10-letter words containing a, n, p, h
- phaneritic — (of a rock) having the principal constituents in the form of crystals visible to the naked eye.
- phanerogam — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- phantasime — a person who is extremely imaginative and fanciful
- phantasize — to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by about): to fantasize about the ideal job.
- phantasmal — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phantasmic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phantastry — a display of flamboyance or extravagance
- phantomish — resembling or reminiscent of a phantom
- pharyngeal — of, relating to, or situated near the pharynx.
- pheasantry — a place where pheasants are bred or are kept together
- phenacaine — a compound, C 1 8 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , usually used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local anesthetic for the eye.
- phenacetin — a white, slightly water-soluble, crystalline solid, C 1 0 H 1 3 NO 2 , used in medicine chiefly as an agent for checking or preventing fever or for relieving pain: withdrawn because of unfavorable side effects.
- phenolated — containing phenol; carbolated.
- phenomenal — highly extraordinary or prodigious; exceptional: phenomenal speed.
- phenoplast — phenolic resin.
- pheromonal — relating to or constituting a pheromone
- philippian — a ruined city in NE Greece, in Macedonia: Octavian and Mark Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius here, 42 b.c.; the site of one of the first Christian churches in Europe, founded by St. Paul.
- philippina — a German custom in which nuts containing two kernels are saved and one of these double kernels (called a philippina) is given to a person of the opposite sex. The next time the two people meet, the first one who calls 'philippina' must be bought a present (also called a philippina) by the other
- philistian — an ancient country on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- philoxenia — an act of hospitableness and welcome
- phoenician — a native or inhabitant of Phoenicia.
- phomvihane — Kaysone (ˈkaɪsɒn). 1920–92, Laotian Communist statesman; prime minister of Laos (1975–91); president (1991–92)
- phone call — telephone call
- phone card — calling card (def 3).
- phone mail — voice mail
- phone-jack — to steal the mobile phone from (a person)
- phonematic — phonemic.
- phonetical — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- phoney war — A phoney war is when two opposing groups are openly hostile towards each other, as if they were at war, but there is no real fighting.
- phonically — of or relating to speech sounds.
- phonograph — any sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or discs.
- phosphagen — a high-energy phosphoric ester that serves as a reservoir of phosphate-bond energy, as phosphocreatine in vertebrates and phosphoarginine in invertebrates.
- photoaging — damage to the skin, as wrinkles or discoloration, caused by prolonged exposure to sunlight.
- photonasty — a nastic movement in response to a change in light intensity
- phrenesiac — hypochondriacal
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- picnic ham — a section of boned and smoked pork shoulder
- pina cloth — a fine, sheer fabric of pineapple-leaf fiber, used especially for lingerie.
- pinfeather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
- pitchwoman — a female pitchman
- plainchant — plainsong (defs 1, 2).
- planchette — a small, heart-shaped board supported by two casters and a pencil or stylus that, when moved across a surface by the light, unguided pressure of the fingertips, is supposed to trace meaningful patterns or written messages revealing subconscious thoughts, psychic phenomena, clairvoyant messages, etc.
- planigraph — an x-ray photograph in which a given plane of the body is well defined and those above and below it purposely out of focus.
- planograph — (formerly) to print from a flat surface.
- play-lunch — a schoolchild's mid-morning snack
- ploughland — land that is ploughed for growing crops
- poachiness — the state of being poachy
- pocahontas — (Rebecca Rolfe) 1595?–1617, American Indian woman who is said to have prevented the execution of Captain John Smith.
- poison haw — a shrub, Viburnum molle, of the central U.S., having white flowers and bluish-black fruit.