7-letter words containing p, h, a, r
- harumph — An expression of disdain, disbelief, protest, refusal or dismissal.
- heparin — Biochemistry. a polysaccharide, occurring in various tissues, especially the liver, and having anticoagulent properties.
- hypural — relating to the bones of the area below the tail of fish
- morphan — A chemical compound, the base of the benzomorphan family of drugs.
- morphea — (medicine) localized scleroderma.
- morphia — a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 ⋅H 2 O, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
- 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.
- ophiura — a sea creature, similar to a starfish, of the Ophiuridae family
- 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.
- panther — the cougar or puma, Felis concolor.
- paratha — (in Indian cookery) a flat unleavened bread, resembling a small nan bread, that is fried on a griddle
- parched — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- parkish — like or similar to a park
- parrish — Anne, 1888–1957, U.S. novelist and author of books for children.
- parthia — an ancient country in W Asia, SE of the Caspian Sea: conquered by the Persians a.d. 226; now a part of NE Iran.
- pechora — a river in the NE Russian Federation in Europe, flowing from the Ural Mountains to the Arctic Ocean. 1110 miles (1785 km) long.
- perahia — Murray, born 1947, U.S. pianist.
- perchta — the goddess of death and of fertility: sometimes identified with Holle.
- perhaps — maybe; possibly: Perhaps the package will arrive today.
- phacker — (communications, security) A telephone system cracker. A phacker may attempt to gain unauthorised access to a phone system in order to make free or untraceable calls or he may disrupt, alter or illegally tap phone systems via computer. The disruptions may include causing a phone line to be engaged so no calls go in or out, redirecting outgoing or incoming calls, as well as listening to actual calls made. Phackers are frequently confidence tricksters or phone freaks (nuisance callers who can only relate to other people by phone). Phackers are sometimes employed by illegal enterprises to conduct business using untraceable calls, or to disrupt, or follow legal authorities' investigations. Phackers interventions may be lethal to the person being phacked. A phacker may be a phone company employee, or usually, ex-employee who specialises in illegal phone system disruption, alteration or tapping via physically altering installations. A phacker is generally considered to be a socially and intellectually retarded cracker. See Captain Crunch.
- phaedra — the wife of Theseus who fell in love with Hippolytus, her stepson, and eventually hanged herself after causing his death.
- phalera — a metal disk or boss worn on a man's breast as an ornament or as a military decoration or used to adorn the harness of a horse.
- pharaoh — a title of an ancient Egyptian king.
- pharynx — the tube or cavity, with its surrounding membrane and muscles, that connects the mouth and nasal passages with the esophagus.
- philtra — Anatomy. the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip, below the septum of the nose.
- phorate — a systemic insecticide, C 7 H 1 7 O 2 PS 3 , used especially as a soil treatment for the control of numerous crop-damaging insects.
- phrasal — of, consisting of, or of the nature of a phrase or phrases: phrasal construction.
- phrased — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrases — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phratry — a grouping of clans or other social units within a tribe.
- phrygia — an ancient country in central and NW Asia Minor.
- 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.
- plasher — a person who forms hedges by means of interweaving the branches or vines
- poacher — a pan having a tight-fitting lid and metal cups for steaming or poaching eggs.
- pochard — an Old World diving duck, Aythya ferina, having a chestnut-red head.
- pradesh — a state, esp a state in the Union of India
- preachy — tediously or pretentiously didactic.
- preheat — to heat before using or before subjecting to some further process: to preheat an oven before baking a cake.
- prewash — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
- psather — (language) A parallel extension of Sather for a clustered shared memory model. It features threads synchronised by monitor objects ("gates"); locality assertions and placement operators. There is an implementation for the CM-5.
- purbach — a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 75 miles (120 km) in diameter.
- purchas — Samuel, 1575?–1626, English writer and editor of travel books.
- purusha — (in Sankhya and Yoga) one's true self, regarded as eternal and unaffected by external happenings.
- ralph's — a male given name: from Old Norse words meaning “counsel” and “wolf.”.
- ramphal — Sir Shridath Surendranath, known as Sunni. born 1928, Guyanese diplomat and Commonwealth Secretary-General (1975–90)
- raphael — (Raffaello Santi or Sanzio) 1483–1520, Italian painter.
- raphide — any of numerous needle-shaped crystals, usually of calcium oxalate, that occur in many plant cells as a metabolic product
- raploch — a coarse homespun woollen material
- regraph — a diagram representing a system of connections or interrelations among two or more things by a number of distinctive dots, lines, bars, etc.