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11-letter words containing h, a, p, u

  • judeophobia — Alternative case form of Judeophobia.
  • kanchipuram — a city in SE India, in Tamil Nadu: a sacred Hindu town known as "the Benares of the South"; textile industries. Pop: 152 984 (2001)
  • leprechauns — a dwarf or sprite.
  • linguaphile — a language and word lover.
  • lump hammer — a heavy hammer used for driving stakes or breaking stone
  • macrophylum — a group of languages that are of a higher order than a phylum
  • manure heap — a pile of animal excreta, esp on a farm, kept for use as fertiliser
  • match up to — If someone or something does not match up to what was expected, they are smaller, less impressive, or of poorer quality.
  • meliphagous — feeding on honey
  • mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • monophagous — feeding on only one kind of food.
  • multiphasic — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
  • munich pact — the pact signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany on September 29, 1938, by which the Sudetenland was ceded to Germany: often cited as an instance of unwise and unprincipled appeasement of an aggressive nation.
  • murphy game — a confidence game in which the victim pays the swindler (Murphy Man) for something, as the services of a prostitute, which the swindler promises but the victim never receives
  • museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
  • mycophagous — feeding on fungi.
  • naturopaths — Plural form of naturopath.
  • naturopathy — a system or method of treating disease that employs no surgery or synthetic drugs but uses special diets, herbs, vitamins, massage, etc., to assist the natural healing processes.
  • neuropathic — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
  • noun phrase — a construction that functions syntactically as a noun, consisting of a noun and any modifiers, as all the men in the room who are reading books, or of a noun substitute, as a pronoun.
  • opera house — a theater devoted chiefly to operas.
  • ophidiarium — an enclosure for snakes, adapted to their normal living conditions
  • orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.
  • pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
  • panel house — a brothel having rooms with secret entrances, as sliding panels, for admitting panel thieves.
  • parachuting — descent using parachute
  • parachutist — sb who makes parachute jumps
  • parashurama — a Rama and avatar of Vishnu who rid the earth of Kshatriyas.
  • parish pump — of only local interest; parochial
  • passthrough — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
  • pasticheuse — a woman who makes or composes a pastiche.
  • patch quilt — a patchwork quilt
  • pate a chou — French Cookery. cream puff paste.
  • pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
  • peng dehuai — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist military leader: defense minister 1954–59.
  • persulphate — a sulphuric acid salt of a base peroxide
  • phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
  • photo album — bound book for photos
  • pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
  • picture hat — a woman's hat having a very broad, flexible brim, often decorated with feathers, flowers, or the like.
  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
  • plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
  • plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
  • plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
  • pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
  • pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
  • polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
  • polyphagous — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
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