12-letter words containing a, l, p, h, c
- parcel shelf — flat storage panel in a vehicle
- parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
- parochialise — to make parochial.
- parochialism — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
- parochialist — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
- parochialize — to make parochial.
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- paschal lamb — Jewish History. a lamb slaughtered and eaten on the eve of the first day of Passover. Ex. 12:3–11.
- pathetically — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pathological — of or relating to pathology.
- pebble beach — a beach covered with pebbles or stones rather than sand
- pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
- pentateuchal — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
- perichaetial — denoting the leaves in mosses that surround the archegonia and, later, the base of the sporophyte
- phallocratic — relating to a male, or the beliefs assumed by such, who assumes authority over females due to his maleness
- phantasmical — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- pharmacolite — hydrous calcium arsenate, 2CaO⋅As 2 O 5 ⋅5H 2 O, formed by natural alteration of mineral deposits containing arsenopyrite and arsenical ores of cobalt and silver.
- pharmacology — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
- phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
- philharmonic — fond of or devoted to music; music-loving: used especially in the name of certain musical societies that sponsor symphony orchestras (Philharmonic Societies) and hence applied to their concerts (philharmonic concerts)
- phlegmagogic — a medication that is intended to dislodge and evacuate mucus from the respiratory system
- phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
- phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- phonological — relating to study of speech sounds
- photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
- photonuclear — of, relating to, or caused by the collision of high-energy photons with the nucleus of an atom.
- photovoltaic — of or relating to the photovoltaic effect.
- phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
- pitch a tale — to tell a story, usually of a fantastic nature
- place-holder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- plasma torch — an electrical device for converting a gas into a plasma, used for melting metal
- plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
- play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
- play clothes — clothes that are suitable for playing in
- pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
- poland china — one of an American breed of black hogs having white markings.
- poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
- polyarchical — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polychaetous — of or relating to the genus Polychaeta
- polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
- polypharmacy — the use of two or more drugs together, usually to treat a single condition or disease.
- postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
- press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.