9-letter words containing p, e, t, s, h
- phonetics — (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
- phonetism — the science of speech sounds and of writing phonetically
- phonetist — a person who uses or advocates phonetic spelling.
- phosphate — Chemistry. (loosely) a salt or ester of phosphoric acid. a tertiary salt of orthophosphoric acid, as sodium phosphate.
- phosphite — (loosely) a salt of phosphorous acid.
- photolyse — to cause to undergo or to undergo photolysis
- phrenitis — inflammation of the brain; encephalitis.
- phyletics — phylogenetic classification.
- pithiness — brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation.
- pooterish — characteristic of or resembling the fictional character Pooter, esp in being bourgeois, genteel, or self-important
- porthouse — a company that produces port
- post-hole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
- posthaste — with the greatest possible speed or promptness: to come to a friend's aid posthaste.
- posthorse — horse kept at an inn or posthouse for use by postriders or for hire to travellers
- posthouse — house or inn where horses were kept for postriders or for hire to travellers
- prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
- prettyish — quite pretty
- protheses — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- prothesis — the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- pythoness — a woman believed to be possessed by a soothsaying spirit, as the priestess of Apollo at Delphi.
- rap sheet — a record kept by law-enforcement authorities of a person's arrests and convictions.
- sciophyte — any plant that grows best in the shade
- sharp-set — eager to satisfy the appetite, especially for food.
- sheepcote — a pen or covered enclosure for sheep.
- sheeptick — a wingless, bloodsucking, dipterous insect, Melophagus ovinus, that is parasitic on sheep.
- siphonate — (of molluscs) having a syphon
- sketchpad — sketchbook (def 1).
- slipsheet — a sheet so inserted.
- sophister — a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- spaceshot — a launch of a space vehicle beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- spaghetti — a white, starchy pasta of Italian origin that is made in the form of long strings, boiled, and served with any of a variety of meat, tomato, or other sauces.
- sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
- sphincter — a circular band of voluntary or involuntary muscle that encircles an orifice of the body or one of its hollow organs.
- splotches — a large, irregular spot; blot; stain; blotch.
- spreathed — sore; chapped
- steamship — a large commercial vessel, especially one driven by steam.
- stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
- stepchild — a child of one's spouse by a previous marriage.
- stephanie — a female given name.
- stephen i — Saint, died a.d. 257? pope 254–257.
- stephen v — died a.d. 891, pope 885–891.
- storeship — a government-owned ship that carries supplies to a naval fleet
- sulphuret — to treat or combine with sulphur
- superheat — the state of being superheated.
- superthin — extremely thin
- sweatshop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
- sweetshop — a shop solely or largely selling sweets, esp boiled sweets
- tap shoes — shoes worn by tap-dancers which are equipped with taps that make a rhythmic sound when the shoes are used for dancing
- telophase — the final stage of meiosis or mitosis, in which the separated chromosomes reach the opposite poles of the dividing cell and the nuclei of the daughter cells form around the two sets of chromosomes.
- thaneship — thanage.