8-letter words containing p, e, s, a, h
- isophane — (uncountable, medicine) A synthetic form of insulin used to treat diabetes.
- kephalos — Cephalus.
- l-shaped — having the shape of the letter L
- mageship — the role or office of a mage
- mateship — the state of being a mate.
- misshape — to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
- o-shaped — resembling the rounded form of the letter O
- papisher — a Roman Catholic
- parishen — a parishioner
- pasiphae — Classical Mythology. the wife of Minos, mother of Ariadne, and mother of the Minotaur by the Cretan bull.
- pasithea — one of the Graces.
- pastiche — a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
- pathless — trackless; untrodden: a pathless forest.
- pathoses — a diseased condition.
- pathspec — pathname
- pearlash — commercial potassium carbonate.
- peatship — the state of being a peat
- peshawar — a province in Pakistan, bordering Punjab and Kashmir on the west: a former province of British India. 28,773 sq. mi. (77,516 sq. km). Capital: Peshawar.
- peshitta — the principal Syriac version of the Bible.
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- phaestus — Phaistos.
- 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.
- phase in — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phase-in — an act or instance of phasing in; gradual introduction or implementation.
- phaseout — an act or instance of phasing out; planned discontinuation or expiration.
- pheasant — any of numerous large, usually long-tailed, Old World gallinaceous birds of the family Phasianidae, widely introduced.
- pheidias — Phidias
- pisshead — a drunkard
- pistache — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
- postheat — to heat (a metal piece, as a weld) after working, so as to relieve stresses.
- precrash — of or pertaining to the period before a crash, esp of a motor vehicle; coming into effect or being deployed prior to a crash
- preshape — to shape beforehand so as to be ready for use
- preshave — a liquid preparation, usually containing alcohol, for applying to the face to dry the skin and beard before shaving with an electric razor.
- prophase — Cell Biology. the first stage of mitosis or meiosis in eukaryotic cell division, during which the nuclear envelope breaks down and strands of chromatin form into chromosomes.
- pthreads — POSIX Threads
- purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- rephrase — to phrase again or differently: He rephrased the statement to give it less formality.
- reshaper — a person or thing that reshapes
- rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
- 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.
- sandheap — a heap of sand
- sapphire — any gem variety of corundum other than the ruby, especially one of the blue varieties.
- scyphate — being in the shape of a cup; cup-shaped.
- sea whip — a gorgonian coral that forms a flexible colony resembling shrubbery on the ocean floor.
- seaperch — surfperch.
- 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
- shagpile — (of a carpet or rug) having long, rough fibres