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11-letter words containing a, n, e, p, h, r

  • nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
  • ocean perch — redfish (def 1).
  • open-hearth — noting, pertaining to, or produced by the open-hearth process.
  • openhearted — Frank and candid.
  • orthopteran — orthopterous.
  • paint horse — paint (def 6).
  • pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
  • panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
  • paper chain — a decorative chain of loops of coloured paper
  • paperhanger — a person whose job is covering walls with wallpaper.
  • paranephric — located near the kidney
  • paranephros — the adrenal gland
  • paraphernal — (sometimes used with a singular verb) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia.
  • paraphrenia — a type of severe paranoid schizophrenia
  • parchedness — the state or characteristic of being parched
  • parenchymal — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • parentheses — either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
  • parenthesis — either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
  • parenthetic — of, pertaining to, noting, or of the nature of a parenthesis: several unnecessary parenthetic remarks.
  • parishioner — one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.
  • partnership — the state or condition of being a partner; participation; association; joint interest.
  • pentahedron — a solid figure having five faces.
  • pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
  • phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
  • phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • phanerozoic — the eon comprising the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras.
  • philanderer — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
  • phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
  • pin-feather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
  • plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
  • plane crash — an accident in which an aircraft hits land or water and is damaged or destroyed
  • planisphere — a map of half or more of the celestial sphere with a device for indicating the part of a given location visible at a given time.
  • plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
  • planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
  • platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
  • pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
  • power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
  • pre-hearing — the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.
  • pre-spanish — of or relating to Spain, its people, or their language.
  • preachiness — the quality of being preachy; a preachy style, esp a tedious one
  • preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • prefreshman — before being a freshman
  • prehispanic — Spanish.
  • preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
  • prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
  • pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
  • ralph naderRalph, born 1934, U.S. lawyer, author, political reformer, and consumer advocate.
  • renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
  • retinopathy — any diseased condition of the retina, especially one that is noninflammatory.
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