8-letter words containing p, h, i, m
- malpighi — Marcello [mahr-chel-law] /mɑrˈtʃɛl lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1628–94, Italian anatomist.
- mateship — the state of being a mate.
- memphian — a native or inhabitant of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.
- memphite — Also, Memphitic [mem-fit-ik] /mɛmˈfɪt ɪk/ (Show IPA). of or relating to the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis.
- mephisto — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- mephitic — offensive to the smell.
- mephitis — (in nontechnical use) a noxious or pestilential exhalation from the earth, as poison gas.
- midships — amidships.
- mis-ship — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- mispatch — to patch wrongly
- misshape — to shape badly or wrongly; deform.
- moonship — a lunar module
- morphine — a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, C 1 7 H 1 9 NO 3 ⋅H 2 O, the most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
- morphing — Linguistics. a sequence of phonemes constituting a minimal unit of grammar or syntax, and, as such, a representation, member, or contextual variant of a morpheme in a specific environment. Compare allomorph (def 2).
- morphism — (mathematics, formally) an arrow in a category.
- mosh pit — Slang. an area usually in front of a stage where people mosh at rock concerts.
- multihop — (networking) Proceeding in multiple hops.
- murphies — Plural form of murphy.
- myophily — pollination of plants by flies
- nephrism — chronic kidney disease, renal failure
- nymphoid — Of or pertaining to a nymph.
- omphalic — Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
- ophidism — Poisoning by snake venom.
- opsimath — (rare) A person who learns late in life.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed., 2004.
- pashmina — a fabric or garment made from pashm, especially a shawl, wrap, or scarf.
- pharming — the process of producing medically useful products from genetically modified plants and animals.
- philemon — an Epistle written by Paul. Abbreviation: Phil.
- philomel — the nightingale.
- philomot — having the same colour as that of a dead leaf
- philtrum — Anatomy. the vertical groove on the surface of the upper lip, below the septum of the nose.
- phimosis — constriction of the orifice of the prepuce so as to prevent the foreskin from being drawn back to uncover the glans penis.
- phimotic — constriction of the orifice of the prepuce so as to prevent the foreskin from being drawn back to uncover the glans penis.
- phonemic — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- phorminx — an ancient Greek stringed musical instrument of the lyre family
- phormium — any plant of the New Zealand bulbous genus Phormium, with leathery evergreen leaves and red or yellow flowers in panicles
- phrenism — one of the three vital forces, which are non-physical life forces. Phrenism is the thought force, as opposed to neurism, the nerve force, and bathmism, the growth force.
- pichurim — a Brazilian laurel tree
- pitchman — an itinerant vendor of small wares that are usually carried in a case with collapsible legs, allowing it to be set up or removed quickly.
- plumpish — somewhat plump; tending to plumpness.
- pochismo — an English word or expression borrowed into Spanish; a Spanish word showing U.S. influence.
- psephism — (in ancient Athens) a proposition adopted by a majority vote in the public assembly
- psychism — the belief in a universal soul; the attributing of souls to inanimate objects or phenomena
- pygmyish — resembling a pygmy
- samphire — a European succulent plant, Crithmum maritimum, of the parsley family, having compound leaves and small, whitish flowers, growing in clefts of rock near the sea.
- sapphism — lesbianism.
- scampish — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
- seraphim — a plural of seraph.
- shipmate — a person who serves with another on the same vessel.
- shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- shipworm — any of various wormlike marine bivalve mollusks that burrow into the timbers of ship, wharves, etc.