9-letter words containing r, h, a, p, o
- phalarope — any of three species of small, aquatic birds of the family Phalaropodidae, resembling sandpipers but having lobate toes.
- phanotron — a hot-cathode gas diode.
- pharaonic — (sometimes lowercase) of or like a Pharaoh: living in Pharaonic splendor.
- pharmaco- — indicating drugs
- pharyngo- — pharynx
- phenogram — a diagram depicting taxonomic relationships among organisms based on overall similarity of many characteristics without regard to evolutionary history or assumed significance of specific characters: usually generated by computer.
- phonatory — rapid, periodic opening and closing of the glottis through separation and apposition of the vocal cords that, accompanied by breath under lung pressure, constitutes a source of vocal sound.
- phonecard — calling card (def 3).
- phonogram — a unit symbol of a phonetic writing system, standing for a speech sound, syllable, or other sequence of speech sounds without reference to meaning.
- phony war — (in wartime) a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II
- photocard — A photocard is a card with a person's photograph on it, which they can use to prove who they are.
- photogram — a silhouette photograph made by placing an object directly on sensitized paper and exposing it to light.
- phytosaur — any armored, semiaquatic reptile of the extinct order Phytosauria, of the Mesozoic Era, resembling the crocodile but unrelated, having the nostrils high on the snout and with well-developed hind limbs suggestive of bipedal ancestors.
- plowshare — the cutting part of the moldboard of a plow; share.
- polemarch — (in ancient Greece) a civilian official, originally a supreme general
- polyarchy — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polygraph — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- ponograph — an instrument for graphically recording pain or muscular fatigue.
- porchetta — Italian boneless stuffed pork cut from a whole roast pig
- 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.
- postcrash — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a crash
- pothecary — apothecary.
- prognathy — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- promachos — a defender or champion
- prop wash — propeller wash.
- prophasic — relating to the first stage of nuclear division
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- prosphora — antidoron.
- prothorax — the anterior division of the thorax of an insect, bearing the first pair of legs.
- pyorrhoea — Pathology. a discharge of pus.
- pyothorax — empyema.
- pyrograph — an object ornamented by pyrography.
- ramamorph — any of a group of extinct Miocene apes of Europe, Asia, and Africa, characterized by large molars and small incisors and typified by the genera Ramapithecus and Sivapithecus.
- ramaphosa — (Matamela) Cyril. born 1952, South African statesman and trade unionist; secretary general of the ANC (1991–97); deputy president of South Africa from 2014
- rasophore — a monk authorized to wear the rason.
- rhamphoid — beaklike or beak-shaped
- rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
- rhapsodic — extravagantly enthusiastic; ecstatic.
- rhizocarp — a plant that fruits underground or whose root remains intact while the leaves die off annually
- rhopalism — the art, skill, or incidence of writing rhopalic verse
- road hump — speed bump that slows traffic
- rotograph — a photograph, esp of a manuscript or book, which is printed white on black
- semaphore — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- sharecrop — to cultivate (farmland) as a sharecropper
- shipboard — Archaic. the deck or side of a ship. the situation of being on a ship.
- shopboard — a shop counter or work bench
- shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
- sonograph — an instrument that produces a graphic representation of sound.
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- tomograph — a machine for making an x-ray of a selected plane of the body.