9-letter words containing p, h
- ecphoneme — (obsolete) A symbol, !, comprising a vertical line and a dot below, signifying the end of a sentence that is an exclamation.
- ectomorph — a person of the ectomorphic type.
- ectophyte — a parasitic plant growing on an animal or another plant.
- eidograph — a type of pantograph that was invented by the Scottish mathematician William Wallace in 1821 and which was more accurate than other pantographs
- ekphrasis — (rhetoric) A clear, intense, self-contained argument or pictorial description of an object, especially of an artwork.
- el(alpha) — Aims to be a high-level language that knows about real hardware, for systems programming. "Essential Language el(alpha) - A Reduced Expression Set Language for Systems Programming", T. Watanabe et al, SIGPLAN Notices 26(1):85-98.
- eldership — Seniority; the state or condition of being older.
- elephants — Plural form of elephant.
- empathies — Plural form of empathy.
- empathise — (British) alternative spelling of empathize.
- empathize — Understand and share the feelings of another.
- emphasise — (British) alternative spelling of emphasize.
- emphasize — Give special importance or prominence to (something) in speaking or writing.
- emphatics — Plural form of emphatic.
- emphlysis — the outbreak of blisters on the body
- emphysema — A condition in which the air sacs of the lungs are damaged and enlarged, causing breathlessness.
- encephala — Plural form of encephalon.
- enciphers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encipher.
- endolymph — The fluid in the membranous labyrinth of the ear.
- endomorph — A person with a soft round body build and a high proportion of fat tissue.
- endophagy — cannibalism within the same group or tribe
- endophyte — A plant, especially a fungus, that lives inside another plant.
- endorphin — Any of a group of hormones secreted within the brain and nervous system and having a number of physiological functions. They are peptides that activate the body’s opiate receptors, causing an analgesic effect.
- ensphered — Simple past tense and past participle of ensphere.
- entophyte — endophyte
- eparchial — Of or pertaining to an eparchy.
- eparchies — Plural form of eparchy.
- epedaphic — of or relating to atmospheric conditions
- ephedrine — A crystalline alkaloid drug obtained from some ephedras. It causes constriction of the blood vessels and widening of the bronchial passages and is used to relieve asthma and hay fever.
- ephemeral — An ephemeral plant.
- ephemeric — Ephemeral.
- ephemerid — (zoology) Any member of the Ephemeridae.
- ephemeris — A table or data file giving the calculated positions of a celestial object at regular intervals throughout a period.
- ephemeron — An insect that lives only for a day or a few days.
- ephesians — a book of the New Testament (in full The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians), containing an exposition of the divine plan for the world and the consummation of this in Christ
- ephialtes — (obsolete) an incubus; a nightmare.
- ephippial — Saddle-shaped; occupying an ephippium.
- ephoralty — an ephor's office
- epigraphs — Plural form of epigraph.
- epigraphy — The study and interpretation of ancient inscriptions.
- epilithic — (of plants) growing on the surface of rock
- epiphanic — Having the character of a religious epiphany.
- epiphragm — A dry layer of mucus used by a snail or mollusk to seal itself inside its shell during hibernation.
- epiphyses — Plural form of epiphysis.
- epiphysis — The end part of a long bone, initially growing separately from the shaft.
- epiphytes — Plural form of epiphyte.
- epiphytic — Of or pertaining to an epiphyte.
- epirrhema — the address in Greek comedy
- epitaphed — Simple past tense and past participle of epitaph.
- epitapher — one who writes epitaphs