8-letter words containing p, h, o
- pop shop — pawnshop.
- pop-shop — pawnshop.
- popehood — the office of the Pope
- popeship — the office of a pope
- 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).
- post hoc — after this; afterward.
- postheat — to heat (a metal piece, as a weld) after working, so as to relieve stresses.
- posthole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
- postiche — superadded, especially inappropriately, as a sculptural or architectural ornament.
- postshow — of or relating to the period after a show, occurring after a show
- pot arch — an auxiliary furnace in which pots used in melting frit are preheated.
- pot shot — a shot fired at game merely for food, with little regard to skill or the rules of sport.
- potholed — A potholed road has a lot of potholes in it.
- potholer — an explorer of caves; spelunker.
- pothooks — a hook for suspending a pot or kettle over an open fire.
- pothouse — (formerly) a small tavern or pub
- potiphar — the Egyptian officer whose wife tried to seduce Joseph. Gen. 39:1–20.
- potlatch — (among American Indians of the northern Pacific coast, especially the Kwakiutl) a ceremonial festival at which gifts are bestowed on the guests and property is destroyed by its owner in a show of wealth that the guests later attempt to surpass.
- potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
- pouchful — the amount (of something) a pouch will hold
- pouching — a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, especially one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
- powhatan — a member of any of the Indian tribes belonging to the Powhatan Confederacy.
- 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
- 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.
- psychoid — the innate impetus to perform actions
- psychol. — psychological
- psychro- — cold
- puck hog — a player who is reluctant to pass the puck to other members of his or her team
- pugachov — Yemelyan Ivanovich. 1726–75, Russian Cossack rebel, leader of a major revolt against the government of Catherine II: executed
- pumphood — a cover for the upper wheel of a chain pump
- puncheon — a heavy slab of timber, roughly dressed, for use as a floorboard.
- push off — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- push-off — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
- pushdown — a list in which the last item added is at the top