8-letter words containing p, h, o, r
- nephroid — kidney-shaped
- nephrons — Plural form of nephron.
- no-hoper — a useless person from whom nothing can be expected.
- northrop — John Howard, 1891–1987, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1946.
- northrup — a male given name.
- odograph — a recording odometer.
- oophoro- — ovary or ovaries
- oophoron — an ovary
- oosphere — an unfertilized egg within an oogonium.
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- orthoepy — the study of correct pronunciation.
- orthopod — an orthopedist.
- overheap — to supply too much
- overhope — excessive hope
- overhype — to promote excessively
- parachor — a scientific quantity defined by a formula involving surface tension, mass, and density
- parochin — a parish
- pharaohs — a title of an ancient Egyptian king.
- 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
- phoronid — any member of the invertebrate phylum Phoronida, wormlike marine animals living in a chitinous tube and having an anterior structure bearing ciliated tentacles for feeding.
- phosphor — the morning star, especially Venus.
- piroshki — small turnovers or dumplings with a filling, as of meat or fruit.
- pirozhki — small triangular pastries filled with meat, vegetables, etc
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- poechore — a dry region
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- polyarch — (of a woody tissue) having multiple points of origin
- porkchop — a chop of pork.
- porkfish — a black and gold grunt, Anisotremus virginicus, of West Indian waters.
- porphyry — a very hard rock, anciently quarried in Egypt, having a dark, purplish-red groundmass containing small crystals of feldspar.
- porthole — a round, windowlike opening with a hinged, watertight glass cover in the side of a vessel for admitting air and light. Compare port4 (def 1).
- pot arch — an auxiliary furnace in which pots used in melting frit are preheated.
- potholer — an explorer of caves; spelunker.
- potiphar — the Egyptian officer whose wife tried to seduce Joseph. Gen. 39:1–20.
- potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
- pre-echo — something that has preceded and anticipated something else; precursor
- pro shop — a shop that is operated in connection with a golf or tennis club, resort, etc., and has sports equipment and often recreational clothing for sale or rent and is usually supervised by a resident professional coach or instructor.
- prochoos — an elongated form of the oinochoe.
- 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.
- prohibit — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- 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.
- prophecy — the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.
- prophesy — to foretell or predict.
- prophets — a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
- prophyll — one of two first leaves to appear on a lateral shoot, usually smaller than the leaves that follow
- proudhon — Pierre Joseph [pyer zhaw-zef] /pyɛr ʒɔˈzɛf/ (Show IPA), 1809–65, French socialist and writer.
- proudish — rather proud