9-letter words containing p, h
- bishopess — a bishop's wife
- bishopric — A bishopric is the area for which a bishop is responsible, or the rank or office of being a bishop.
- bisphenol — a synthetic organic compound used to make plastics and resins
- blaspheme — If someone blasphemes, they say rude or disrespectful things about God or religion, or they use God's name as a swear word.
- blasphemy — You can describe something that shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemy.
- blepharo- — eyelid, eyelids
- blockship — a ship used to block a river or channel
- blue chip — Blue chip stocks and shares are an investment which are considered fairly safe to invest in while also being profitable.
- blue-chip — of, relating to, or constituting a blue chip.
- body shop — a place where the bodywork of motor vehicles is built or repaired
- bolograph — a record made by a bolometer
- bryophyte — any plant of the phyla Bryophyta (mosses), Hepatophyta (liverworts), or Anthocerophyta (hornworts), having stems and leaves but lacking true vascular tissue and roots and reproducing by spores
- bunny hop — a jump executed with the feet held tightly together and the knees bent
- cachepots — Plural form of cachepot.
- cacophony — You can describe a loud, unpleasant mixture of sounds as a cacophony.
- cadetship — a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
- cake shop — a shop that sells cakes
- caliphate — the office, jurisdiction, or reign of a caliph
- callipash — the part of a turtle next to the upper shield, consisting of a greenish gelatinous substance, considered a delicacy.
- campshirt — a loose, short-sleeved shirt or blouse with an open collar
- canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
- canonship — the position or office of canon; canonry.
- cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
- capocchia — a fool
- capuchins — Plural form of capuchin.
- car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- cardpunch — a device, no longer widely used, controlled by a computer, for transferring information from the central processing unit onto punched cards
- cardsharp — a professional card player who cheats
- cash crop — A cash crop is a crop that is grown in order to be sold.
- cash plan — A cash plan is money paid towards the insured’s optical or dental costs, and also admission to a hospital.
- cashed up — having plenty of money
- cashpoint — A cashpoint is the same as a cash dispenser.
- cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
- cataphyll — a simplified form of plant leaf, such as a scale leaf or cotyledon
- catch pit — a pit in a drainage system in which matter that might otherwise block a sewer is collected so that it may periodically be removed
- catch-ups — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- catchpole — (in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors
- catchpoll — (formerly) a petty officer of justice, especially one arresting persons for debt.
- cathepsin — a proteolytic enzyme responsible for the autolysis of cells after death
- catheptic — of or relating to enzymes that catalyze autolysis in death or pathological conditions
- cellphone — A cellphone is the same as a cellular phone.
- cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
- cephalate — (of living organisms) possessing a head or headlike feature
- cephalgia — (medicine) headache.
- cephalins — Plural form of cephalin.
- cephaloid — Shaped like the head or the brain.
- cephalous — having a head
- cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
- chaetopod — any annelid worm of the classes Oligochaeta or Polychaeta