9-letter words containing p, h, a, l
- cash plan — A cash plan is money paid towards the insured’s optical or dental costs, and also admission to a hospital.
- cataphyll — a simplified form of plant leaf, such as a scale leaf or cotyledon
- catchpole — (in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors
- catchpoll — (formerly) a petty officer of justice, especially one arresting persons for debt.
- cephalate — (of living organisms) possessing a head or headlike feature
- cephalgia — (medicine) headache.
- cephalins — Plural form of cephalin.
- cephaloid — Shaped like the head or the brain.
- cephalous — having a head
- chaliapin — Fyodor Ivanovich (ˈfjɔdər iˈvanəvitʃ). 1873–1938, Russian operatic bass singer
- chalkpits — Plural form of chalkpit.
- champlain — Samuel de (samyɛl də). ?1567–1635, French explorer; founder of Quebec (1608) and governor of New France (1633–35)
- champleve — of or relating to a process of enamelling by which grooves are cut into a metal base and filled with enamel colours
- chaparral — (in the southwestern US) a dense growth of shrubs and trees, esp evergreen oaks
- chaplains — Plural form of chaplain.
- chapleted — wearing a wreath or garland on the head
- chapparal — Archaic spelling of chaparral.
- chapteral — of or pertaining to a chapter
- chipolata — a small sausage in a narrow casing
- chippable — having the ability to be reduced to small pieces
- classpath — (programming) an argument that tells the Java virtual machine where to look for user-defined classes and packages when running Java programs.
- cloth cap — A cloth cap is a soft flat cap with a stiff, curved part at the front called a peak. Cloth caps are usually worn by men.
- cloth-cap — pertaining to or characteristic of the working class.
- coliphage — a bacteriophage
- cyclepath — a special path for the exclusive use of cyclists
- dec alpha — (processor) A RISC microprocessor from DEC. In November 1995, the Alpha was purportedly the fastest non-research chip used in commonly available workstations. It is superpipelined and superscalar. In February 1996 it was clocked at 200 MHz and in March 1998 at 666 MHz.
- delphinia — an ancient Greek festival in honor of Apollo.
- dutch lap — a method of laying shingles, slates, or the like, in which each shingle or slate overlaps those below and to one side and is itself overlapped by those above and to the other side.
- el(alpha) — Aims to be a high-level language that knows about real hardware, for systems programming. "Essential Language el(alpha) - A Reduced Expression Set Language for Systems Programming", T. Watanabe et al, SIGPLAN Notices 26(1):85-98.
- elephants — Plural form of elephant.
- encephala — Plural form of encephalon.
- eparchial — Of or pertaining to an eparchy.
- ephemeral — An ephemeral plant.
- ephialtes — (obsolete) an incubus; a nightmare.
- ephippial — Saddle-shaped; occupying an ephippium.
- ephoralty — an ephor's office
- 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.
- 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.
- flagships — Plural form of flagship.
- flak ship — a ship heavily armed with anti-aircraft weapons, used to protect other vessels from air attack
- flashlamp — an electric lamp, usually containing xenon or another noble gas, used to produce a brief flash or pulsed flashes of intense light, such as that used in a camera flash
- flipchart — A flipchart is a stand with large sheets of paper which is used when presenting information at a meeting.
- galumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of galumph.
- galumpher — a person or animal that leaps or moves heavily or clumsily
- glasphalt — a road-surfacing material composed of asphalt and crushed glass.
- glidepath — the course followed by an aircraft or spacecraft when descending for a landing.
- graphical — giving a clear and effective picture; vivid: a graphic account of an earthquake.