11-letter words containing h, a, p, y
- physiatrist — a physician specializing in physical medicine.
- physicalise — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- physicalism — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
- physicalist — a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to observable properties of spatiotemporal things or events.
- physicality — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
- physicalize — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- physiciancy — the position, job, or office of physician
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- physiolatry — the worship of nature
- phytic acid — a white to pale-yellow, water-soluble liquid, C 6 H 1 8 O 2 4 P 6 , found in cereal grains: used chiefly to chelate heavy metals during the manufacture of animal fats and vegetable oils and as a water-softening agent.
- phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
- phytography — the branch of botany dealing with the description of plants.
- pictography — the use of pictographs; picture writing.
- planigraphy — an x-ray photograph in which a given plane of the body is well defined and those above and below it purposely out of focus.
- planography — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
- pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
- polyalcohol — polyol.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
- polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polyphagous — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
- pornography — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
- porphyratin — any of various complex compounds formed of metals and porphyrins
- postholiday — occurring after a holiday
- potty-chair — a small chair with an open seat over a removable pot, for use by a child during toilet training.
- pre-holiday — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
- prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
- prophylaxis — Medicine/Medical. the preventing of disease. the prevention of a specific disease, as by studying the biological behavior, transmission, etc., of its causative agent and applying a series of measures against it.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- psaligraphy — the art of cutting out silhouettes
- psammophyte — a plant that grows in sand or sandy soil.
- psychagogue — a necromancer
- psychedelia — the realm or artifacts of psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like.
- psychiatric — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- psychically — of or relating to the human soul or mind; mental (opposed to physical).
- psychoanal. — psychoanalysis
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
- psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
- psychograph — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- psychomancy — occult communication between souls or with spirits.
- psychopathy — a mental disorder in which an individual manifests amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
- ptochocracy — government by the poor
- pyelography — the science or technique of making photographs of the kidneys, renal pelves, and ureters by means of x-rays, after the injection of an opaque solution or of a radiopaque dye.
- pyrrhuloxia — a cardinallike grosbeak, Cardinalis (Pyrrhuloxia) sinuatus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a bill superficially resembling that of a parrot.
- pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
- quadraphony — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
- quasi-happy — delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.