9-letter words containing p, h, a, e
- elephants — Plural form of elephant.
- empathies — Plural form of empathy.
- empathise — (British) alternative spelling of empathize.
- empathize — Understand and share the feelings of another.
- emphasise — (British) alternative spelling of emphasize.
- emphasize — Give special importance or prominence to (something) in speaking or writing.
- emphatics — Plural form of emphatic.
- emphysema — A condition in which the air sacs of the lungs are damaged and enlarged, causing breathlessness.
- encephala — Plural form of encephalon.
- endophagy — cannibalism within the same group or tribe
- eparchial — Of or pertaining to an eparchy.
- eparchies — Plural form of eparchy.
- epedaphic — of or relating to atmospheric conditions
- ephemeral — An ephemeral plant.
- ephesians — a book of the New Testament (in full The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians), containing an exposition of the divine plan for the world and the consummation of this in Christ
- ephialtes — (obsolete) an incubus; a nightmare.
- ephippial — Saddle-shaped; occupying an ephippium.
- ephoralty — an ephor's office
- epigraphs — Plural form of epigraph.
- epigraphy — The study and interpretation of ancient inscriptions.
- epiphanic — Having the character of a religious epiphany.
- epiphragm — A dry layer of mucus used by a snail or mollusk to seal itself inside its shell during hibernation.
- epirrhema — the address in Greek comedy
- epitaphed — Simple past tense and past participle of epitaph.
- epitapher — one who writes epitaphs
- epitaphic — Pertaining to an epitaph.
- epithecal — (microbiology, planktology) Of or pertaining to the epitheca, the upper half of the shell of certain types of plankton.
- epithelia — Plural form of epithelium.
- epochally — In an epochal manner.
- ergograph — A graph that shows a relation between human activities, or agricultural/climate factors, and a seasonal year.
- esophagus — The part of the alimentary canal that connects the throat to the stomach; the gullet. In humans and other vertebrates it is a muscular tube lined with mucous membrane.
- esophoria — (ophthalmology) Inward deviation of the eye usually due to extra-ocular muscle imbalance.
- ethiopian — person from Ethiopia
- eucryphia — any tree or shrub of the mostly evergreen genus Eucryphia, native to Australia and S America, having leaves of a dark lustrous green and white flowers: family Eucryphiaceae
- euphausid — (zoology) Any member of the Euphausidae.
- euphorbia — A plant of a genus that comprises the spurges.
- euphrasia — eyebright
- euphrates — a river in SW Asia, rising in E Turkey and flowing south across Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris, forming the Shatt-al-Arab, which flows to the head of the Persian Gulf: important in ancient times for the extensive irrigation of its valley (in Mesopotamia). Length: 3598 km (2235 miles)
- exophoria — (ophthalmology) A form of heterophoria in which there is a tendency of the eyes to deviate outward.
- eye patch — covering for one eye
- feldspath — Alternative form of feldspar.
- fishplate — a metal or wooden plate or slab, bolted to each of two members that have been butted or lapped together.
- galumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of galumph.
- galumpher — a person or animal that leaps or moves heavily or clumsily
- gather up — collect
- geography — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- geophagia — Consumption of clay, chalk or dirt.
- glidepath — the course followed by an aircraft or spacecraft when descending for a landing.
- grapeshot — a cluster of small cast-iron balls formerly used as a charge for a cannon.
- graphemes — Plural form of grapheme.