11-letter words containing h, a, t, s
- partnership — the state or condition of being a partner; participation; association; joint interest.
- pas de chat — a jump of one foot over the other.
- 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.
- pastry chef — cook who specializes in patisserie
- pataphysics — a supposed branch of philosophy or science that studies imaginary phenomena beyond the realm of metaphysics; the science of imaginary solutions.
- patch space — An unused block of bits left in a binary so that it can later be modified by insertion of machine-language instructions there (typically, the patch space is modified to contain new code, and the superseded code is patched to contain a jump or call to the patch space). The widening use of HLLs has made this term rare; it is now primarily historical outside IBM shops. See patch, zap, hook.
- path pascal — Parallel extension of Pascal. Processes have shared access to data objects. Constraints on their synchronisation are specified in a path expression.
- pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- pathologist — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- patron-ship — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- patroonship — a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial privileges granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.
- patty shell — a cup-shaped shell of light, flaky pastry, for serving vegetable, fish, or meat mixtures, usually with a sauce.
- pea-shooter — a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
- peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach
- 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.
- peristalith — a group of stones encircling a mound, dolmen, or the like.
- persulphate — a sulphuric acid salt of a base peroxide
- petrarchism — the poetic style introduced by Petrarch and characteristic of his work, marked by complex grammatical structure, elaborate conceits, and conventionalized diction.
- petrarchist — a person who imitates the literary style employed by Petrarch, especially the poets of the English Renaissance who employed the Petrarchan sonnet style.
- phagocytose — phagocytize.
- phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
- phantasiast — a person who adhered to the religious doctrine that Christ had no substantial reality
- phantasmata — phantasm (defs 1, 2).
- pharyngitis — inflammation of the mucous membrane of the pharynx; sore throat.
- philatelist — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- phonematics — phonemics.
- phonetastic — (communications) A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
- phoniatrics — the study and treatment of voice disorders.
- phosphatase — any of several classes of esterases of varying specificity that catalyze the hydrolysis of phosphoric esters.
- phosphatide — phospholipid.
- phosphatize — to treat with phosphates.
- phosphorate — Also, phosphorize. Chemistry. to combine or impregnate with phosphorus.
- photo essay — a group of photographs, usually with supplementary text, that conveys a unified story and is published as a book or as a feature in a magazine or newspaper.
- photomosaic — mosaic (def 4).
- photostated — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- photostatic — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- phthiriasis — crab lice infestation.
- phyllotaxis — phyllotaxy.
- physiatrics — physical medicine.
- physiatrist — a physician specializing in physical medicine.
- 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.
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- physiolatry — the worship of nature
- pintsch gas — gas with high illuminating power made from shale oil or petroleum, used in buoys, lighthouses, and railroad cars.
- pirate ship — vessel sailed by sea robbers
- pissasphalt — a sticky semi-liquid form of bitumen that is similar to tar
- plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.