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9-letter words containing p, h, o, n, i

  • pantihose — (used with a plural verb) a one-piece, skintight garment worn by women, combining panties and stockings.
  • parathion — a deep-brown to yellow, poisonous liquid, C 1 0 H 1 4 NO 5 PS, used as an insecticide.
  • parhelion — a bright circular spot on a solar halo; a mock sun: usually one of two or more such spots seen on opposite sides of the sun, and often accompanied by additional luminous arcs and bands.
  • parsonish — like a parson
  • pharaonic — (sometimes lowercase) of or like a Pharaoh: living in Pharaonic splendor.
  • phaseolin — a type of proteid that is present in the kidney bean
  • phelonion — a liturgical vestment resembling a chasuble.
  • phenolics — any of the class of thermosetting resins formed by the condensation of phenol, or of a phenol derivative, with an aldehyde, especially formaldehyde: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and plastics and as adhesives for sandpaper and plywood.
  • phenolion — phelonion.
  • phenoxide — phenolate (def 1).
  • phenytoin — a barbiturate-related substance, C 1 5 H 1 2 N 2 O 2 , used as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of grand mal epilepsy and in focal seizures.
  • philogyny — love of or liking for women.
  • philopena — a custom, presumably of German origin, in which two persons share the kernels of a nut and determine that one shall receive a forfeit from the other at a later time upon the saying of a certain word or the performance of a certain action.
  • phlorizin — a bitter, crystalline glucoside, C 2 1 H 2 4 O 1 0 , obtained from the root bark of the apple, pear, cherry, etc.: formerly used as a tonic and in the treatment of malaria; now used chiefly in biochemical research.
  • phoenicia — an ancient kingdom on the Mediterranean, in the region of modern Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
  • phonation — rapid, periodic opening and closing of the glottis through separation and apposition of the vocal cords that, accompanied by breath under lung pressure, constitutes a source of vocal sound.
  • phonemics — the study of phonemes and phonemic systems.
  • phonetics — (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
  • phonetism — the science of speech sounds and of writing phonetically
  • phonetist — a person who uses or advocates phonetic spelling.
  • phoniness — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
  • phonolite — a fine-grained volcanic rock composed chiefly of alkali feldspar and nepheline, some varieties of which split into pieces that ring on being struck.
  • phosphine — a colorless, poisonous, ill-smelling, flammable gas, PH 3 .
  • photonics — the study and technology of the use of light for the transmission of information.
  • phronesis — wisdom in determining ends and the means of attaining them.
  • picholine — a variety of mild green olive from France which is cured in salt brine
  • pinchcock — a clamp for compressing a flexible pipe, as a rubber tube, in order to regulate or stop the flow of a fluid.
  • pinhooker — someone who trades in young racehorses for profit
  • pinocchio — the hero of Carlo Collodi's children's story, The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883), a wooden puppet who comes to life as a boy and whose nose grows longer whenever he tells a lie.
  • ploughing — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • polyanthi — hybrid garden primroses
  • porphyrin — a dark red, photosensitive pigment consisting of four pyrrole rings linked by single carbon atoms: a component of chlorophyll, heme, and vitamin B 1 2 .
  • pothering — commotion; uproar.
  • potholing — exploring caves
  • premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
  • pro-hindu — a person, especially of northern India, who adheres to Hinduism.
  • prosthion — the most forward projecting point of the anterior surface of the upper jaw, in the midsagittal plane.
  • rhapontic — a type of rhubarb
  • rhipidion — a fan used in Greek Orthodox church services
  • rhodopsin — a bright-red photosensitive pigment found in the rod-shaped cells of the retina of certain fishes and most higher vertebrates: it is broken down by the action of dim light into retinal and opsin.
  • shipborne — carried on a ship.
  • shipowner — a person who owns a ship or ships.
  • shippound — a Baltic measure of weight roughly equivalent to 300-400 pounds
  • shotpoint — A shotpoint is a place at the surface of the Earth where a seismic source is activated.
  • sinophile — a person who admires or has a strong liking for China, the Chinese, or their culture.
  • siphonage — the action of a siphon.
  • siphonate — (of molluscs) having a syphon
  • siphoning — a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.
  • sophonias — Zephaniah.
  • symphonia — any of various medieval musical instruments, as the hurdy-gurdy.
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