8-letter words containing p, d, h
- piershed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- pilchard — a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.
- pillhead — a person who habitually takes pills, especially amphetamines or barbiturates.
- pisshead — a drunkard
- play-doh — Play-Doh is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
- pleached — having interlaced stems or boughs
- plighted — to pledge (one's troth) in engagement to marry.
- polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
- ponchoed — wearing a poncho
- popehood — the office of the Pope
- potholed — A potholed road has a lot of potholes in it.
- potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
- predeath — occurring before or in the lead-up to death; of or pertaining to the period immediately prior to death
- prichard — a city in S Alabama.
- proudhon — Pierre Joseph [pyer zhaw-zef] /pyɛr ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1809–65, French socialist and writer.
- proudish — rather proud
- prud'hon — Pierre Paul [pyer pawl] /pyɛr pɔl/ (Show IPA), (Pierre Prudon) 1758–1823, French painter.
- pseudish — pretentious
- psychoid — the innate impetus to perform actions
- pthreads — POSIX Threads
- pumphood — a cover for the upper wheel of a chain pump
- pushcard — punchboard.
- pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top
- randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
- 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.
- rhizopod — 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.
- sandheap — a heap of sand
- scaphoid — boat-shaped; navicular.
- sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
- sheepdog — a dog trained to herd and guard sheep.
- shepherd — a male given name.
- sheppard — Jack. 1702–24, English criminal, whose daring escapes from prison were celebrated in many contemporary ballads and plays
- shin pad — A shin pad is a thick piece of material that you wear inside your socks to protect the lower part of your leg when you are playing a game such as football or rugby.
- shipload — a full load for a ship.
- shipside — the area alongside a ship, as on a pier.
- shipyard — a yard or enclosure in which ships are built or repaired.
- shtupped — to have sexual intercourse with.
- sidepath — a minor path
- siphoned — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
- slapdash — in a hasty, haphazard manner: He assembled the motor slapdash.
- slaphead — a bald person
- slipshod — careless, untidy, or slovenly: slipshod work.
- soapdish — a shallow container for a bar of soap, used in a bathroom
- sphenoid — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
- sphingid — hawk moth.
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- stephead — dropline.
- sulphide — A sulphide is a compound of sulphur with some other chemical elements.