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10-letter words containing a, p, c, h

  • pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
  • pentateuch — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
  • perithecia — the fruiting body of ascomycetous fungi, typically a minute, more or less completely closed, globose or flask-shaped body enclosing the asci.
  • peritricha — ciliate protozoans, of the order Peritrichida, in which the cilia are restricted to a spiral around the mouth
  • petechiate — having or marked with petechiae.
  • petrarchan — of, relating to, or characteristic of the works of Petrarch.
  • pettichaps — any of the warblers that belongs to the family Sylviinae
  • petty cash — funds kept for minor expenses
  • ph balance — a method of expressing the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a solution
  • phagedenic — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
  • phagocytic — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
  • phallicism — worship of the phallus, especially as symbolic of power or of the generative principle of nature.
  • phallocrat — a male who assumes authority over females due to his maleness
  • phaneritic — (of a rock) having the principal constituents in the form of crystals visible to the naked eye.
  • phantasmic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
  • pharmacist — a person licensed to prepare and dispense drugs and medicines; druggist; apothecary; pharmaceutical chemist.
  • pharmacol. — pharmacology
  • phatically — in a phatic manner
  • 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solid, C 1 0 H 1 3 NO 2 , used in medicine chiefly as an agent for checking or preventing fever or for relieving pain: withdrawn because of unfavorable side effects.
  • philatelic — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
  • phlegmatic — not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.
  • phocomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
  • phoenician — a native or inhabitant of Phoenicia.
  • phone call — telephone call
  • phone card — calling card (def 3).
  • 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.
  • phonically — of or relating to speech sounds.
  • phosphatic — of, relating to, or containing phosphates: phosphatic slag.
  • photically — in a photic manner, by way of photic processes
  • phrenesiac — hypochondriacal
  • phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
  • phthisical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected by phthisis.
  • phylactery — 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.
  • phylloclad — cladophyll
  • physiatric — physical medicine.
  • physically — relating to the body or its appearance: He is not physically attractive.
  • physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
  • picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
  • pichiciago — any of several small armadillos of the genera Chalmyphorus and Burmeisteria, of southern South America.
  • picnic ham — a section of boned and smoked pork shoulder
  • pictograph — pictogram
  • pina cloth — a fine, sheer fabric of pineapple-leaf fiber, used especially for lingerie.
  • pitch lake — a deposit of natural asphalt in SW Trinidad, West Indies. 114 acres (47 hectares).
  • pitch-dark — dark or black as pitch: a pitch-dark night.
  • 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.
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