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11-letter words containing a, l, i, p, h, t

  • phyllotaxis — phyllotaxy.
  • physicalist — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
  • physicality — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
  • physiolater — somebody who worships nature
  • physiolatry — the worship of nature
  • phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
  • pilot chart — any of a number of charts issued to mariners by the U.S. Hydrographic Office and showing meteorological, hydrographic, and navigational conditions prevailing, or likely to prevail, subsequent to the date of issue in some part of the world: issued monthly for most areas.
  • pilot whale — a small, common whale, Globicephala sieboldii, of tropical and temperate seas, having a bulbous head.
  • pinch pleat — a narrow pleat that is usually part of a series at the top of curtains.
  • pissasphalt — a sticky semi-liquid form of bitumen that is similar to tar
  • pitch plane — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • pitch-black — extremely black or dark as pitch: a pitch-black night.
  • platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
  • plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
  • postholiday — occurring after a holiday
  • pre-ethical — not governed by ethics, or not having an ethical or moral aspect
  • prelateship — the rank of a prelate
  • prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • prothalamia — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
  • prothalloid — resembling a prothallus
  • retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
  • retrophilia — a strong liking for things from the past
  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • sales pitch — promotional talk
  • shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
  • sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
  • spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
  • split hairs — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
  • split-phase — pertaining to or noting a current in one of two parallel circuits that have a single-phase current source but unequal impedances and that produce currents of different phase.
  • staphylinid — rove beetle.
  • staphylitis — inflammation of the soft palate or uvula
  • tailhopping — the act of hopping to lift the tails of the skis off the ground while flexing the knees into a crouching position
  • telegraphic — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • telepathist — a student of or believer in telepathy.
  • telepathize — to communicate with by telepathy.
  • the capitol — the main building of the US Congress
  • thesis play — a play that develops or defends a particular thesis.
  • trophically — of or relating to nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.
  • tulip chair — an armchair designed by Eero Saarinen in 1956, having a contoured seat of molded plastic supported by a slender, stemlike pedestal of plastic-covered cast metal that terminates in a large, flat, round foot.
  • westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
  • whip-tailed — having a long, slender tail like a whip.
  • whitechapel — a district in E London, England.
  • xiphocostal — Pertaining to the xiphoid process and the ribs.
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