13-letter words containing a, p, i, h, o
- outwash plain — Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
- overemphasise — (British) alternative spelling of overemphasize.
- overemphasize — to emphasize excessively.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
- painted horse — paint (def 6).
- palm off with — If you say that you are palmed off with a lie or an excuse, you are annoyed because you are told something in order to stop you asking any more questions.
- palm-oil chop — a W African dish made with meat and palm oil
- palos heights — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- panharmonicon — a mechanical instrument that imitates orchestral sounds
- pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
- parapophysial — of or relating to a parapophysis
- parapsychosis — an abnormal psychosis
- parthian shot — a sharp, telling remark, act, gesture, etc., made in departing.
- past historic — the simple past
- pathogenicity — the disease-producing capacity of a pathogen.
- pathognomonic — Medicine/Medical. characteristic or diagnostic of a specific disease: a pathognomonic sign of pneumonia.
- pathomorphism — abnormal morphology.
- peacock chair — a wicker armchair with a high, circular back.
- peccatophobia — an abnormal fear of sinning.
- pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
- perchlorinate — to combine with the maximum proportion of chlorine.
- petrochemical — a chemical substance obtained from petroleum or natural gas, as gasoline, kerosene, or petrolatum.
- petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
- phallocentric — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- pharmacologic — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
- pharmacopoeia — a book published usually under the jurisdiction of the government and containing a list of drugs, their formulas, methods for making medicinal preparations, requirements and tests for their strength and purity, and other related information.
- phelloplastic — an image or a representation that has been fashioned from cork
- phenobarbital — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
- phenomenalism — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
- phenomenality — highly extraordinary or prodigious; exceptional: phenomenal speed.
- phenomenalize — to regard or interpret as a phenomenon.
- phenothiazine — Chemistry. a grayish-green to greenish-yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 1 2 H 9 NS, used chiefly as an insecticide and vermifuge, and in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals.
- philanthropic — of, pertaining to, engaged in, or characterized by philanthropy; benevolent: a philanthropic foundation.
- philo judaeus — c20 b.c.–a.d. c50, Alexandrian Jewish theologian and philosopher.
- philosophical — of or relating to philosophy: philosophical studies.
- phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
- phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
- phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
- phone-tapping — Phone-tapping is the activity of listening secretly to someone's phone conversations using special electronic equipment. In most cases phone-tapping is illegal.
- phong shading — (graphics) A model of how light is reflected from surfaces used extensively in three dimensional graphics to generate visually realistic images.
- phonocamptics — the branch of acoustics dealing with echoes
- phony disease — a disease of peaches, characterized by dwarfing, dark-green leaves, premature leafing and flowering, and the production of reduced numbers of small fruit, caused by a virus, Nanus mirabilis.
- phosphokinase — an increase in the amount of creatine phosphokinase that is released into the bloodstream when a muscle becomes injured
- phospholipase — any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the breaking down of phospholipids.
- photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
- photo-stating — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- photoacoustic — optoacoustic
- photoallergic — photosensitive.
- photochemical — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light.