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11-letter words containing h, e, a, d, p

  • hypnopaedia — Teaching (or learning) by subconscious means.
  • hypoid gear — a gear resembling a bevel gear in form but designed to mesh with a similar gear in such a way that their axes would not intersect, one axis crossing over the other at approximately a right angle.
  • ideographic — an ideogram.
  • indian hemp — a North American dogbane, Apocynum cannabinum, having erect clusters of greenish-white flowers and a root with laxative and emetic properties.
  • isodiaphere — one of two or more nuclides in which the difference between the number of neutrons and the number of protons is the same
  • judeophobia — Alternative case form of Judeophobia.
  • lady chapel — a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, attached to a church, and generally behind the high altar at the extremity of the apse.
  • lakshadweep — a union territory of India comprising a group of islands and coral reefs in the Arabian Sea, off the SW coast of India. About 12 sq. mi. (31 sq. km).
  • leader-ship — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
  • leaderships — Plural form of leadership.
  • metaphrased — Translated literally.
  • middle path — the conduct of life by a religious person in such a way as to avoid the extremes of luxury and asceticism.
  • mis-phrased — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
  • mishappened — Simple past tense and past participle of mishappen.
  • monographed — Simple past tense and past participle of monograph.
  • open-handed — generous; liberal: openhanded hospitality.
  • openhearted — Frank and candid.
  • orthopaedic — of or relating to orthopedics.
  • pachydermal — having the characteristics of a pachyderm
  • pachydermia — an abnormal thickening of the skin
  • pachydermic — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
  • paedophilia — Paedophilia is sexual activity with children or the condition of being sexually attracted to children.
  • paedotrophy — the art of raising children
  • paraldehyde — a colorless, liquid, cyclic compound, C 6 H 1 2 O 3 , having a disagreeable taste but an agreeable odor, produced by the polymerization of acetaldehyde with sulfuric acid: used chiefly in the manufacture of organic chemicals and in medicine as a sedative and hypnotic.
  • parchedness — the state or characteristic of being parched
  • pas de chat — a jump of one foot over the other.
  • pear-shaped — having the shape of a pear; tapering near the top and bulging toward the base or bottom: a pear-shaped vase.
  • pebble dash — an exterior wall finish composed of mortar against which, while still wet, small pebbles have been thrown and pressed in.
  • pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
  • pedophiliac — pedophile.
  • peng dehuai — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist military leader: defense minister 1954–59.
  • pentahedron — a solid figure having five faces.
  • pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
  • phagedaenic — relating to or having the characteristics of phagedaena
  • phase speed — the speed at which the phase of a wave is propagated, the product of the frequency times the wavelength. This is the quantity that is determined by methods using interference. In a dispersive medium it differs from the group speed
  • philanderer — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
  • phosphatide — phospholipid.
  • 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.
  • phylloclade — a flattened stem or branch having the function of a leaf.
  • pitch-faced — (of a stone) having all arrises in the same plane and the faces roughly dressed with a pick.
  • placeholder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
  • plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
  • pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
  • poached egg — A poached egg is an egg cooked gently in boiling water, without its shell.
  • pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
  • poppet head — the framework above a mining shaft that supports the winding mechanism
  • pouched rat — pocket gopher.
  • power ahead — If an economy or company powers ahead, it becomes stronger and more successful.
  • 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.
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
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