9-letter words containing r, h, a, p
- sharpbill — a passerine bird, Oxyruncus cristatus, of New World tropical forests, having greenish plumage and a pointed bill, related to the tyrant flycatchers.
- sharpener — A sharpener is a tool or machine used for sharpening pencils or knives.
- sharpness — having a thin cutting edge or a fine point; well-adapted for cutting or piercing: a sharp knife.
- shear pin — an easily replaceable pin inserted in a machine at a critical point and designed to shear and stop the machine if the load becomes too great
- 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.
- skiagraph — a radiograph.
- sonograph — an instrument that produces a graphic representation of sound.
- spearfish — fish: type of marlin
- spearhead — the sharp-pointed head that forms the piercing end of a spear.
- sphaerite — an aluminium phosphate
- spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- spreathed — sore; chapped
- stepchair — a set of steps folding into a chair.
- straphang — to travel as a straphanger.
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- superheat — the state of being superheated.
- telegraph — an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
- tephigram — a chart depicting variations in atmospheric conditions relative to altitude
- the strap — a beating with a strap as a punishment
- therapist — a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.
- therapsid — any of various groups of mammallike reptiles of the extinct order Therapsida, inhabiting all continents from mid-Permian to late Triassic times, some of which were probably warm-blooded and directly ancestral to mammals.
- thraiping — a thrashing
- threepeat — to win a third consecutive victory.
- tomograph — a machine for making an x-ray of a selected plane of the body.
- tophamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.
- topograph — a type of x-ray photograph of land surfaces
- tragelaph — a mythical animal that is a cross between a goat and a stag
- transship — to transfer from one ship, truck, freight car, or other conveyance to another.
- trap shot — half volley.
- traplight — a lighting device used to trap insects, especially moths.
- triphasic — having or existing in three phases.
- triumphal — of, pertaining to, celebrating, or commemorating a triumph or victory: a triumphal banquet; a triumphal ode.
- trophaeum — tropaeum.
- typograph — a machine for creating indentations of characters upon a sheet of metal from which prints can be made
- ultraposh — extremely posh
- up-anchor — to weigh anchor.
- upaithric — without a roof
- updraught — an upward movement of air or other gas
- ursprache — a hypothetically reconstructed parent language, as Proto-Germanic, the ancestor of the Germanic languages.
- vampirish — a preternatural being, commonly believed to be a reanimated corpse, that is said to suck the blood of sleeping persons at night.
- vibraharp — a musical percussion instrument that resembles a marimba and is played with mallets, but that has metal instead of wooden bars and has a set of electrically powered resonators for sustaining the tone or creating a vibrato.
- war whoop — a yell uttered in making an attack: the war whoop of the American Indian.
- wear ship — to change the tack of a sailing vessel, esp a square-rigger, by coming about so that the wind passes astern
- whipcrack — The crack of a whip.
- wind harp — aeolian harp.
- xerograph — A photocopy produced by xerography.
- xerophagy — a Lenten fast observed especially during Holy Week, constituting the strictest fast in the Eastern Church.
- xylograph — An engraving in wood, especially one used for printing.