8-letter words containing p, e, h, s
- slaphead — a bald person
- sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
- sopherim — scribe1 (def 3).
- spanghew — to throw into the air
- spathose — spathaceous.
- sphairee — a game resembling tennis played with wooden bats and a perforated plastic ball, devised by F. A. Beck in 1961
- sphenoid — being in the shape of a wedge; wedge-shaped.
- spherics — Also, sferics. (used with a singular verb) a branch of meteorology in which electronic devices are used to forecast the weather and to study atmospheric conditions.
- spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
- spherule — a small sphere or spherical body.
- sphinges — a figure of an imaginary creature having the head of a man or an animal and the body of a lion. (usually initial capital letter) the colossal recumbent stone figure of this kind near the pyramids of Giza.
- spitcher — the end or finish
- spithead — a roadstead off the S coast of England between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight.
- splasher — a person or thing that splashes.
- spreathe — to chap
- stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
- steepish — somewhat or a little steep
- stephane — an ancient Greek headdress or crown often depicted in the statuary of various deities
- stephead — dropline.
- stephens — Saint, died a.d. c35, first Christian martyr.
- subepoch — an epoch or time period within another epoch or time period
- subphase — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- sulphate — A sulphate is a salt of sulphuric acid.
- sulphide — A sulphide is a compound of sulphur with some other chemical elements.
- sulphite — any salt or ester of sulphurous acid, containing the ions SO32– or HSO3– (hydrogen sulphite) or the groups –SO3 or –HSO3. The salts are usually soluble crystalline compounds
- sulphone — any of a class of organic compounds containing the divalent group –SO2 linked to two other organic groups. Certain sulphones are used in the treatment of leprosy and tuberculosis
- superhit — an extremely popular song, film, CD, play, etc
- superhot — extremely hot
- swamphen — any of several large Old World gallinules varying from purple to white, all possibly belonging to the single species Porphyrio porphyrio.
- symphile — an insect or other organism that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants and termites, and is fed and reared by the inmates
- synaphea — a continuity of rhythm throughout a poem
- syphoned — 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.
- t-shaped — having the shape of a letter T
- taphouse — an inn or tavern where liquor for sale is kept on tap.
- tea shop — a tearoom.
- teleshop — to engage in teleshopping.
- the past — the period of time or a segment of it that has elapsed
- the pits — a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground: pits caused by erosion; clay pits.
- the push — dismissal, esp from employment
- the ship — the constellation Argo
- the yips — (in golf) nervous twitching or tension that destroys concentration and spoils performance
- thespiae — a city at the foot of Mount Helicon where, according to mythology, the Muses performed their games.
- thespian — (often lowercase) pertaining to tragedy or to the dramatic art in general.
- thespius — the founder of the city of Thespiae and the father, by Megamede, of 50 daughters, all of whom bore sons to Hercules.
- tipsheet — a list of advice or tips
- treeship — the existence of a tree
- triphase — operating in three phases
- trophesy — a condition caused by a disorder of the nerves relating to nutrition
- typhoeus — the son of Gaea and Tartarus who had a hundred dragon heads, which spurted fire, and a bellowing many-tongued voice. He created the whirlwinds and fought with Zeus before the god hurled him beneath Mount Etna
- u-shaped — being in the form of a U .