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9-letter words containing p, e, r, i, h, a

  • parrhesia — boldness or frankness of speech; the act of asking forgiveness for speaking in such a way
  • parthenia — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
  • pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
  • perihelia — the point in the orbit of a planet or comet at which it is nearest to the sun.
  • phanerite — any igneous rock whose grains are visible to the naked eye.
  • pharisees — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
  • philander — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
  • phreaking — phone phreak.
  • pie chart — a graphic representation of quantitative information by means of a circle divided into sectors, in which the relative sizes of the areas (or central angles) of the sectors correspond to the relative sizes or proportions of the quantities.
  • praiseach — a type of porridge made with oatmeal
  • preachify — to preach in an obtrusive or tedious way.
  • preachily — in a preachy fashion
  • preaching — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
  • printhead — the printing element, as a daisy wheel or thimble, on a computer printer.
  • reshaping — the act of shaping again or differently
  • rhipidate — shaped like a fan
  • sapphired — blue-coloured
  • seraphine — an old reed-based keyboard instrument; a reed organ
  • serigraph — a print made by the silkscreen process.
  • shear pin — an easily replaceable pin inserted in a machine at a critical point and designed to shear and stop the machine if the load becomes too great
  • spearfish — fish: type of marlin
  • sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
  • spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
  • tephigram — a chart depicting variations in atmospheric conditions relative to altitude
  • therapist — a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.
  • therapsid — any of various groups of mammallike reptiles of the extinct order Therapsida, inhabiting all continents from mid-Permian to late Triassic times, some of which were probably warm-blooded and directly ancestral to mammals.
  • wear ship — to change the tack of a sailing vessel, esp a square-rigger, by coming about so that the wind passes astern
  • zephyrian — of, relating to, or like a zephyr; full of or containing light breezes.
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