12-letter words containing e, p, i, h, o
- philosophize — to speculate or theorize, usually in a superficial or imprecise manner.
- phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
- phlebotomize — to subject to phlebotomy; bleed.
- phlegmagogic — a medication that is intended to dislodge and evacuate mucus from the respiratory system
- phoenixville — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- phonasthenia — difficult or abnormal voice production; vocal weakness.
- phonemically — of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.
- phonesthemic — (of a speech sound) shared by a set of echoic or symbolic words, as the sn- of sneer, snarl, snatch, snide, snitch, snoop, etc.
- 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.
- photo relief — a method of showing the configuration of the relief of an area by photographing a model of it that is illuminated by a lamp in the northwest corner
- photo-ageing — premature wrinkling of the skin caused by overexposure to sunlight
- photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
- photoexcited — increased in energy due to photoexcitation
- photogelatin — pertaining to any photographic process in which gelatin is used to receive or transfer a print.
- photoinduced — induced by light.
- photokinesis — movement occurring upon exposure to light.
- photomachine — a machine that prints copies of digital photographs
- photooxidize — to undergo or cause to undergo photooxidation
- 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.
- photosetting — photocompose.
- photothermic — pertaining to the thermal effects of light.
- phrenologist — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
- phrenologize — to treat with phrenology or phrenological methods
- phrontistery — a place or establishment for thinking, studying, or learning
- phylogenesis — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- phylogenetic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
- physiologies — the branch of biology dealing with the functions and activities of living organisms and their parts, including all physical and chemical processes.
- 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.
- phytogenesis — the origin and development of plants.
- phytonadione — vitamin K1.
- picture show — motion picture.
- picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
- pidyon haben — the rite of relieving the first male child born to parents not descended from Aaron or Levi of certain religious obligations by redeeming him from a member of the priestly class, celebrated 30 days after the child's birth.
- pigeon-chest — chicken breast.
- pinch roller — a flexible device that presses magnetic tape against the capstan in a tape recorder.
- pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
- pleomorphism — existence of an organism in two or more distinct forms during the life cycle; polymorphism.
- poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
- 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.
- police chief — chief of police: head of a US police force
- policyholder — the individual or firm in whose name an insurance policy is written; an insured.
- polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
- polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
- polycythemic — relating to polycythemia
- polyhedrosis — an often fatal disease of certain insect larvae or decapod crustaceans, caused by viruses containing DNA.