6-letter words containing p, h, a
- pardah — the seclusion of women from the sight of men or strangers, practiced by some Muslims and Hindus.
- pariah — an outcast.
- parish — an ecclesiastical district having its own church and member of the clergy.
- pashka — a rich Russian dessert made of cottage cheese, cream, almonds, currants, etc, set in a special wooden mould and traditionally eaten at Easter
- pashto — an Indo-European, Iranian language that is the official language of Afghanistan and the chief vernacular of the eastern part of the nation.
- paskha — an Easter dessert of pot cheese mixed with sugar, butter, cream, raisins, nuts, etc., and pressed into a pyramidal mold: usually served with kulich.
- patchy — characterized by or made up of patches.
- pathan — Afghan (def 1).
- pathic — a catamite
- patho- — disease
- pathol — pathological
- pathos — the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity, or of sympathetic and kindly sorrow or compassion.
- paunch — a large and protruding belly; potbelly.
- peachy — resembling a peach, as in color or appearance.
- peahen — the female peafowl.
- pelham — a bit that is used with two pairs of reins, designed to serve the purpose of a full bridle.
- pesach — Passover (def 1).
- phaedo — a philosophical dialogue (4th century b.c.) by Plato, purporting to describe the death of Socrates, dealing with the immortality of the soul, and setting forth the theory of Ideas.
- phaeic — (of animals) having dusky coloration; less dark than melanic
- phago- — eating, consuming, or destroying
- phalli — an image of the male reproductive organ, especially that carried in procession in ancient festivals of Dionysus, or Bacchus, symbolizing the generative power in nature.
- pharma — a pharmaceutical company.
- pharos — a small peninsula in N Egypt, near Alexandria: site of ancient lighthouse built by Ptolemy.
- phased — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phasic — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phasis — a manner, stage, or aspect of being; phase.
- phasor — a vector that represents a sinusoidally varying quantity, as a current or voltage, by means of a line rotating about a point in a plane, the magnitude of the quantity being proportional to the length of the line and the phase of the quantity being equal to the angle between the line and a reference line.
- phater — Slang. great; wonderful; terrific.
- phatic — denoting speech used to express or create an atmosphere of shared feelings, goodwill, or sociability rather than to impart information: phatic communion.
- pherae — (in ancient geography) a town in SE Thessaly: the home of Admetus and Alcestis.
- phiale — a shallow cup resembling a saucer, having a central boss and sometimes set upon a foot, used as a drinking vessel or to pour libations.
- philae — an island in the Nile, in Upper Egypt: the site of ancient temples; now submerged by the waters of Lake Nasser.
- phobia — a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it.
- pholas — a type of bivalve mollusc that is a member of the genus Pholas and family Pholadidae
- phonal — a speech sound: There are three phonetically different “t” phones in an utterance of “titillate,” and two in an utterance of “tattletale.”.
- phrase — 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.
- phrasy — characterized by the use of many phrases
- phreak — phone phreak.
- phwoar — an admiring sound, roughly same as 'cor'; used to denote sexual attraction to another person
- phylar — of or relating to a major taxonomic division of living organisms that contain one or more classes
- pisgah — Mount, a mountain ridge of ancient Moab, now in Jordan, NE of the Dead Sea: from its summit (Mt. Nebo) Moses viewed the Promised Land. Deut. 34:1.
- planch — a flat piece of metal, stone, or baked clay, used as a tray in an enameling oven.
- plashy — marshy; wet.
- pleach — to interweave (branches, vines, etc.), as for a hedge or arbor.
- po hai — Bo Hai
- poachy — (of land) slushy; swampy.
- pochay — to transport by post-chaise
- pohang — a port city in SE South Korea.
- poisha — an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Bangladesh, the 100th part of a taka.
- poobah — Pooh Bah.