9-letter words containing p, r, o, h
- bishopric — A bishopric is the area for which a bishop is responsible, or the rank or office of being a bishop.
- blepharo- — eyelid, eyelids
- 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
- canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
- 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
- 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
- cash crop — A cash crop is a crop that is grown in order to be sold.
- cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
- cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
- chaperone — A chaperone is someone who accompanies another person somewhere in order to make sure that they do not come to any harm.
- chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chipboard — Chipboard is a hard material made out of very small pieces of wood which have been pressed together. It is often used for making doors and furniture.
- chipproof — resistant to chipping.
- chiropody — Chiropody is the professional treatment and care of people's feet.
- chiropter — an animal of the order Chiroptera; a bat
- choephori — a tragedy (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
- choppered — Simple past tense and past participle of chopper.
- coopworth — a New Zealand and Australian breed of sheep derived from the Romney Marsh
- copperish — resembling copper
- coprolith — a hard stony mass of dried faeces in the intestine that is caused by chronic constipation
- copyright — If someone has copyright on a piece of writing or music, it is illegal to reproduce or perform it without their permission.
- corn chip — a thin, crisp piece of snack food made from cornmeal.
- coryphene — either of two large marine percoid fishes, Coryphaena hippurus or C. equisetis, that resemble the cetacean dolphins and have an iridescent coloration
- cosphered — sharing the same sphere
- courtship — Courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting.
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- cristophe — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), ("Henri I"I) 1767–1820, Haitian revolutionary general, born in Grenada: king 1811–20.
- cryophile — (biology) An organism that thrives at low temperatures.
- cryophyte — an organism, esp an alga or moss, that grows on snow or ice
- cupholder — a competitor who has won or successfully defended a specific cup, trophy, championship, etc.; champion.
- cybershop — Purchase or shop for goods and services on a website.
- cymograph — an instrument for tracing the outline of an architectural moulding
- dimorphic — having two forms.
- donorship — a person who gives or donates.
- drop arch — a pointed arch having radii of length less than the span.
- drop shot — (in tennis, badminton, etc.) a ball or shuttlecock so softly hit that it falls to the playing surface just after clearing the net.
- drop-ship — to ship (goods) as a drop shipment: The books will be drop-shipped by the publisher to your home.
- dropcloth — A large piece of plastic or canvas put over something to protect it from construction debris or paint.
- droplight — an electric or gas lamp suspended from the ceiling or wall by a flexible cord or tube.
- dryomorph — any member of the extinct genus Dryopithecus.
- dynorphin — (biochemistry) Any of a class of opioid peptides that arise from the precursor protein prodynorphin.
- dysphoria — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- dysphoric — a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting.
- dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- earphones — (countable) Plural form of earphone.
- echograph — a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.