8-letter words containing p, h
- po chu-i — a.d. 772–846, Chinese poet.
- poaching — the illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game without the landowner's permission.
- pochette — kit2 .
- pochismo — an English word or expression borrowed into Spanish; a Spanish word showing U.S. influence.
- poechore — a dry region
- poetship — the state or function of being poet
- pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
- polglish — informal Polish containing a high proportion of words of English origin
- polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
- 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
- polygoth — (language) A distributed language integrating classes with a parallel block structure, including multiprocedures and fragments.
- polymath — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- polyphon — a large clockwork or hand-operated music box
- ponchoed — wearing a poncho
- pooh bah — a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
- pooh-bah — a person who holds several positions, especially ones that give him or her bureaucratic importance.
- 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.
- prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
- pre-echo — something that has preceded and anticipated something else; precursor
- preacher — a person whose occupation or function it is to preach the gospel.
- prebirth — the period, usually six months, preceding a child's birth.
- precheck — to check in advance
- prechill — coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
- precrash — of or pertaining to the period before a crash, esp of a motor vehicle; coming into effect or being deployed prior to a crash
- predeath — occurring before or in the lead-up to death; of or pertaining to the period immediately prior to death