8-letter words containing p, h
- odograph — a recording odometer.
- old chap — (used in informal direct address to a man of any age).
- oliphant — Margaret Wilson, 1828–97, Scottish novelist.
- omophagy — The eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- omphalic — Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.
- omphalo- — navel, umbilicus
- omphalos — the navel; umbilicus.
- oophoro- — ovary or ovaries
- oophoron — an ovary
- oosphere — an unfertilized egg within an oogonium.
- openhole — Openhole describes an uncased (=having no casing or liner) part of a well.
- opheltes — the son of King Lycurgus of Nemea who was killed in infancy by a serpent and in whose memory the Nemean games were held.
- ophidian — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Ophidia (Serpentes), comprising the snakes.
- ophidiid — any fish of the family Ophidiidae, comprising the cusk-eels.
- ophidism — Poisoning by snake venom.
- opsimath — (rare) A person who learns late in life.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed., 2004.
- orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
- orthoepy — the study of correct pronunciation.
- orthopod — an orthopedist.
- outpitch — to exceed in pitching
- outpunch — to punch better than
- overheap — to supply too much
- overhope — excessive hope
- overhype — to promote excessively
- pabouche — a soft shoe
- pachalic — pashalik.
- pachinko — a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical machine in which slots struck by the player's ball release other balls that in turn are exchanged for noncash prizes.
- pachmann — Vladimir de [vlad-uh-meer duh;; Russian vluh-dyee-myir de] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər də;; Russian vlʌˈdyi myɪr dɛ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1933, Russian pianist.
- pachouli — a plant, Pogostemon cablin, of tropical Asia, that yields a fragrant oil (patchouli oil) used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- pad thai — a Thai dish of stir-fried rice noodles, fish sauce and other seasonings, and usually tofu, shrimp, bean sprouts, and peanuts.
- padishah — (often initial capital letter) great king; emperor (a title applied especially formerly to the shah of Iran, the sultan of Turkey, and to the British sovereign as emperor in India).
- pagehood — the office of, or state of being, a page
- pahoehoe — basaltic lava having a smooth or billowy surface.
- pak-choi — bok choy.
- pamphlet — a complete publication of generally less than 80 pages stitched or stapled together and usually having a paper cover.
- pamphrey — a cabbage
- pan head — a tripod head permitting vertical or horizontal rotation of a camera to any position.
- panchaia — an area in the northern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed telescopically from the earth.
- pancheon — a wide, shallow bowl, originally used for making bread or separating cream
- panhuman — of, relating to, or affecting all humanity.
- pansophy — universal wisdom or knowledge.
- pantheon — a national monument in Paris, France, used as a sepulcher for eminent French persons, begun in 1764 by Soufflot as the church of Ste. Geneviève and secularized in 1885.
- panthera — a genus of chiefly large cats that includes the snow leopard, tiger, leopard, jaguar, and lion, most having the ability to roar.
- papisher — a Roman Catholic
- parachor — a scientific quantity defined by a formula involving surface tension, mass, and density
- parashah — a portion of the Torah chanted or read each week in the synagogue on the Sabbath.
- parching — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- parhelic — of or like a parhelion or parhelia
- parishad — (in India) an assembly
- parishen — a parishioner