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12-letter words containing e, p, i, h, a

  • panhellenism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all Greeks in one political body.
  • panhellenium — an institution founded by the Roman Emperor Hadrian idealizing Greece's Classical history
  • pantechnicon — a furniture van; moving van.
  • paper-weight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
  • paperhanging — the activity or business of a paperhanger.
  • papier-mache — a substance made of pulped paper or paper pulp mixed with glue and other materials or of layers of paper glued and pressed together, molded when moist to form various articles, and becoming hard and strong when dry.
  • pappenheimer — a heavy rapier of the 17th century, having a swept guard with two perforated plates.
  • paraesthesia — an abnormal sensation, as prickling, itching, etc.
  • paraesthetic — paresthesia.
  • paramorphine — thebaine.
  • paranthelion — a bright spot in the sky caused by refraction and occurring at an angular distance from the sun of between 90° and 140°
  • parasphenoid — a bone next to the sphenoid bone in the skull of some animals
  • parchmentize — to treat (paper or the like) so that it resembles parchment.
  • parenthesize — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
  • parish clerk — an official designated to carry out various duties, either for a church parish or a parish council
  • parish house — a building used by a church chiefly for administrative and social purposes.
  • parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
  • parochialise — to make parochial.
  • parochialize — to make parochial.
  • patent right — the exclusive right granted by a patent, as on an invention.
  • pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
  • pathetically — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • pathogenesis — the production and development of disease.
  • pathogenetic — the production and development of disease.
  • patriarchate — the office, dignity, jurisdiction, province, or residence of an ecclesiastical patriarch.
  • pearl hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
  • pearly white — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
  • peltier heat — the heat gained or lost at a junction of a thermocouple due to the Peltier effect.
  • penthesileia — the daughter of Ares and queen of the Amazons, whom she led to the aid of Troy. She was slain by Achilles
  • perichaetial — denoting the leaves in mosses that surround the archegonia and, later, the base of the sporophyte
  • perichaetium — a leafy cluster (bracts) around the base of the reproductive organs of some plants, predominantly mosses
  • peripherally — pertaining to, situated in, or constituting the periphery: peripheral resistance on the outskirts of the battle area.
  • periphrastic — circumlocutory; roundabout.
  • peritrichate — (of bacteria) having flagella on the entire surface.
  • perphenazine — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 2 1 H 2 6 ClN 3 OS, used chiefly as a tranquilizer and in the treatment of intractable hiccoughs and nausea and vomiting.
  • petach tikva — a city in W Israel, NE of Tel Aviv.
  • petite sirah — a dry red wine produced mainly in California
  • phaeomelanin — a variety of melanin that gives rise to a red-coloured pigment
  • phalaenopsis — any of various epiphytic orchids of the genus Phalaenopsis, native to tropical Asia, having clusters of showy, variously colored flowers.
  • phanerogamic — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • pharmaceutic — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
  • 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.
  • pharmacopeia — 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.
  • phenarsazine — a type of toxin that originates from arsenic
  • phengophobia — an abnormal dread or terror of natural light
  • 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.
  • phenylalanin — an essential amino-acid present in most proteins
  • philadelphia — a city in SE Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River: Declaration of Independence signed here July 4, 1776.
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