0%

8-letter words containing p, h, a

  • plainish — rather ordinary-looking
  • planchet — a flat piece of metal for stamping as a coin; a coin blank.
  • plashing — a gentle splash.
  • play-doh — Play-Doh is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
  • pleached — having interlaced stems or boughs
  • pleather — a synthetic leather
  • plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
  • plug hat — plug (def 19).
  • plutarch — a.d. c46–c120, Greek biographer.
  • poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
  • polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
  • polymath — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
  • pooh bah — a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
  • pooh-bah — a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
  • postheat — to heat (a metal piece, as a weld) after working, so as to relieve stresses.
  • pot arch — an auxiliary furnace in which pots used in melting frit are preheated.
  • potiphar — the Egyptian officer whose wife tried to seduce Joseph. Gen. 39:1–20.
  • potlatch — (among American Indians of the northern Pacific coast, especially the Kwakiutl) a ceremonial festival at which gifts are bestowed on the guests and property is destroyed by its owner in a show of wealth that the guests later attempt to surpass.
  • powhatan — a member of any of the Indian tribes belonging to the Powhatan Confederacy.
  • prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
  • preacher — a person whose occupation or function it is to preach the gospel.
  • precrash — of or pertaining to the period before a crash, esp of a motor vehicle; coming into effect or being deployed prior to a crash
  • predeath — occurring before or in the lead-up to death; of or pertaining to the period immediately prior to death
  • prehuman — preceding the appearance or existence of human beings: the prehuman ages.
  • preshape — to shape beforehand so as to be ready for use
  • preshave — a liquid preparation, usually containing alcohol, for applying to the face to dry the skin and beard before shaving with an electric razor.
  • prichard — a city in S Alabama.
  • prograph — (language)   A visual dataflow programming language and environment from the Technical University of Halifax. Prograph is an entirely graphical visual programming language, other than for the text of method names, and supports the program development process in a highly-interactive fashion. Operation icons are connected by data links through which information flows. It supports object orientation via class-based data abstraction with single inheritance. Prograph is available for the Macintosh, and soon for Windows and Unix, from TGS Systems.
  • prophage — a stable, inherited form of bacteriophage in which the genetic material of the virus is integrated into, replicated, and expressed with the genetic material of the bacterial host.
  • prophase — Cell Biology. the first stage of mitosis or meiosis in eukaryotic cell division, during which the nuclear envelope breaks down and strands of chromatin form into chromosomes.
  • pthreads — POSIX Threads
  • pugachov — Yemelyan Ivanovich. 1726–75, Russian Cossack rebel, leader of a major revolt against the government of Catherine II: executed
  • punchbag — A punchbag is a heavy leather bag, filled with a firm material, that hangs on a rope. Punchbags are used by boxers and other sportsmen for exercise and training.
  • purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • pushback — a mechanism that forces an object backward.
  • pushball — a game played with a large, heavy ball, usually about 6 feet (1.8 meters) in diameter, which two sides attempt to push to opposite goals.
  • pushcard — punchboard.
  • pushcart — any of various types of wheeled light cart to be pushed by hand, as one used by street vendors.
  • pyorrhea — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
  • ramphele — Mamphela. born 1947, Black South African political activist: partner of Steve Biko; a director of the World Bank (2000–04); founded the political party Agang (2013)
  • randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
  • raphania — a type of ergotism possibly resulting from ingestion of the poison from radish seeds
  • rathripe — mature or ripe ahead of time
  • reaphook — a sickle
  • rephrase — to phrase again or differently: He rephrased the statement to give it less formality.
  • reproach — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
  • reshaper — a person or thing that reshapes
  • rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
  • rhapsody — Music. an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation.
  • rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?