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8-letter words containing p, h, o, r

  • prowfish — a fish, Zaprora silenus, of the North Pacific.
  • prud'hon — Pierre Paul [pyer pawl] /pyɛr pɔl/ (Show IPA), (Pierre Prudon) 1758–1823, French painter.
  • psychro- — cold
  • pushover — Informal. anything done easily.
  • pyorrhea — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
  • pyrrhous — (of a person's complexion) ruddy or reddish
  • randolph — A(sa) Philip, 1889–1979, U.S. labor leader: president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1925–68.
  • reaphook — a sickle
  • replough — to plough again
  • repolish — a repolishing, the action of polishing again
  • reproach — to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure.
  • rhapsode — in ancient Greece, a person who recited rhapsodies, esp. one who recited epic poems as a profession
  • rhapsody — Music. an instrumental composition irregular in form and suggestive of improvisation.
  • rheopexy — the property exhibited by certain slow-gelling, thixotropic sols of gelling more rapidly when the containing vessel is shaken gently.
  • rheophil — (of organisms) liking flowing water
  • rhizopod — any of numerous protozoa of the widespread subphylum (or superclass) Rhizopoda, characterized by a pseudopod and comprising most members of the phylum Sarcodina, including the amebas and foraminifers.
  • rhizopus — any zygomycetous fungus of the genus Rhizopus, esp R. nigricans, a bread mould
  • rhopalic — (of poetry) in which each successive word has one more syllable than the word before
  • robohelp — (tool)   A Microsoft Windows Help authoring tool from Blue Sky Software. Used with Microsoft Word to create Help files for inclusion in a Windows application or for stand alone use.
  • rohypnol — Rohypnol is a powerful drug that makes a person semi-conscious.
  • rose hip — hip2 .
  • rough up — having a coarse or uneven surface, as from projections, irregularities, or breaks; not smooth: rough, red hands; a rough road.
  • rum shop — a tavern or shop selling liquor.
  • shipworm — any of various wormlike marine bivalve mollusks that burrow into the timbers of ship, wharves, etc.
  • sholapur — a city in S Maharashtra state, in SW India.
  • shopgirl — a salesgirl; female store clerk.
  • shopworn — worn or marred, as goods exposed and handled in a store.
  • shore up — a supporting post or beam with auxiliary members, especially one placed obliquely against the side of a building, a ship in drydock, or the like; prop; strut.
  • sopheric — relating to Jewish scribes
  • sopherim — scribe1 (def 3).
  • spheroid — a solid geometrical figure similar in shape to a sphere, as an ellipsoid.
  • strophic — Also, strophical. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.
  • sunporch — a room with large windows and often a glass roof, built around one of the main entrances to a building
  • superhot — extremely hot
  • the poor — poor, or needy, people collectively
  • the rope — a rope, noose, or halter used for hanging
  • theropod — any member of the suborder Theropoda, comprising carnivorous dinosaurs that had short forelimbs and walked or ran on their hind legs.
  • thropple — the windpipe or throat
  • throw up — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • trimorph — a substance existing in three structurally distinct forms; a trimorphous substance.
  • trip-hop — a type of British electronic dance music of the 1990s, influenced by drug culture
  • triphone — a group of three phonemes
  • trophesy — a condition caused by a disorder of the nerves relating to nutrition
  • trophied — adorned with trophies.
  • upgrowth — the process of growing up; development: the upgrowth of nuclear science.
  • upholder — to support or defend, as against opposition or criticism: He fought the duel to uphold his family's honor.
  • vamphorn — a megaphone in use during the 18th and early 19th centuries for public address in church services.
  • vaporish — of the nature of or resembling vapor: a vaporish chiffon dress.
  • whipcord — a cotton, woolen, or worsted fabric with a steep, diagonally ribbed surface.
  • whipworm — any of several parasitic nematodes of the genus Trichuris, having a long, slender, whiplike anterior end.
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