13-letter words containing h, a, t, e, p, r
- photoallergic — photosensitive.
- photoreaction — a chemical reaction that involves or requires light.
- phototelegram — a telegram that is sent by means of phototelegraphy
- phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
- phreatophytic — of, possessing the properties of, or relating to a phreatophyte
- physiotherapy — physical therapy.
- phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
- piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- pitcher plant — any of various insectivorous New World bog plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, and Heliamphora, having tubular or trumpet-shaped leaves containing a liquid in which insects are trapped.
- plant hormone — an organic chemical, as auxin, produced by plant cells and functioning at various sites to regulate growth, turning, metabolic processes, etc.
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
- pneumatograph — pneumograph.
- pneumatophore — Botany. a specialized structure developed from the root in certain plants growing in swamps and marshes, serving as a respiratory organ.
- porkpie (hat) — a man's soft hat with a round, flat crown
- posix threads — (programming) (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
- potato-masher — a kitchen implement used to crush or mash potatoes
- poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
- pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- pre-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
- pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
- preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
- preattachment — an act of attaching or the state of being attached.
- press attaché — the official in an embassy who has the job of liaising with the media
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
- private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- protest march — public demonstration
- protochordate — any of the nonvertebrate chordates, as the tunicates, cephalochordates, and hemichordates.
- psychotherapy — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
- pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
- puritan ethic — work ethic.
- pyretotherapy — therapy by raising the body temperature, as by diathermy or by artificially inducing fever.
- pyrimethamine — a potent substance, C 1 2 H 1 3 ClN 4 , used against susceptible plasmodia in the prophylactic treatment of malaria and against Toxoplasma gondi in the treatment of toxoplasmosis.
- pyrophosphate — a salt or ester of pyrophosphoric acid.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quarter-phase — differing in phase by a quarter of a cycle; two-phase.
- ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
- rapprochement — an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations: a rapprochement reached between warring factions.
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
- rhaetian alps — a section of the central Alps along E Switzerland's borders with Austria and Italy. Highest peak: Piz Bernina, 4049 m (13 284 ft)
- richard petty — Richard, born 1937, U.S. racing-car driver.
- sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
- sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.