9-letter words containing p, h, l, s
- flagships — Plural form of flagship.
- flak ship — a ship heavily armed with anti-aircraft weapons, used to protect other vessels from air attack
- flashlamp — an electric lamp, usually containing xenon or another noble gas, used to produce a brief flash or pulsed flashes of intense light, such as that used in a camera flash
- fleshpots — fleshpots. places offering luxurious and unrestrained pleasure or amusement: the fleshpots of Las Vegas. luxurious and unrestrained living.
- flophouse — a cheap, run-down hotel or rooming house.
- foppishly — In a foppish way.
- glasphalt — a road-surfacing material composed of asphalt and crushed glass.
- guildship — guild (defs 1, 2).
- half step — Music. semitone.
- half-slip — a woman's skirtlike undergarment, usually of a straight or slightly flared shape and having a narrow elasticized waistband.
- half-step — Music. semitone.
- halfpipes — Plural form of halfpipe.
- hall pass — permit to leave classroom
- handclaps — Plural form of handclap.
- handclasp — a gripping of hands by two or more people, as in greeting, parting, making a commitment, or expressing affection.
- haplessly — In a hapless manner.
- harp seal — a northern earless seal, Pagophilus groenlandicus, with pale-yellow fur darkening to gray with age, of coasts, drifting ice, and seas of the North Atlantic Ocean, hunted for its fur.
- headlamps — Plural form of headlamp.
- heelposts — Plural form of heelpost.
- heliopsis — a genus of herbaceous flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae
- heliports — Plural form of heliport.
- helistops — Plural form of helistop.
- hellspawn — (fantasy) A creature or creatures from Hell.
- help desk — A help desk is a special service that you can telephone or e-mail in order to get information about a particular product or subject.
- helplines — Plural form of helpline.
- helpmates — (British) Plural form of helpmate.
- helpmeets — Plural form of helpmeet.
- hip flask — small container for carrying alcohol
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- homoplasy — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
- horseplay — rough or boisterous play or pranks.
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitals — Plural form of hospital.
- hotplates — Plural form of hotplate.
- hustle up — to prepare quickly
- hypoblast — the endoderm.
- hypostyle — having many columns carrying the roof or ceiling: a hypostyle hall.
- isophotal — relating to an isophote or isophotes, or to a diagram on which isophotes are represented
- isopleths — Plural form of isopleth.
- ispaghula — dietary fibre derived from the seed husks of Plantago orata and used as a thickener or stabilizer in the food industry
- klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
- lairdship — the condition of being a laird, or the rank of laird
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lampshade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- lampshell — Alternative form of lamp shell.
- leptophos — a solid compound, C 13 H 10 BrCl 2 O 2 PS, used as a nonsystemic insecticide for food crops and lawn grass.
- lightship — a ship anchored in a specific location and displaying or flashing a very bright light for the guidance of ships, as in avoiding dangerous areas. Abbreviation: LS.
- linchpins — Plural form of linchpin.
- lip-synch — the technical process by which this is done.
- longships — Plural form of longship.