8-letter words containing p, h
- pie dish — a shallow dish that you cook pies in
- pie-hole — a person's mouth
- pierhead — the outermost end of a pier or wharf.
- piershed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- pihoihoi — a New Zealand pipit, Anthus novaeseelandiae
- pilchard — a small, southern European, marine fish, Sardina pilchardus, related to the herring but smaller and rounder.
- pillhead — a person who habitually takes pills, especially amphetamines or barbiturates.
- pin-hole — a small hole made by or as by a pin.
- pinchbug — a stag beetle
- pincheck — a very small check woven into fabric, much used in the manufacture of men's and women's suits.
- pinchers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
- pinchgut — someone who does not give other people enough food
- pinochet — Augusto (auˈɣusto). 1915-2006, Chilean general and statesman; president of Chile (1974–90) following his overthrow of Allende (1973): charged (2001) with murder and kidnapping but found unfit to stand trial
- pinochle — a popular card game played by two, three, or four persons, with a 48-card deck.
- pinscher — one of a group of related dogs including the Doberman pinscher, miniature pinscher, and affenpinscher.
- pinwheel — a child's toy consisting of a wheel or leaflike curls of paper or plastic loosely attached by a pin to a stick, designed to revolve when blown by or as by the wind.
- pipefish — any elongated, marine and sometimes freshwater fish species of the family Syngnathidae, having a tubular snout and covered with bony plates.
- piroshki — small turnovers or dumplings with a filling, as of meat or fruit.
- pirozhki — small triangular pastries filled with meat, vegetables, etc
- pishogue — sorcery; witchcraft; black magic.
- pisolith — a pea-size calcareous concretion, larger than an oolith, aggregates of which constitute a pisolite.
- pisshead — a drunkard
- pistache — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
- pitahaya — any of several cacti of the genus Lemaireocereus and related genera, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, bearing edible fruit.
- pitch in — to erect or set up (a tent, camp, or the like).
- pitch on — to erect or set up (a tent, camp, or the like).
- pitchily — in a pitchy manner
- pitching — any of various dark, tenacious, and viscous substances for caulking and paving, consisting of the residue of the distillation of coal tar or wood tar.
- pitchman — an itinerant vendor of small wares that are usually carried in a case with collapsible legs, allowing it to be set up or removed quickly.
- pitchout — Baseball. a ball purposely thrown by a pitcher too far outside of the plate for the batter to hit, especially in anticipation of an attempted steal by a base runner.
- pitchpot — a pot used by sailors for heating pitch.
- pith ray — medullary ray.
- pithball — a small ball of pith suspended on a thread inside an early type of electroscope that would indicate the presence and strength of electric charge in an object near or touching it
- pithless — (of citrus fruit or peel) without any pith
- pithlike — similar to pith
- pixieish — a fairy or sprite, especially a mischievous one.
- plainish — rather ordinary-looking
- planchet — a flat piece of metal for stamping as a coin; a coin blank.
- plashing — a gentle splash.
- play-doh — Play-Doh is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
- pleached — having interlaced stems or boughs
- pleather — a synthetic leather
- plethora — overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance.
- plighted — to pledge (one's troth) in engagement to marry.
- plug hat — plug (def 19).
- plughole — drainage hole in sink or bath
- plumpish — somewhat plump; tending to plumpness.
- plushily — in a plush manner
- plutarch — a.d. c46–c120, Greek biographer.
- plymouth — an island in the Leeward Islands, in the SE West Indies: a British crown colony. 39½ sq. mi. (102 sq. km). Capital: Plymouth.