8-letter words containing p, h
- euphonic — Characterized by euphony; harmonious.
- euphoria — A feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness.
- euphoric — Characterized by or feeling intense excitement and happiness.
- euphotic — Describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.
- euphrasy — eyebright
- euphuism — An artificial, highly elaborate way of writing or speaking.
- euphuist — One who affects excessive refinement and elegance of language; applied especially to a class of writers, in the age of w Elizabeth I, whose productions are marked by affected conceits and high-flown diction.
- euphuize — to write or speak in an affected style
- eutrophy — (medicine) healthy nutrition.
- exophagy — the practice of cannibalism outside of the tribe or family
- exophora — Reference in a text or utterance to something external to it, which is only fully intelligible in terms of information about the extralinguistic situation.
- eyepatch — A patch worn to protect an injured eye.
- fen-phen — a drug that is a combination of fenfluramine and phentermine, formerly used in treating obesity but withdrawn from the market because of its potential to cause valvular heart disease.
- fetch up — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
- fireship — A ship loaded with burning material and explosives and set adrift to ignite and blow up an enemy’s ships.
- fishpole — A fishing pole.
- fishpond — a small pond containing fish, often one in which edible fish are raised for commercial purposes, as for stocking lakes and streams or wholesaling.
- flagship — a ship carrying the flag officer or the commander of a fleet, squadron, or the like, and displaying the officer's flag.
- fleshpot — fleshpots. places offering luxurious and unrestrained pleasure or amusement: the fleshpots of Las Vegas. luxurious and unrestrained living.
- flypitch — an area for unlicensed stalls at markets
- footpath — a path for people going on foot.
- foreship — the prow or forepart of a ship
- frumpish — a person who is dowdy, drab, and unattractive.
- furphies — Plural form of furphy.
- galumphs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of galumph.
- gazpacho — a soup made of chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, garlic, oil, and vinegar, and served cold.
- geoglyph — A large-scale drawing made on the ground by scratching or arranging lines of stones etc.
- geophagy — the practice of eating earthy matter, especially clay or chalk, as in famine-stricken areas.
- geophone — a device that is placed on or in the ground and used to detect seismic waves.
- geophyte — a plant propagated by means of underground buds.
- giftshop — a shop that sells items that are suitable for giving as presents
- glumpish — glum
- glyphics — Plural form of glyphic.
- god help — You use God help you to warn someone that something unpleasant will happen to them if they do a particular thing.
- grapheme — a minimal unit of a writing system.
- graphene — A fullerene consisting of bonded carbon atoms in sheet form one atom thick.
- graphics — a product of the graphic arts, as a drawing or print.
- graphing — Present participle of graph.
- graphite — a very common mineral, soft native carbon, occurring in black to dark-gray foliated masses, with metallic luster and greasy feel: used for pencil leads, as a lubricant, and for making crucibles and other refractories; plumbago; black lead.
- graphium — a writing stylus
- grogshop — a saloon or barroom, especially a cheap one.
- grumphie — a familiar name for a pig.
- grumpish — Surly; sullen; gruff; grumpy.
- gryphons — Plural form of gryphon.
- gumphion — a funeral banner
- gunships — Plural form of gunship.
- guruship — The status of a guru.
- ha'penny — halfpenny.
- haiphong — a seaport in N Vietnam, near the Gulf of Tonkin.
- hairclip — A clip to hold back the hair.