9-letter words containing p, h
- pithiness — brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression; full of vigor, substance, or meaning; terse; forcible: a pithy observation.
- pixie hat — a hat, usually knitted, that comes to a point
- plansheer — plancer.
- platyfish — any of several small, yellow-gray freshwater fishes of the genus Xiphophorus, especially X. variatus, of Mexico: popular in home aquariums, in which the color varies widely.
- play hell — To play hell with something means to have a bad effect on it or cause great confusion. In British English, you can also say that one person or thing plays merry hell with another.
- play with — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- playdough — children's modelling clay
- playhouse — a theater.
- plaything — a thing to play with; toy.
- plekhanov — Georgi (or Georgy) Valentinovich [gyi-awr-gyee-vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh-vyich] /gyɪˈɔr gyi və lyɪnˈtyi nə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1857–1918, Russian philosopher and leader of the Mensheviks.
- plenished — to fill up; stock; furnish.
- plethoric — overfull; turgid; inflated: a plethoric, pompous speech.
- plightful — filled with distress
- plough on — If you plough on, you continue moving or trying to complete something, even though it takes a lot of effort to go on.
- plough up — If someone ploughs up an area of land, they plough it, usually in order to turn it into land used for growing crops.
- ploughboy — a boy who guides the animals drawing a plough
- ploughing — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- ploughman — A ploughman is a man whose job it is to plough the land, especially with a plough pulled by horses or oxen.
- plowright — Dame Joan. born 1929, British actress, married to Laurence Olivier (1961–89)
- plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
- pnom penh — Phnom Penh
- poachable — able to be poached
- podotheca — the horny integument covering unfeathered portions of the legs and toes of most birds.
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- polish up — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
- pollyfish — parrotfish.
- polyantha — a type of clustering flower
- polyanthi — hybrid garden primroses
- polyarchy — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polyether — a polymeric ether.
- polygraph — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polymathy — learning in many fields; encyclopedic knowledge.
- polymorph — Biology. an organism having more than one adult form, as the different castes in social ants.
- polyphagy — an insatiable appetite
- polyphase — having more than one phase.
- polyphone — a polyphonic letter or symbol.
- polyphony — Music. polyphonic composition; counterpoint.
- polyptych — a work of art composed of several connected panels.
- polythene — polyethylene.
- pompholyx — a type of eczema
- ponograph — an instrument for graphically recording pain or muscular fatigue.
- pooh-pooh — to express disdain or contempt for; dismiss lightly: He pooh-poohed all their superstitious fears.
- pool hall — poolroom (def 1).
- poorhouse — (formerly) an institution in which paupers were maintained at public expense.
- pooterish — characteristic of or resembling the fictional character Pooter, esp in being bourgeois, genteel, or self-important
- pop psych — psychological or pseudopsychological counseling, interpretations, concepts, terminology, etc., often simplistic or superficial, popularized by certain personalities, magazine articles, television shows, advice columns, or the like, that influence the general public.
- poppyhead — a finial or other ornament, often richly carved, as the top of the upright end of a bench or pew.
- porchetta — Italian boneless stuffed pork cut from a whole roast pig
- pork chop — cutlet of pig meat
- porphyria — a defect of blood pigment metabolism in which porphyrins are produced in excess, are present in the blood, and are found in the urine.