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10-letter words containing h, a, r, p, e

  • over-happy — delighted, pleased, or glad, as over a particular thing: to be happy to see a person.
  • pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
  • pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
  • packthread — a strong thread or twine for sewing or tying up packages.
  • page chair — a chair of the 18th century having deep wings continued to form an arch over the seat.
  • page three — a feature found on the third page of the British tabloid newspaper The Sun, consisting of a photograph of a female model with naked breasts
  • pale horse — a representation of Death, as in literature or the Bible.
  • panhandler — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
  • pantheress — a female panther
  • pantherine — resembling a panther in manner or appearance
  • pantothere — any animal of the extinct order Pantotheria that lived during the late Mesozoic Era, believed to be the ancestor of the marsupial and placental mammals.
  • paper shop — A paper shop is a shop that sells newspapers and magazines, and also things such as tobacco, sweets, and cards.
  • paper-thin — extremely thin: a paper-thin razor blade.
  • paperwhite — polyanthus (sense 2)
  • paraphrase — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
  • paraphyses — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
  • parathesis — the placing of grammatically parallel words or phrases together; apposition
  • parenchyma — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • parenthood — the state, position, or relation of a parent.
  • parischane — a parish
  • park bench — a long seat made of wood or metal that two or more people can sit on, placed in a public place or open space in a town
  • parthenope — a siren, who drowned herself when Odysseus evaded the lure of the sirens' singing. Her body was said to have been cast ashore at what became Naples
  • pas marche — a marching step.
  • passphrase — (operating system)   A string of words and characters that you type in to authenticate yourself. Passphrases differ from passwords only in length. Passwords are usually short - six to ten characters. Passphrases are usually much longer - up to 100 characters or more. Modern passphrases were invented by Sigmund N. Porter in 1982. Their greater length makes passphrases more secure. Phil Zimmermann's popular encryption program PGP, for example, requires you to make up a passphrase that you then must enter whenever you sign or decrypt messages.
  • pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
  • patch reef — an isolated coral growth forming a small platform in a lagoon, barrier reef, or atoll.
  • pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • pe teacher — a teacher of Physical Education
  • peacherino — peach1 (def 4).
  • peak hours — prime time, busiest period
  • peashooter — a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
  • pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
  • perihelial — the point in the orbit of a planet or comet at which it is nearest to the sun.
  • peripheral — pertaining to, situated in, or constituting the periphery: peripheral resistance on the outskirts of the battle area.
  • periphrase — the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
  • perishable — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
  • perithecia — the fruiting body of ascomycetous fungi, typically a minute, more or less completely closed, globose or flask-shaped body enclosing the asci.
  • peritricha — ciliate protozoans, of the order Peritrichida, in which the cilia are restricted to a spiral around the mouth
  • permadeath — (in a game, often a video game) the permanent death of a defeated character, after which the player of the game cannot continue with the same character.
  • petrarchan — of, relating to, or characteristic of the works of Petrarch.
  • petrograph — petroglyph.
  • petrolhead — a person who is excessively interested in or is devoted to travelling by car
  • phaneritic — (of a rock) having the principal constituents in the form of crystals visible to the naked eye.
  • phanerogam — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • pharyngeal — of, relating to, or situated near the pharynx.
  • phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
  • pheasantry — a place where pheasants are bred or are kept together
  • pheromonal — relating to or constituting a pheromone
  • phlebogram — venogram.
  • phloem ray — a vascular ray extending into or located entirely within the secondary phloem.
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