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9-letter words containing p, h, a, l, o

  • photocall — a time arranged for photographers, esp press photographers, to take pictures of a celebrity, the cast of a play, etc, usually for publicity purposes
  • photoplay — a motion-picture scenario; screenplay.
  • phylakopi — an archaeological site on the Greek island of Melos, in the Cyclades group: excavations have revealed the remains of three successive ancient cities erected on a primitive Cycladic settlement.
  • playdough — children's modelling clay
  • playhouse — a theater.
  • plekhanov — Georgi (or Georgy) Valentinovich [gyi-awr-gyee-vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh-vyich] /gyɪˈɔr gyi və lyɪnˈtyi nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1857–1918, Russian philosopher and leader of the Mensheviks.
  • ploughman — A ploughman is a man whose job it is to plough the land, especially with a plough pulled by horses or oxen.
  • plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
  • poachable — able to be poached
  • polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
  • polyantha — a type of clustering flower
  • polyanthi — hybrid garden primroses
  • polyarchy — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
  • polygraph — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • polymathy — learning in many fields; encyclopedic knowledge.
  • polyphagy — an insatiable appetite
  • polyphase — having more than one phase.
  • pool hall — poolroom (def 1).
  • rhopalism — the art, skill, or incidence of writing rhopalic verse
  • showplace — an estate, mansion, or the like, usually open to the public, renowned for its beauty, excellent design and workmanship, historical interest, etc.
  • slap shot — a very powerful, fast-moving shot of the puck on goal made with a full backswing of the stick and an extended follow-through.
  • staphylo- — uvula
  • syphiloma — a tumour or gumma caused by infection with syphilis
  • table-hop — to move about in a restaurant, nightclub, or the like, chatting with people at various tables.
  • talk shop — a retail store, especially a small one.
  • tallyshop — a store specializing in selling merchandise on the hire-purchase system.
  • 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.
  • typhoidal — of, relating to, or resembling typhoid.
  • ultraposh — extremely posh
  • xiphoidal — shaped like a sword
  • xylograph — An engraving in wood, especially one used for printing.
  • xylophage — any insect or organism that eats wood
  • zoophilia — the state of being zoophilous.
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