9-letter words containing p, h
- apprehend — If the police apprehend someone, they catch them and arrest them.
- aquaphobe — a person who is abnormally afraid of water
- archetype — An archetype is something that is considered to be a perfect or typical example of a particular kind of person or thing, because it has all their most important characteristics.
- archicarp — a female reproductive structure in ascomycetous fungi that consists of a cell or hypha and develops into the ascogonium
- arcograph — an instrument used for drawing arcs without using a central point
- arhatship — the state of having achieved enlightenment, which is the ultimate goal of Theravada Buddhists
- arthropod — any invertebrate of the phylum Arthropoda, having jointed limbs, a segmented body, and an exoskeleton made of chitin. The group includes the crustaceans, insects, arachnids, and centipedes
- asphalted — Simple past tense and past participle of asphalt.
- asphalter — a person who spreads a layer of asphalt
- asphaltic — Resembling, containing, or relating to asphalt; bituminous.
- asphaltum — a substance used to protect surface areas of metal that do not require to be etched
- asphodels — Plural form of asphodel.
- asphyxial — the extreme condition caused by lack of oxygen and excess of carbon dioxide in the blood, produced by interference with respiration or insufficient oxygen in the air; suffocation.
- at a push — with difficulty; only just
- atahualpa — ?1500–33, the last Inca emperor of Peru (1525–33), who was put to death by the Spanish under Pizarro
- atmophile — (of a chemical element in the earth) having an affinity for the atmosphere, as neon or helium.
- atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
- atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- audiphone — a type of hearing aid consisting of a diaphragm that, when placed against the upper teeth, conveys sound vibrations to the inner ear
- aulophyte — a free-living plant growing on or in another plant.
- autograph — An autograph is the signature of someone famous which is specially written for a fan to keep.
- autophagy — the consumption of one's own tissue by biting oneself
- autophoby — the reluctance to refer to oneself or be egotistical
- autophone — (archaic) idiophone.
- autophony — a diagnosis made by listening to vibration of one's own voice on the patient's chest
- autophyte — an autotrophic plant, such as any green plant
- autotroph — any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists.
- auxotroph — a mutant strain of microorganism having nutritional requirements additional to those of the normal organism
- bakeshops — Plural form of bakeshop.
- bandshape — (physics) The shape (distribution of strengths with frequency) of a band of electromagnetic radiation.
- bang path — 1. (communications) An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address naming a sequence of hosts through which a message must pass to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee (a "source route"). So called because each hop is signified by a bang sign (exclamation mark). Thus, for example, the path ...!bigsite!foovax!barbox!me directs people to route their mail to computer bigsite (presumably a well-known location accessible to everybody) and from there through the computer foovax to the account of user me on barbox. Before autorouting mailers became commonplace, people often published compound bang addresses using the convention (see glob) to give paths from *several* big computers, in the hope that one's correspondent might be able to get mail to one of them reliably. e.g. ...!{seismo, ut-sally, ihnp4}!rice!beta!gamma!me Bang paths of 8 to 10 hops were not uncommon in 1981. Late-night dial-up UUCP links would cause week-long transmission times. Bang paths were often selected by both transmission time and reliability, as messages would often get lost. 2. (operating system) A shebang.
- bar graph — A bar graph is the same as a bar chart.
- barhopped — Simple past tense and past participle of barhop.
- barograph — a self-recording aneroid barometer
- barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- base path — the prescribed course for a base runner on the field extending in designated areas between the bases.
- basophile — Biology. a basophilic cell, tissue, organism, or substance.
- basophils — Plural form of basophil.
- bath chap — the lower part of the cheek of a pig, cooked and eaten, usually cold
- beach pea — either of two plants of the legume family, Lathyrus japonicus, of seashores of the North Temperate Zone, or L. littoralis, of the temperate western coast of North America, both having oblong leaves and clusters of pealike flowers.
- bell push — a button that is pressed to operate an electric bell
- bepatched — mended with or covered in patches
- bethphage — a place in ancient Israel, at the foot of the Mount of Olives: starting point of Jesus' ride into Jerusalem. Matt. 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29.
- bhagalpur — a city in India, in Bihar: agriculture, textiles, university (1960). Pop: 340 349 (2001)
- bhaktapur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
- bike path — A bike path is a special path on which people can travel by bicycle separately from motor vehicles.
- biography — A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.
- biophilia — an innate love for the natural world, supposed to be felt universally by humankind
- biosphere — The biosphere is the part of the earth's surface and atmosphere where there are living things.
- bishopdom — the jurisdiction of a bishop