9-letter words containing p, h, e, s
- oospheres — Plural form of oosphere.
- open shop — a factory, office, or other business establishment in which a union, chosen by a majority of the employees, acts as representative of all the employees in making agreements with the employer, but in which union membership is not a condition of employment.
- osteopath — a physician who practices osteopathy.
- oversharp — too sharp
- ownership — the state or fact of being an owner.
- packhorse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- packsheet — a cloth used for packing goods
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- pantheism — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- pantheist — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
- pantihose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- pantyhose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
- parcheesi — a modern board game derived from the ancient game of pachisi
- parrhesia — boldness or frankness of speech; the act of asking forgiveness for speaking in such a way
- parthenos — an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”.
- pathogens — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
- pc-scheme — Version 3.03 compiler, debugger, profiler, editor, libraries Written at Texas Instruments. Runs on MS-DOS 286/386 IBM PCs and compatibles. Includes an optimising compiler, an emacs-like editor, inspector, debugger, performance testing, foreign function interface, window system and an object-oriented subsystem. Also supports the dialect used in Hal Abelson and Gerald Sussman's SICP. Conformance: Revised^3 Report, also supports dialect used in SICP. restriction: official version is $95, contact <[email protected]> See also PCS/Geneva.
- pea shrub — any of various small trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Caragana, of the legume family, native to central Asia, having showy, usually yellow flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- pearl ash — the granular crystalline form of potassium carbonate
- pearlfish — any of several small fishes of the family Carapidae, living within pearl oysters, sea cucumbers, starfishes, etc.
- peep show — a display of objects or pictures viewed through a small opening that is usually fitted with a magnifying lens.
- peep-show — a display of objects or pictures viewed through a small opening that is usually fitted with a magnifying lens.
- pemphigus — any of several diseases, often fatal, characterized by blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- penpusher — pencil pusher.
- penthouse — an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls.
- pepperish — a pungent condiment obtained from various plants of the genus Piper, especially from the dried berries, used whole or ground, of the tropical climbing shrub P. nigrum.
- perishing — causing destruction, ruin, extreme discomfort, or death: lost in the perishing cold.
- peshmerga — a member of the armed forces in the autonomous Kurdish-controlled region of NE Iraq
- pesthouse — a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.
- petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
- phagosome — a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
- phalanges — a plural of phalanx.
- phalluses — 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.
- pharisees — 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.
- phase out — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- phasedown — an act or instance of phasing down; gradual reduction.
- phaseolin — a type of proteid that is present in the kidney bean
- phenakism — a form of deceit or craftiness
- phenetics — classification of organisms based on measurable similarities and differences rather than genetic makeup and evolutionary descent.
- phenolics — any of the class of thermosetting resins formed by the condensation of phenol, or of a phenol derivative, with an aldehyde, especially formaldehyde: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and plastics and as adhesives for sandpaper and plywood.
- philhorse — the horse, in a group of horses that are used to pull a carriage etc, which is at the back and nearest the object being pulled
- phlebitis — inflammation of a vein, often occurring in the legs and involving the formation of a thrombus, characterized by swelling, pain, and change of skin color.
- phone sex — sexually explicit conversations engaged in on a telephone, usually for a fee.
- phonemics — the study of phonemes and phonemic systems.
- phonetics — (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
- phonetism — the science of speech sounds and of writing phonetically
- phonetist — a person who uses or advocates phonetic spelling.
- phoniness — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- phosphate — Chemistry. (loosely) a salt or ester of phosphoric acid. a tertiary salt of orthophosphoric acid, as sodium phosphate.
- phosphene — a luminous image produced by mechanical stimulation of the retina, as by pressure applied to the eyeball by the finger when the lid is closed.