9-letter words containing ph
- eutrophic — (of a lake or other body of water) rich in nutrients and so supporting a dense plant population, the decomposition of which kills animal life by depriving it of oxygen.
- exophoria — (ophthalmology) A form of heterophoria in which there is a tendency of the eyes to deviate outward.
- exophoric — Relating to, or exhibiting, exophora.
- exophytic — (pathology) In pathology, pertaining to growth of a tumor outward.
- exosphere — The outermost region of a planet's atmosphere.
- exstrophy — (medicine) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface.
- flophouse — a cheap, run-down hotel or rooming house.
- galumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of galumph.
- galumpher — a person or animal that leaps or moves heavily or clumsily
- genophobe — A person who has a psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse.
- geography — the science dealing with the areal differentiation of the earth's surface, as shown in the character, arrangement, and interrelations over the world of such elements as climate, elevation, soil, vegetation, population, land use, industries, or states, and of the unit areas formed by the complex of these individual elements.
- geophagia — Consumption of clay, chalk or dirt.
- geophilic — soil-loving
- geophones — Plural form of geophone.
- geophytes — Plural form of geophyte.
- geophytic — Relating to geophytes.
- geosphere — the solid portion of the earth (distinguished from atmosphere, hydrosphere).
- glasphalt — a road-surfacing material composed of asphalt and crushed glass.
- godolphin — Sidney, 1st Earl of, 1645–1712, English statesman and financier.
- gomphoses — an immovable articulation in which one bone or part is received in a cavity in another, as a tooth in its socket.
- gomphosis — an immovable articulation in which one bone or part is received in a cavity in another, as a tooth in its socket.
- gonophore — an asexually produced bud in hydrozoans that gives rise to the equivalent of a medusa.
- gophering — any of several ground squirrels of the genus Citellus, of the prairie regions of North America.
- graphemes — Plural form of grapheme.
- graphemic — Of or pertaining to graphemes or their study.
- graphical — giving a clear and effective picture; vivid: a graphic account of an earthquake.
- graphited — Modified by the addition of graphite.
- graphitic — a very common mineral, soft native carbon, occurring in black to dark-gray foliated masses, with metallic luster and greasy feel: used for pencil leads, as a lubricant, and for making crucibles and other refractories; plumbago; black lead.
- gynophobe — a person who hates or fears women
- gynophore — the elongated stalk of a pistil.
- halophile — any organism, as certain halobacteria and marine bacteria, that requires a salt-rich environment for its growth and survival.
- halophily — the ability or predisposition to thrive in an extremely salty environment
- halophobe — a creature that is unable to live in salty conditions
- halophyte — a plant that thrives in saline soil.
- handphone — A cordless or cellular phone.
- haphazard — characterized by lack of order or planning, by irregularity, or by randomness; determined by or dependent on chance; aimless.
- haphtarah — Haftarah.
- harrumphs — Plural form of harrumph.
- harumphed — Simple past tense and past participle of harumph.
- headphone — Audio. a headset designed for use with a stereo system.
- hedyphane — a white or yellow mineral with elongated crystals similar to mimetite, chiefly found in Sweden
- helophyte — any perennial marsh plant that bears its overwintering buds in the mud below the surface
- hemolymph — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
- hemophile — a hemophiliac.
- hemotroph — the material from the maternal bloodstream and placenta that nourishes a mammalian embryo.
- hephzibah — the wife of Hezekiah and the mother of Manasseh. II Kings 21:1.
- hiphugger — (of a garment) having a close-fitting waistline placed at the hip rather than at the natural waist: hiphugger jeans.
- hodograph — the figure described by the extremity of a vector that has a fixed origin and a position vector equal to the velocity of a moving particle.
- holograph — Also, holographic [hol-uh-graf-ik, hoh-luh-] /ˌhɒl əˈgræf ɪk, ˌhoʊ lə-/ (Show IPA), holographical. wholly written by the person in whose name it appears: a holograph letter.
- holophote — an apparatus by which practically all the light from a lighthouse lamp or the like is thrown in a desired direction.