9-letter words containing p, h, l
- mail path — source route
- malpighia — (botany) Any of the genus Malpighia of tropical American shrubs.
- malt shop — a retail establishment specializing in serving ice-cream drinks, as malted milks, milk shakes, and sodas.
- manhelper — a long pole for holding a paintbrush, used in painting areas otherwise out of ordinary reach.
- matchplay — Alternative form of match play.
- megaphyll — the relatively large type of leaf produced by ferns and seed plants
- melaphyre — a type of dark igneous rock embedded with feldspar crystals, related to basalt.
- melphalan — A particular drug used in chemotherapy.
- mesophile — mesophilic.
- mesophyll — the parenchyma, usually containing chlorophyll, that forms the interior parts of a leaf.
- monophyly — (systematics) In cladistics, the condition of being monophyletic, of including all descendants from a given ancestral species.
- mophandle — The handle of a mop.
- mphahlele — Ezekiel (Es'kia Mphahlele) 1919–2008, South African writer.
- multipath — a way beaten, formed, or trodden by the feet of persons or animals.
- mumpishly — in a mumpish manner
- mycophile — A person who likes hunting for, cooking or eating mushrooms and other edible fungi.
- naphthols — Plural form of naphthol.
- necrophil — person who is sexually attracted to dead bodies
- negrophil — a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
- nemophila — any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae
- neophilia — Love of new things.
- nephalism — teetotalism; abstinence from alcohol
- nephalist — (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
- nepheline — a feldspathoid mineral, essentially sodium aluminum silicate, NaAlSiO 4 , occurring in alkali-rich volcanic rocks.
- nephology — The study or contemplation of clouds.
- notaphily — the collecting of bank notes as a hobby.
- nymphalid — a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, comprising the brush-footed butterflies.
- nymphlike — Resembling a nymph.
- oenophile — a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
- oenophily — a liking for or expert knowledge of wine
- oil patch — an area in which oil is produced.
- oleograph — a chromolithograph printed in oil colors on canvas or cloth.
- omphaloid — resembling or similar to the navel
- ophiolite — an assemblage of mafic igneous rocks representing remnants of former oceanic crust.
- ophiology — the branch of herpetology dealing with snakes.
- opthalmic — Misspelling of ophthalmic.
- oxyphilic — acidophilic.
- pachelbel — Johann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/ (Show IPA), 1653–1706, German organist and composer.
- packcloth — a cloth used for packing
- paleolith — a paleolithic stone implement.
- palm chat — a passerine bird, Dulus dominicus, of Hispaniola and Gonave, in the West Indies, noted for its huge, communal nest, occupied by several pairs of birds.
- palmhouse — a greenhouse for growing tropical plants, esp palms
- pamphylia — an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- panhandle — the handle of a pan.
- panthenol — pantothenyl alcohol
- parchedly — in a parched manner
- parfleche — a rawhide that has been dried after having been soaked in a solution of lye and water to remove the hair.
- parhelion — a bright circular spot on a solar halo; a mock sun: usually one of two or more such spots seen on opposite sides of the sun, and often accompanied by additional luminous arcs and bands.
- parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
- paschal i — died a.d. 824, pope 817–824.