6-letter words containing r, h, p
- pahari — one of several hill peoples inhabiting the area in India SW of the Ganges River.
- paraph — a flourish made after a signature, as in a document, originally as a precaution against forgery.
- pardah — the seclusion of women from the sight of men or strangers, practiced by some Muslims and Hindus.
- pariah — an outcast.
- parish — an ecclesiastical district having its own church and member of the clergy.
- perche — a former division of N France.
- perish — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- pforth — (language) A portable (hence the "p") ANS-standard Forth implemented in ANSI C. Phil Burk initially began developing pForth in 1994 to support ASIC development at 3DO.
- pharma — a pharmaceutical company.
- pharos — a small peninsula in N Egypt, near Alexandria: site of ancient lighthouse built by Ptolemy.
- phasor — a vector that represents a sinusoidally varying quantity, as a current or voltage, by means of a line rotating about a point in a plane, the magnitude of the quantity being proportional to the length of the line and the phase of the quantity being equal to the angle between the line and a reference line.
- phater — Slang. great; wonderful; terrific.
- phedre — a tragedy (1677) by Racine.
- pherae — (in ancient geography) a town in SE Thessaly: the home of Admetus and Alcestis.
- phoner — a person making a telephone call
- phrase — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- phrasy — characterized by the use of many phrases
- phreak — phone phreak.
- phryne — real name Muesarete. 4th century bc, Greek courtesan; lover of Praxiteles and model for Apelles' painting Aphrodite Rising from the Waves
- phwoar — an admiring sound, roughly same as 'cor'; used to denote sexual attraction to another person
- phylar — of or relating to a major taxonomic division of living organisms that contain one or more classes
- pisher — a young boy or person who still has little experience
- pother — commotion; uproar.
- preach — to proclaim or make known by sermon (the gospel, good tidings, etc.).
- prehab — any programme of training designed to prevent sports injury
- prutah — a former aluminum coin of Israel, the thousandth part of a pound.
- purdah — the seclusion of women from the sight of men or strangers, practiced by some Muslims and Hindus.
- pusher — a person or thing that pushes.
- pyrrha — the wife of Deucalion, saved with him from the flood loosed upon mankind by Zeus
- pyrrho — c365–c275 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- raphae — Anatomy. a seamlike union between two parts or halves of an organ or the like.
- raphia — raffia.
- rechip — to put a new chip into (a stolen mobile phone) so it can be reused
- reship — to ship again.
- rupiah — an aluminum coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Indonesia, equal to 100 sen. Abbreviation: Rp.
- scarph — to assemble with a scarf joint.
- seraph — one of the celestial beings hovering above God's throne in Isaiah's vision. Isa. 6.
- shairp — John Campbell ("Principal Shairp") 1819–85, English critic, poet, and educator.
- shaper — a person or thing that shapes.
- sharpe — William Forsyth [fawr-sahyth] /ˈfɔr saɪθ/ (Show IPA), born 1934, U.S. economist: Nobel prize 1990.
- sharps — something sharp.
- sharpy — sharpie.
- sherpa — a member of a people of Tibetan stock living in the Nepalese Himalayas, who often serve as porters on mountain-climbing expeditions.
- shrimp — any of several small, long-tailed, chiefly marine crustaceans of the decapod suborder Natania, certain species of which are used as food.
- sophar — Zophar.
- sopher — scribe1 (def 3).
- sparth — a type of battle-axe
- sphere — Geometry. a solid geometric figure generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter; a round body whose surface is at all points equidistant from the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 + z 2 = r 2 . the surface of such a figure; a spherical surface.
- sphery — having the form of a sphere; spherelike.
- sypher — to join (boards having beveled edges) so as to make a flush surface.