8-letter words containing p, e, r, i, h
- perthite — a variety of feldspar containing irregular bands of albite in microcline.
- pharisee — 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.
- pheresis — apheresis, especially plasmapheresis.
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- phrenism — one of the three vital forces, which are non-physical life forces. Phrenism is the thought force, as opposed to neurism, the nerve force, and bathmism, the growth force.
- pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
- piershed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- pinchers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- pinscher — one of a group of related dogs including the Doberman pinscher, miniature pinscher, and affenpinscher.
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- prebirth — the period, usually six months, preceding a child's birth.
- prechill — coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
- prefight — of the period before a boxing match
- prehnite — a mineral, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, Ca 2 Al 2 Si 3 O 1 0 (OH) 2 , occurring in light-green reniform aggregates or tabular crystals.
- preweigh — to weigh beforehand
- punchier — punch-drunk.
- punisher — to subject to pain, loss, confinement, death, etc., as a penalty for some offense, transgression, or fault: to punish a criminal.
- rathripe — mature or ripe ahead of time
- repolish — a repolishing, the action of polishing again
- respighi — Ottorino [awt-taw-ree-naw] /ˌɔt tɔˈri nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1879–1936, Italian composer.
- rheophil — (of organisms) liking flowing water
- rose hip — hip2 .
- samphire — a European succulent plant, Crithmum maritimum, of the parsley family, having compound leaves and small, whitish flowers, growing in clefts of rock near the sea.
- sapphire — any gem variety of corundum other than the ruby, especially one of the blue varieties.
- sephardi — a Jew of Spanish, Portuguese, or North African descent
- seraphic — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- seraphim — a plural of seraph.
- seraphin — a silver coin which formed the principal currency of Goa in the 16th century
- shar pei — one of a Chinese breed of large muscular dogs having a distinctive wrinkly skin covered by a fawn to dark brown smooth coat, originally developed as a guard dog.
- shar-pei — one of a Chinese breed of large muscular dogs having a distinctive wrinkly skin covered by a fawn to dark brown smooth coat, originally developed as a guard dog.
- shrimper — a shrimp fisherman.
- sighyper — Special Interest Group on Hypertext and Multimedia of the SGML Users' Group.
- sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
- sopherim — scribe1 (def 3).
- sphairee — a game resembling tennis played with wooden bats and a perforated plastic ball, devised by F. A. Beck in 1961
- 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.
- spitcher — the end or finish
- superhit — an extremely popular song, film, CD, play, etc
- tephrite — a basaltic rock consisting essentially of pyroxene and plagioclase with nepheline or leucite.
- teraphim — small images or other things representing household gods, used among ancient Semitic peoples
- treeship — the existence of a tree
- trephine — a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.
- triphase — operating in three phases
- triphone — a group of three phonemes
- trophied — adorned with trophies.
- uncipher — to decode; decipher
- whimpers — Plural form of whimper.
- whippers — Plural form of whipper.