9-letter words containing p, h
- peep show — a display of objects or pictures viewed through a small opening that is usually fitted with a magnifying lens.
- peep-hole — a small hole or opening through which to peep or look, as in a door.
- peep-show — a display of objects or pictures viewed through a small opening that is usually fitted with a magnifying lens.
- pemphigus — any of several diseases, often fatal, characterized by blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- penholder — a holder in which a penpoint is placed.
- penpusher — pencil pusher.
- pentalpha — pentagram.
- pentarchy — a government by five persons.
- pentathla — pentathlons
- penthouse — an apartment or dwelling on the roof of a building, usually set back from the outer walls.
- pepperish — a pungent condiment obtained from various plants of the genus Piper, especially from the dried berries, used whole or ground, of the tropical climbing shrub P. nigrum.
- perchance — Literary. perhaps; maybe; possibly.
- percheron — one of a French breed of draft horses, having a gray or black coat.
- perihelia — the point in the orbit of a planet or comet at which it is nearest to the sun.
- perilymph — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
- perimorph — a crystal of one mineral enclosing that of another mineral. Compare endomorph (def 1).
- periphery — the external boundary of any surface or area.
- perishing — causing destruction, ruin, extreme discomfort, or death: lost in the perishing cold.
- perthitic — relating to, consisting of, or having a similarity to perthite
- peshmerga — a member of the armed forces in the autonomous Kurdish-controlled region of NE Iraq
- pesthouse — a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.
- petahertz — one quadrillion (10 15) hertz. Abbreviation: PHz.
- petechiae — a minute, round, nonraised hemorrhage in the skin or in a mucous or serous membrane.
- petechial — pertaining to, resembling, or characterized by petechiae.
- petersham — a heavy woolen cloth for men's overcoats and other bulky outerwear.
- pethidine — a white crystalline water-soluble drug used as an analgesic. Formula: C15H21NO2.HCl
- petrichor — a distinctive scent, usually described as earthy, pleasant, or sweet, produced by rainfall on very dry ground.
- pewholder — a person who leases or is the owner of a pew or an area of seats in a church
- pforzheim — a city in W Baden-Württemberg, in SW Germany.
- phacolite — a colorless variety of chabazite.
- phacolith — a layer of igneous rock, which has the structure of a lens, and which occurs in an invasive position in sedimentary rock
- phaeacian — an island nation on the shores of which Odysseus was shipwrecked and discovered by Nausicaä.
- phagedena — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- phagocyte — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- phagosome — a vacuole within a phagocyte that contains bacteria or other ingested particles and that becomes fused with a lysosome.
- phalanger — any of numerous arboreal marsupials of the family Phalangeridae, of Australia, having foxlike ears and a long, bushy tail.
- phalanges — a plural of phalanx.
- phalangid — an arachnid that belongs to the family Phalangidae
- phalarope — any of three species of small, aquatic birds of the family Phalaropodidae, resembling sandpipers but having lobate toes.
- phallical — of, relating to, or resembling a phallus.
- phalluses — an image of the male reproductive organ, especially that carried in procession in ancient festivals of Dionysus, or Bacchus, symbolizing the generative power in nature.
- phanerite — any igneous rock whose grains are visible to the naked eye.
- phanotron — a hot-cathode gas diode.
- phansigar — a person from East India who operates as a thief and a murderer
- phantasma — phantasm (defs 1, 2).
- pharaonic — (sometimes lowercase) of or like a Pharaoh: living in Pharaonic splendor.
- pharisaic — of or relating to the Pharisees.
- pharisees — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
- pharmaco- — indicating drugs
- pharsalia — a district in ancient Greece whose chief city was Pharsalus.