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8-letter words containing s, h, e, p

  • peshitta — the principal Syriac version of the Bible.
  • pesthole — a place infested with or especially liable to epidemic disease.
  • pet shop — a shop selling animals intended as pets
  • phaedrus — flourished a.d. c40, Roman writer of fables.
  • phaestus — Phaistos.
  • pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
  • phase in — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
  • phase-in — an act or instance of phasing in; gradual introduction or implementation.
  • phaseout — an act or instance of phasing out; planned discontinuation or expiration.
  • pheasant — any of numerous large, usually long-tailed, Old World gallinaceous birds of the family Phasianidae, widely introduced.
  • pheidias — Phidias
  • pheresis — apheresis, especially plasmapheresis.
  • phonemes — any of a small set of units, usually about 20 to 60 in number, and different for each language, considered to be the basic distinctive units of speech sound by which morphemes, words, and sentences are represented. They are arrived at for any given language by determining which differences in sound function to indicate a difference in meaning, so that in English the difference in sound and meaning between pit and bit is taken to indicate the existence of different labial phonemes, while the difference in sound between the unaspirated p of spun and the aspirated p of pun, since it is never the only distinguishing feature between two different words, is not taken as ground for setting up two different p phonemes in English. Compare distinctive feature (def 1).
  • phoniest — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
  • phosgene — a poisonous, colorless, very volatile liquid or suffocating gas, COCl 2 , a chemical-warfare compound: used chiefly in organic synthesis.
  • photoset — photocompose.
  • phrenism — one of the three vital forces, which are non-physical life forces. Phrenism is the thought force, as opposed to neurism, the nerve force, and bathmism, the growth force.
  • phylesis — evolutionary events that modify an organism or group of organisms without leading to the formation of a new species
  • physeter — a member of the Physeter genus of creatures that includes the sperm whale
  • physique — physical or bodily structure, appearance, or development: the physique of an athlete.
  • pie dish — a shallow dish that you cook pies in
  • piershed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
  • pinchers — a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).
  • pinscher — one of a group of related dogs including the Doberman pinscher, miniature pinscher, and affenpinscher.
  • pipefish — any elongated, marine and sometimes freshwater fish species of the family Syngnathidae, having a tubular snout and covered with bony plates.
  • pishogue — sorcery; witchcraft; black magic.
  • pisshead — a drunkard
  • pistache — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
  • pithless — (of citrus fruit or peel) without any pith
  • pixieish — a fairy or sprite, especially a mischievous one.
  • poetship — the state or function of being poet
  • pokerish — resembling a poker in stiffness
  • polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
  • polisher — to make smooth and glossy, especially by rubbing or friction: to polish a brass doorknob.
  • popeship — the office of a pope
  • postheat — to heat (a metal piece, as a weld) after working, so as to relieve stresses.
  • posthole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
  • postiche — superadded, especially inappropriately, as a sculptural or architectural ornament.
  • pothouse — (formerly) a small tavern or pub
  • potsherd — a broken pottery fragment, especially one of archaeological value.
  • precrash — of or pertaining to the period before a crash, esp of a motor vehicle; coming into effect or being deployed prior to a crash
  • preshape — to shape beforehand so as to be ready for use
  • preshave — a liquid preparation, usually containing alcohol, for applying to the face to dry the skin and beard before shaving with an electric razor.
  • prophase — Cell Biology. the first stage of mitosis or meiosis in eukaryotic cell division, during which the nuclear envelope breaks down and strands of chromatin form into chromosomes.
  • prophesy — to foretell or predict.
  • prophets — a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
  • psephism — (in ancient Athens) a proposition adopted by a majority vote in the public assembly
  • psephite — any coarse rock, as breccia or conglomerate.
  • pseudish — pretentious
  • pthreads — POSIX Threads
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