7-letter words containing p, h, a, n
- inphase — having the same phase.
- ispahan — Isfahan.
- manship — The characteristic of being a man; maleness; masculinity; manliness; manhood.
- morphan — A chemical compound, the base of the benzomorphan family of drugs.
- naphtha — a colorless, volatile petroleum distillate, usually an intermediate product between gasoline and benzine, used as a solvent, fuel, etc. Compare mineral spirits.
- np-hard — (complexity) A set or property of computational search problems. A problem is NP-hard if solving it in polynomial time would make it possible to solve all problems in class NP in polynomial time. Some NP-hard problems are also in NP (these are called "NP-complete"), some are not. If you could reduce an NP problem to an NP-hard problem and then solve it in polynomial time, you could solve all NP problems. See also computational complexity.
- nymphae — Anatomy. one of the inner labia of the vulva.
- nymphal — Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs.
- orphans — Plural form of orphan.
- orphean — Greek Legend. a poet and musician, a son of Calliope, who followed his dead wife, Eurydice, to the underworld. By charming Hades, he obtained permission to lead her away, provided he did not look back at her until they returned to earth. But at the last moment he looked, and she was lost to him forever.
- pa chin — (Li Fei-kan) Ba Jin.
- pahouin — Fang (def 1).
- panache — a grand or flamboyant manner; verve; style; flair: The actor who would play Cyrano must have panache.
- panchax — any of a variety of colorful tropical Old World fishes of the genus Aplocheilus and related genera: popular in home aquariums.
- panfish — any small, freshwater nongame food fish, as a perch or sunfish, usually eaten pan-fried.
- panhead — a rivet or screw head having the form of a truncated cone.
- panhoss — pannhas.
- pannhas — scrapple.
- panocha — Also, penuche. a coarse grade of sugar made in Mexico.
- panoche — Also, penuche. a coarse grade of sugar made in Mexico.
- panther — the cougar or puma, Felis concolor.
- paoshan — a town in W Yunnan province, in S China, on the Burma Road.
- paphian — of or relating to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus sacred to Aphrodite.
- pashtun — of or relating to the Pashto-speaking people of Afghanistan and NW Pakistan
- patchen — Kenneth, 1911–72, U.S. poet and novelist.
- paunchy — having a large and protruding belly; potbellied: a paunchy middle-aged man.
- phaenna — one of the Graces worshiped at Sparta.
- phaeton — any of various light, four-wheeled carriages, with or without a top, having one or two seats facing forward, used in the 19th century.
- phalanx — (in ancient Greece) a group of heavily armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep, with shields joined and long spears overlapping.
- phallin — an element that is found in the death cap toadstool that was originally suspected as being the poisonous essence of the fungus
- phantom — an apparition or specter.
- pharynx — the tube or cavity, with its surrounding membrane and muscles, that connects the mouth and nasal passages with the esophagus.
- phasing — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phenate — a phenic acid salt
- phidian — of, associated with, or following the style of Phidias, as exemplified in the Parthenon.
- phineas — a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “serpent's mouth or oracle.”.
- phonate — to articulate speech sounds, esp to cause the vocal cords to vibrate in the execution of a voiced speech sound
- phytane — a hydrocarbon found in some fossilized plant remains
- pinhead — the head of a pin.
- pinkham — Lydia (Estes) 1819–83, U.S. businesswoman: manufactured patent medicine.
- piranha — any of several small South American freshwater fishes of the genus Serrasalmus that eat other fish and sometimes plants but occasionally also attack humans and other large animals that enter the water.
- planche — a flat piece of metal, stone, or baked clay, used as a tray in an enameling oven.
- planish — to give a smooth finish to (metal) by striking lightly with a smoothly faced hammer or die.
- punakha — a town in W central Bhutan: a former capital of the country
- pupunha — the palm Bactris gasipaes, cultivated in tropical America; its large red and orange fruit, which is edible when cooked
- pythian — Also, Pythic. of or relating to Delphi, in ancient Greece.
- saphena — saphenous vein.
- shaping — the quality of a distinct object or body in having an external surface or outline of specific form or figure.
- sharpen — knife: make sharper
- shipman — a sailor.