9-Letter Words Containing: A,P,H,A,R

• 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status

• a short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah

• a photographic image produced on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than visible light (especially by X-rays or gamma rays)

• a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound

• a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens

• (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration

• a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix

• electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves

• an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter

• pile of discarded metal

• almond paste and egg whites