9-letter words containing p, h
- isopleths — Plural form of isopleth.
- ispaghula — dietary fibre derived from the seed husks of Plantago orata and used as a thickener or stabilizer in the food industry
- john paul — Anson [an-suh n] /ˈæn sən/ (Show IPA), 1798–1858, president of the Republic of Texas.
- joseph ii — 1741–90, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1765–90 (son of Francis I; brother of Leopold II and Marie Antoinette).
- josephine — Empress (Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
- josephson — Brian David, born 1940, British physicist: Nobel Prize 1973.
- judgeship — a public officer authorized to hear and decide cases in a court of law; a magistrate charged with the administration of justice.
- jump head — the headline printed over the continued portion of a story in a newspaper, magazine, etc., usually condensed from the main headline.
- jump ship — to desert, esp to leave a ship in which one is legally bound to serve
- jump shot — a shot with one or both hands in which a player leaps into the air and shoots the ball at the basket at the moment of reaching the highest point of the leap.
- junk heap — an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter
- junk shop — a shop selling miscellaneous secondhand goods
- kampuchea — People's Republic of, a former official name of Cambodia.
- kapa haka — the traditional Māori performing arts, often performed competitively
- karpathos — an island off the SE coast of Greece, part of the Dodecanese Islands, in the Aegean Sea. 110 sq. mi. (280 sq. km).
- key punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- keyphrase — (cryptography) A phrase used in encryption in the style of a keyword.
- kharagpur — city in SW West Bengal, India: pop. 265,000
- kingships — Plural form of kingship.
- kintpuash — (Kintpuash) 1837?–73, Modoc leader.
- klephtism — the activities or life of klephts
- knaveship — a small proportion of milled grain that was due to the person who did the milling
- kniphofia — Any of several plants, of the genus Kniphofia, having bright, upright flowers.
- kuchipudi — a form of S Indian classical dancing
- kugelhopf — a sweetened bread, flavored with raisins and almonds, baked in a ring-shaped mold, and usually dusted with powdered sugar before serving.
- kymograph — an instrument for measuring and graphically recording variations in fluid pressure, as those of the human pulse.
- lagomorph — any member of the order Lagomorpha, comprising the hares, rabbits, and pikas, resembling the rodents but having two pairs of upper incisors.
- lairdship — the condition of being a laird, or the rank of laird
- lalopathy — any defect of speech.
- lamb chop — cutlets of young sheep's meat
- lamp-hole — a hole in the ground for lowering a lamp down into a sewer
- lampbrush — (rare) A form of brush, containing loops of material, used for dusting light fittings.
- lamplight — the light thrown by a lamp.
- lampshade — a shade, usually translucent or opaque, for shielding the glare of a light source in a lamp or for directing the light to a particular area.
- lampshell — Alternative form of lamp shell.
- lap child — a child who has not yet begun or has just begun to walk.
- lap-chart — a log of every lap covered by each car in a race, showing the exact position throughout
- launchpad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- leptophos — a solid compound, C 13 H 10 BrCl 2 O 2 PS, used as a nonsystemic insecticide for food crops and lawn grass.
- lexigraph — A lexigram or ideograph, a graphical depiction of a single word.
- lexiphage — (graphics) /lek'si-fayj"/ A notorious word chomper, implemented and named by John Doty in late 1972 on and HP calculator and later on ITS. The lexiphage program would draw on a selected victim's bitmapped terminal the words "THE BAG" in ornate letters, followed a pair of jaws biting pieces of it off.
- lexiphane — One who uses words pretentiously.
- lexophile — A lover of words, especially in word games, puzzles, anagrams, palindromes, etc.
- light pen — a handheld light-sensitive device used for pointing at characters or objects on a CRT in order to make or modify drawings or to indicate functions to be performed.
- lightship — a ship anchored in a specific location and displaying or flashing a very bright light for the guidance of ships, as in avoiding dangerous areas. Abbreviation: LS.
- linchpins — Plural form of linchpin.
- lindy hop — Also called lindy hop, Lindy Hop. an energetic jitterbug dance.
- lip-synch — the technical process by which this is done.
- lithopone — a white pigment consisting of zinc sulfide, barium sulfate, and some zinc oxide, used as a pigment and filler in the manufacture of paints, inks, leather, paper, linoleum, and face powders.
- logograph — a conventional, abbreviated symbol for a frequently recurring word or phrase, as the symbol & for the word and. Also called logograph [law-guh-graf, -grahf, log-uh-] /ˈlɔ gəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf, ˈlɒg ə-/ (Show IPA).