops troops onto the battlefield.
- dry-hump — to engage in non-penetrative sexual activity
- dukeship — the position or status of a duke
- dungheap — pile of dung
- dustheap — a heap or pile of rubbish, refuse, or the like.
- dyspathy — antipathy.
- fishpond — a small pond containing fish, often one in which edible fish are raised for commercial purposes, as for stocking lakes and streams or wholesaling.
- god help — You use God help you to warn someone that something unpleasant will happen to them if they do a particular thing.
- hampered — Hinder or impede the movement or progress of.
- handclap — a clapping of the hands.
- handgrip — the grip or clasp of a hand, as in greeting: a firm but friendly handgrip.
- handicap — a race or other contest in which certain disadvantages or advantages of weight, distance, time, etc., are placed upon competitors to equalize their chances of winning.
- handlamp — A small lamp carried in the hand.
- handpass — (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) A pass made by holding the ball in one hand, and hitting it with the other hand.
- handpick — to pick by hand.
- hands up — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- handspan — The width of a person’s hand, as measured from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger, when the fingers and thumb are spread out.
- haploidy — (genetics) The state of being haploid.
- happened — to take place; come to pass; occur: Something interesting is always happening in New York.
- hard bop — an aggressive, driving, hot style of modern jazz developed by East Coast musicians in the late 1950s as a rejection of the more relaxed, cool style of West Coast jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
- hard pad — (in dogs) an abnormal increase in the thickness of the foot pads: one of the clinical signs of canine distemper
- hard put — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- hard top — A hard top is a vehicle that has a permanent rigid roof.
- hard-put — hard (def 57).
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hardpack — a bag that has a rigid shell
- hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
- hardtops — Plural form of hardtop.
- head dip — a maneuver in which a surfer, by squatting and leaning forward on the surfboard, partially dips his or her head into the wall of a wave.
- headlamp — headlight.
- headrope — the part of a bolt-rope attached to the head of a sail
- heads-up — first in rank or position; chief; leading; principal: a head official.
- headship — the position of head or chief; chief authority; leadership; supremacy.
- hedgehop — to fly an airplane at a very low altitude, as for spraying crops or for low-level bombing in warfare.
- helipads — Plural form of helipad.
- helpdesk — Alternative spelling of help desk.
- hemipode — button quail.
- hempseed — the seed of hemp, used as food for birds.
- hempweed — a climbing herb with flowers that smell of vanilla
- hepcidin — A hormone produced by the liver that regulates iron homeostasis in mammals.
- hesperid — any small butterfly of the family Hesperiidae; a skipper
- hexapods — Plural form of hexapod.
- hexapody — a measure consisting of six feet.
- hiccuped — Simple past tense and past participle of hiccup.
- holed up — If you are holed up somewhere, you are hiding or staying there, usually so that other people cannot find or disturb you.
- hopfield — a field in which hops are grown
- hopheads — (slang) Plural form of hophead.
- hospodar — a former title of governors or princes of Wallachia and Moldavia.
- hump day — Wednesday
- hydropac — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Pacific Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.