10-letter words containing a, s, h, p, i
- panatheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- pansophism — a claim or pretension to pansophy.
- pansophist — someone with universal knowledge
- paraphasia — a defect of speech in which the normal flow of words is interrupted by inappropriate words and phrases
- paraphasic — of, resembling, or exhibiting paraphasia
- paraphysis — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- parathesis — the placing of grammatically parallel words or phrases together; apposition
- parischane — a parish
- parrotfish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
- paschal ii — (Ranieri) died 1118, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1099–1118.
- pasigraphy — a system of writing intelligible to persons of all languages; a universal language
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- pastorship — the position, authority, or office of a pastor.
- patchiness — characterized by or made up of patches.
- patriarchs — the male head of a family or tribal line.
- patronship — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- penmanship — the art of handwriting; the use of the pen in writing.
- pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
- periphrase — the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
- perishable — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
- pettichaps — any of the warblers that belongs to the family Sylviinae
- phalangist — a member of a Lebanese Christian paramilitary organization founded in 1936 and originally based on similar ideas to the fascist Falange in Spain
- phallicism — worship of the phallus, especially as symbolic of power or of the generative principle of nature.
- 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.
- phantasmic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phantomish — resembling or reminiscent of a phantom
- pharisaism — the principles and practices of the Pharisees.
- pharmacist — a person licensed to prepare and dispense drugs and medicines; druggist; apothecary; pharmaceutical chemist.
- philistian — an ancient country on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- phlegmasia — a condition characterized by swelling, pain, and redness
- phosphatic — of, relating to, or containing phosphates: phosphatic slag.
- phototaxis — movement of an organism toward or away from a source of light.
- phragmites — any of several tall grasses of the genus Phragmites, having plumed heads, growing in marshy areas, especially the common reed P. australis (or P. communis).
- phrenesiac — hypochondriacal
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- phthisical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected by phthisis.
- 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.
- poachiness — the state of being poachy
- poison haw — a shrub, Viburnum molle, of the central U.S., having white flowers and bluish-black fruit.
- polyphasic — having more than two phases.
- prankishly — in a prankish manner, mischievously
- preachings — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- psychiatry — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- punishable — liable to or deserving punishment.