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9-letter words containing p, h, a, r

  • atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
  • atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
  • autograph — An autograph is the signature of someone famous which is specially written for a fan to keep.
  • autotroph — any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists.
  • auxotroph — a mutant strain of microorganism having nutritional requirements additional to those of the normal organism
  • bar graph — A bar graph is the same as a bar chart.
  • barhopped — Simple past tense and past participle of barhop.
  • barograph — a self-recording aneroid barometer
  • barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
  • bhagalpur — a city in India, in Bihar: agriculture, textiles, university (1960). Pop: 340 349 (2001)
  • bhaktapur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
  • biography — A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
  • blepharo- — eyelid, eyelids
  • bolograph — a record made by a bolometer
  • campshirt — a loose, short-sleeved shirt or blouse with an open collar
  • canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
  • cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
  • car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
  • cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
  • cardpunch — a device, no longer widely used, controlled by a computer, for transferring information from the central processing unit onto punched cards
  • cardsharp — a professional card player who cheats
  • cash crop — A cash crop is a crop that is grown in order to be sold.
  • cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
  • cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
  • champerty — (formerly) an illegal bargain between a party to litigation and an outsider whereby the latter agrees to pay for the action and thereby share in any proceeds recovered
  • chaparral — (in the southwestern US) a dense growth of shrubs and trees, esp evergreen oaks
  • chaperone — A chaperone is someone who accompanies another person somewhere in order to make sure that they do not come to any harm.
  • chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
  • chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
  • chapparal — Archaic spelling of chaparral.
  • chaprassi — an office worker or doorman
  • chapter 7 — the statute regarding liquidation proceedings that empowers a court to appoint a trustee to operate a failing business to prevent further loss
  • chapteral — of or pertaining to a chapter
  • chaptered — a main division of a book, treatise, or the like, usually bearing a number or title.
  • charge up — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
  • chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
  • cheapener — One who cheapens.
  • chinstrap — a strap that goes under the chin
  • chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
  • chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
  • chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
  • crampfish — a ray of the order Torpediniformes with electric organs on either side of its head
  • crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
  • crash pad — a place to live or sleep temporarily
  • crisphead — a variety of lettuce with a dense cabbage-like head and mild crunchy leaves
  • cymograph — an instrument for tracing the outline of an architectural moulding
  • deathtrap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a deathtrap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
  • departeth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'depart'.
  • diagraphs — Plural form of diagraph.
  • diaphragm — Your diaphragm is a muscle between your lungs and your stomach. It is used when you breathe.
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