8-letter words containing p, h, a, r
- dpsather — Data-parallel Sather. deterministic fine-grained parallelism. E-mail: <[email protected]>. ftp://lynx.csis.dit.csiro.au/p/pub/ather/dpsather.papers.
- dramshop — bar; barroom; saloon.
- drophead — (British) Shortened form of 'drophead coupé'.
- earlship — earldom (def 1).
- earphone — a sound receiver that fits in or over the ear, as of a radio or telephone.
- earth up — to cover (part of a plant, esp the stem) with soil in order to protect from frost, light, etc
- earthpea — the peanut.
- ephemera — Things that exist or are used or enjoyed for only a short time.
- ephorate — The office of an ephor; ephors collectively.
- epigraph — An inscription on a building, statue, or coin.
- epiphora — Excessive watering of the eye.
- ethercap — a spider
- euphoria — A feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness.
- euphrasy — eyebright
- exophora — Reference in a text or utterance to something external to it, which is only fully intelligible in terms of information about the extralinguistic situation.
- grapheme — a minimal unit of a writing system.
- graphene — A fullerene consisting of bonded carbon atoms in sheet form one atom thick.
- graphics — a product of the graphic arts, as a drawing or print.
- graphing — Present participle of graph.
- graphite — a very common mineral, soft native carbon, occurring in black to dark-gray foliated masses, with metallic luster and greasy feel: used for pencil leads, as a lubricant, and for making crucibles and other refractories; plumbago; black lead.
- graphium — a writing stylus
- hairclip — A clip to hold back the hair.
- hairgrip — A flat hairpin having two prongs that hold bobbed hair together.
- hairpins — Plural form of hairpin.
- hamerkop — Alternative spelling of hammerkop.
- hampered — Hinder or impede the movement or progress of.
- hampster — Alternative form of hamster.
- handgrip — the grip or clasp of a hand, as in greeting: a firm but friendly handgrip.
- haphtara — the part of the Prophets read in synagogue services on the Sabbath and certain major holy days: the selection is related to the part of the Pentateuch read just before it
- hapsburg — a German princely family, prominent since the 13th century, that has furnished sovereigns to the Holy Roman Empire, Austria, Spain, etc.
- hapteron — a structure by which a fungus, aquatic plant, or algae colony attaches to an object; a holdfast.
- harappan — of or relating to Harappa, especially the Bronze Age culture of the Indus valley civilization.
- hard bop — an aggressive, driving, hot style of modern jazz developed by East Coast musicians in the late 1950s as a rejection of the more relaxed, cool style of West Coast jazz. Compare bop1 , cool jazz, modern jazz, progressive jazz.
- hard pad — (in dogs) an abnormal increase in the thickness of the foot pads: one of the clinical signs of canine distemper
- hard put — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
- hard top — A hard top is a vehicle that has a permanent rigid roof.
- hard-put — hard (def 57).
- hardcopy — copy, as computer output printed on paper, that can be read without using a special device (opposed to soft copy).
- hardpack — a bag that has a rigid shell
- hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
- hardtops — Plural form of hardtop.
- harelips — Plural form of harelip.
- harpagon — (obsolete) a grappling hook.
- harpings — any of several horizontal members at the ends of a vessel for holding cant frames in position until the shell planking or plating is attached.
- harpists — Plural form of harpist.
- harpoons — Plural form of harpoon.
- harrumph — to clear the throat audibly in a self-important manner: The professor harrumphed good-naturedly.
- haruspex — (in ancient Rome) one of a class of minor priests who practiced divination, especially from the entrails of animals killed in sacrifice.
- headrope — the part of a bolt-rope attached to the head of a sail
- heptarch — A heptarchist.