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12-letter words containing a, p, o, h, t, i

  • orthopedical — (American spelling) Alternative form of orthopaedical.
  • overemphatic — excessive or undue emphasis.
  • palaeolithic — the period of the emergence of primitive man and the manufacture of unpolished chipped stone tools, about 2.5 million to 3 million years ago until about 12 000 bc
  • panchromatic — sensitive to all visible colors, as a photographic film.
  • panning shot — pan3 (def 6).
  • pantechnicon — a furniture van; moving van.
  • pantophagist — an omnivore
  • paranthelion — a bright spot in the sky caused by refraction and occurring at an angular distance from the sun of between 90° and 140°
  • parochialist — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
  • parting shot — a threat, insult, condemnation, sarcastic retort, or the like, uttered upon leaving.
  • passing shot — a shot played to one side of and beyond the reach of an opponent coming to or stationed at the net.
  • pathobiology — pathology with emphasis on the biological aspects of disease
  • pathogenesis — the production and development of disease.
  • pathogenetic — the production and development of disease.
  • pathological — of or relating to pathology.
  • phagocytosis — Physiology. the ingestion of a smaller cell or cell fragment, a microorganism, or foreign particles by means of the local infolding of a cell's membrane and the protrusion of its cytoplasm around the fold until the material has been surrounded and engulfed by closure of the membrane and formation of a vacuole: characteristic of amebas and some types of white blood cells.
  • phagocytotic — relating to phagocytosis
  • phallocratic — relating to a male, or the beliefs assumed by such, who assumes authority over females due to his maleness
  • phantom limb — a phenomenon characterized by the experience of pain, discomfort, or other sensation in the area of a missing limb or other body part, as a breast.
  • 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.
  • phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
  • phentolamine — an alpha blocker, C 1 7 H 1 9 N 3 O, used to reduce hypertensive states caused by a catecholamine excess, as in the treatment of pheochromocytoma.
  • philanthropy — altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons, by endowment of institutions of learning and hospitals, and by generosity to other socially useful purposes.
  • phonasthenia — difficult or abnormal voice production; vocal weakness.
  • 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.
  • phonocamptic — possessing the property of reflecting sound or producing an echo
  • phonotactics — the patterns in which the phonemes of a language may combine to form sequences.
  • phosphatidic — of or relating to a phosphatide
  • phosphatidyl — an atom or group of atoms containing one or more unpaired electrons derived from a phosphatide
  • phosphaturia — the presence of an excessive quantity of phosphates in the urine.
  • photo-ageing — premature wrinkling of the skin caused by overexposure to sunlight
  • photoactinic — emitting radiation having the chemical effects of light and ultraviolet rays, as on a photographic film.
  • photodynamic — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
  • photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
  • photogelatin — pertaining to any photographic process in which gelatin is used to receive or transfer a print.
  • photographic — of or relating to photography.
  • photomachine — a machine that prints copies of digital photographs
  • photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • photovoltaic — of or relating to the photovoltaic effect.
  • phycoxanthin — a yellow pigment found in brown seaweeds and types of algae
  • physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
  • 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.
  • phytonadione — vitamin K1.
  • pictographic — a pictorial sign or symbol.
  • pigtail hook — a screw hook having an eye in the form of a spiral for holding a loop, chain link, etc., at any angle.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
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