8-letter words containing p, h, a, r
- hesperia — a poetic name used by the ancient Greeks for Italy and by the Romans for Spain or beyond
- hipparch — (in ancient Greece) a cavalry commander
- hospodar — a former title of governors or princes of Wallachia and Moldavia.
- hydropac — an urgent warning of navigational dangers in the Pacific Ocean, issued by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office.
- isograph — (in the study of the geographical distribution of a dialect) a line drawn on a map to indicate areas having common linguistic characteristics.
- jatropha — Any of several plants, of the genus Jatropha, native to the Northern Hemisphere; some have medicinal attributes and others are grown as a source of biodiesel.
- jaw harp — jew's-harp
- kapparah — a ritual performed by some Orthodox Jews before Yom Kippur that consists of swinging a fowl around the head and reciting prayers that symbolically transfer the person's sins to the fowl.
- kolhapur — a city in S Maharashtra, in SW India.
- kreplach — Jewish Cookery. turnovers or pockets of noodle dough filled with any of several mixtures, as kasha or chopped chicken livers, usually boiled, and served in soup.
- malaphor — (rare neologism) An idiom blend: an error in which two similar figures of speech are merged, producing a nonsensical result.
- metaphor — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- myograph — an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.
- nenuphar — A water lily, especially the European white water lily (Nymphaea alba) or the yellow water lily (Nuphar lutea).
- nishapur — a town in NE Iran: the birthplace of Omar Khayyám.
- odograph — a recording odometer.
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- overheap — to supply too much
- pamphrey — a cabbage
- panthera — a genus of chiefly large cats that includes the snow leopard, tiger, leopard, jaguar, and lion, most having the ability to roar.
- papisher — a Roman Catholic
- parachor — a scientific quantity defined by a formula involving surface tension, mass, and density
- parashah — a portion of the Torah chanted or read each week in the synagogue on the Sabbath.
- parching — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- parishen — a parishioner
- parochin — a parish
- parthian — a native or inhabitant of Parthia.
- patchery — the act of hurriedly patching something together
- pear haw — a shrub or small tree, Crataegus uniflora, of the eastern and southern coastal areas of the U.S., having pear-shaped, orange-red fruit.
- pearlash — commercial potassium carbonate.
- pentarch — a government by five persons.
- perianth — the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- peshawar — a province in Pakistan, bordering Punjab and Kashmir on the west: a former province of British India. 28,773 sq. mi. (77,516 sq. km). Capital: Peshawar.
- petchary — a grey kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis
- petrarch — (Francesco Petrarca) 1304–74, Italian poet and scholar.
- phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
- pharaohs — a title of an ancient Egyptian king.
- pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
- pharmacy — Also called pharmaceutics. the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines.
- pharming — the process of producing medically useful products from genetically modified plants and animals.
- phrasing — 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.
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- phrygana — another name for garigue, used esp in Greece
- phrygian — of or relating to Phrygia, its people, or their language.
- phylarch — the chief of a tribe in Ancient Greece, and in Athens, the head of a clan in battle, or generally, the chief of a tribe
- phyllary — one of the bracts forming the involucre or the head or inflorescence of a composite plant.
- pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
- pilchard — a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.