13-letter words containing e, p, i, h, n
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
- opening night — the first performance of a theatrical attraction, taking place in the evening: The audience was full of celebrities on opening night.
- optical bench — an apparatus, as a special table or rigid beam, for the precise positioning of light sources, screens, and optical instruments used for optical and photometric studies, having a ruled bar to which these devices can be attached and along which they can be readily adjusted.
- over-shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- painted horse — paint (def 6).
- panaesthetism — the belief that consciousness may be present in all matter
- panel heating — heating of a room or building by means of wall, ceiling, floor, or baseboard panels containing heating pipes or electrical conductors.
- pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- paraphernalia — (sometimes used with a singular verb) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia.
- parasynthesis — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
- parasynthetic — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
- parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
- parenthetical — of, pertaining to, noting, or of the nature of a parenthesis: several unnecessary parenthetic remarks.
- paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
- party machine — the internal organization of a political party, which decides its policies and directs its activities
- path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
- pathogenicity — the disease-producing capacity of a pathogen.
- pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- pennine chain — a range of hills in N England, extending from the S Midlands to the Cheviot Hills.
- penny pincher — a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
- penny whistle — a type of flageolet with six finger holes, esp a cheap one made of metal
- penny-pincher — a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
- pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
- pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
- penthemimeral — (of a caesura) occurring after the first penthemimer of a poetic line, i.e. in the middle of the third foot
- perching bird — any member of the avian order Passeriformes.
- perchlorinate — to combine with the maximum proportion of chlorine.
- perennibranch — any amphibian that retains its gills throughout its life
- perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
- perinephritis — the inflammation of the perinephrium
- phalansterian — of or relating to a phalanstery.
- phalansterism — a model of society in which members of a community live in the same space and share common belongings
- phallocentric — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- pharyngealize — to pronounce with pharyngeal coarticulation.
- phencyclidine — an anesthetic drug, C 1 7 H 2 5 N, used as an animal tranquilizer: also widely used in several forms as an illicit hallucinogen.
- phenmetrazine — a compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO, used chiefly to control the appetite in the treatment of obesity.
- 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.
- phenoxy resin — any of a class of resins derived from polyhydroxy ethers
- phenylalanine — a crystalline, water-soluble, essential amino acid, C 6 H 5 CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, necessary to the nutrition of humans and most animals, obtained chiefly from egg white or skim milk. Symbol: F. Abbreviation: Phe;
- phenylephrine — an alpha-adrenergic stimulant, C 1 9 H 1 3 NO 2 , used chiefly as a nasal decongestant.
- phenylic acid — phenol (def 1).
- philhellenism — a friend or supporter of the Greeks.