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9-letter words containing p, a, t, h

  • autophoby — the reluctance to refer to oneself or be egotistical
  • autophone — (archaic) idiophone.
  • autophony — a diagnosis made by listening to vibration of one's own voice on the patient's chest
  • autophyte — an autotrophic plant, such as any green plant
  • autotroph — any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists.
  • auxotroph — a mutant strain of microorganism having nutritional requirements additional to those of the normal organism
  • bang path — 1.   (communications)   An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address naming a sequence of hosts through which a message must pass to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee (a "source route"). So called because each hop is signified by a bang sign (exclamation mark). Thus, for example, the path ...!bigsite!foovax!barbox!me directs people to route their mail to computer bigsite (presumably a well-known location accessible to everybody) and from there through the computer foovax to the account of user me on barbox. Before autorouting mailers became commonplace, people often published compound bang addresses using the convention (see glob) to give paths from *several* big computers, in the hope that one's correspondent might be able to get mail to one of them reliably. e.g. ...!{seismo, ut-sally, ihnp4}!rice!beta!gamma!me Bang paths of 8 to 10 hops were not uncommon in 1981. Late-night dial-up UUCP links would cause week-long transmission times. Bang paths were often selected by both transmission time and reliability, as messages would often get lost. 2.   (operating system)   A shebang.
  • base path — the prescribed course for a base runner on the field extending in designated areas between the bases.
  • bath chap — the lower part of the cheek of a pig, cooked and eaten, usually cold
  • bepatched — mended with or covered in patches
  • bethphage — a place in ancient Israel, at the foot of the Mount of Olives: starting point of Jesus' ride into Jerusalem. Matt. 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29.
  • bhaktapur — a city in E central Nepal, near Kathmandu.
  • bike path — A bike path is a special path on which people can travel by bicycle separately from motor vehicles.
  • cachepots — Plural form of cachepot.
  • cadetship — a student in a national service academy or private military school or on a training ship.
  • caliphate — the office, jurisdiction, or reign of a caliph
  • campshirt — a loose, short-sleeved shirt or blouse with an open collar
  • cashpoint — A cashpoint is the same as a cash dispenser.
  • cataphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word used subsequently in the same discourse
  • cataphyll — a simplified form of plant leaf, such as a scale leaf or cotyledon
  • catch pit — a pit in a drainage system in which matter that might otherwise block a sewer is collected so that it may periodically be removed
  • catch-ups — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
  • catchpole — (in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors
  • catchpoll — (formerly) a petty officer of justice, especially one arresting persons for debt.
  • cathepsin — a proteolytic enzyme responsible for the autolysis of cells after death
  • catheptic — of or relating to enzymes that catalyze autolysis in death or pathological conditions
  • cenotaphs — Plural form of cenotaph.
  • cephalate — (of living organisms) possessing a head or headlike feature
  • chaetopod — any annelid worm of the classes Oligochaeta or Polychaeta
  • chalkpits — Plural form of chalkpit.
  • champerty — (formerly) an illegal bargain between a party to litigation and an outsider whereby the latter agrees to pay for the action and thereby share in any proceeds recovered
  • chapattis — Plural form of chapatti.
  • chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
  • chapleted — wearing a wreath or garland on the head
  • chapstick — a cylinder of a substance for preventing or soothing chapped lips
  • chapter 7 — the statute regarding liquidation proceedings that empowers a court to appoint a trustee to operate a failing business to prevent further loss
  • chapteral — of or pertaining to a chapter
  • chaptered — a main division of a book, treatise, or the like, usually bearing a number or title.
  • chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
  • chassepot — a breech-loading bolt-action rifle formerly used by the French Army
  • chautemps — Camille [ka-mee-yuh] /kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1963, French politician: premier 1930, 1933–34, 1937–38.
  • cheap out — to take the cheapest option; try to do something as cheaply as possible
  • chinstrap — a strap that goes under the chin
  • chipolata — a small sausage in a narrow casing
  • chopsteak — chopped steak.
  • classpath — (programming) an argument that tells the Java virtual machine where to look for user-defined classes and packages when running Java programs.
  • cloth cap — A cloth cap is a soft flat cap with a stiff, curved part at the front called a peak. Cloth caps are usually worn by men.
  • cloth-cap — pertaining to or characteristic of the working class.
  • crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
  • cyclepath — a special path for the exclusive use of cyclists
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