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11-letter words containing e, p, i, h

  • paint horse — paint (def 6).
  • paleolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the cultures of the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs, or early phase of the Stone Age, which appeared first in Africa and are marked by the steady development of stone tools and later antler and bone artifacts, engravings on bone and stone, sculpted figures, and paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters: usually divided into three periods (Lower Paleolithic, c2,000,000–c200,000 b.c., Middle Paleolithic, c150,000–c40,000 b.c., Upper Paleolithic, c40,000–c10,000 b.c.)
  • pamphletize — to write a pamphlet.
  • pan-atheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
  • panathenaia — a festival in honor of the goddess Athena, celebrated yearly in ancient Athens, with each fourth year reserved for greater pomp, marked by contests, as in athletics and music, and highlighted by a solemn procession to the Acropolis bearing a peplos embroidered for the goddess.
  • panathenaic — of or relating to a Panathenaea, a festival in honor of the goddess Athena.
  • panel thief — a thief who secretly robs the customers in a panel house.
  • panentheism — the belief that God is a part of the universe as well as transcending it
  • panentheist — someone who believes that God is a part of the universe as well as transcending it
  • panesthesia — total awareness and perception
  • panhellenic — of or relating to all Greeks or to Panhellenism.
  • pantheistic — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
  • pantheonize — to place, especially to bury, in a pantheon: The author will be pantheonized following the funeral mass.
  • pantothenic — denoting an acid which is a growth-promoting vitamin of vitamin B complex
  • paper birch — a North American birch, Betula papyrifera, having a tough bark and yielding a valuable wood: the state tree of New Hampshire.
  • paper chain — a decorative chain of loops of coloured paper
  • paperweight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
  • paranephric — located near the kidney
  • paraphrenia — a type of severe paranoid schizophrenia
  • parenthesis — either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
  • parenthetic — of, pertaining to, noting, or of the nature of a parenthesis: several unnecessary parenthetic remarks.
  • paresthesia — an abnormal sensation, as prickling, itching, etc.
  • paresthetic — an abnormal sensation, as prickling, itching, etc.
  • parishioner — one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.
  • partnership — the state or condition of being a partner; participation; association; joint interest.
  • pasticheuse — a woman who makes or composes a pastiche.
  • pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
  • pathologize — to represent (something) as a disease
  • pear thrips — a minute, slender-bodied insect, Taeniothrips inconsequens, that eats the blossoms of flowering plants and is a common pest of pear, maple, almond, apple, and other trees in the eastern U.S.
  • peckishness — the state or condition of being peckish
  • pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
  • pedomorphic — a speeding up of the rate of development, resulting in an adult form that has the appearance of its larval or juvenile ancestor.
  • pedophiliac — pedophile.
  • peevishness — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
  • pele's hair — volcanic glass thread, usually basaltic, caused by the solidification of exploding or ejected lava in the open air.
  • pelvic arch — (in vertebrates) a bony or cartilaginous arch supporting the hind limbs or analogous parts.
  • peng dehuai — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist military leader: defense minister 1954–59.
  • pennyweight — (in troy weight) a unit of 24 grains or 1/20 of an ounce (1.56 grams). Abbreviation: dwt, pwt.
  • pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
  • penthemimer — a unit in poetry consisting of two and a half metrical feet
  • perchloride — the chloride of any particular element or group with the maximum proportion of chlorine.
  • perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
  • perihepatic — surrounding the liver; located around the liver
  • perinephric — the capsule of connective tissue that envelops the kidney.
  • peripherals — pertaining to, situated in, or constituting the periphery: peripheral resistance on the outskirts of the battle area.
  • peripheries — the external boundary of any surface or area.
  • periphrasis — the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
  • perishables — perishable articles, esp food
  • peristalith — a group of stones encircling a mound, dolmen, or the like.
  • perithecial — of, pertaining to, or having a perithecium
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