12-letter words containing h, e, p
- parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
- parlor house — (especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries) a brothel with a comfortable, often elaborately decorated parlor for the reception of clients.
- parochialise — to make parochial.
- parochialize — to make parochial.
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- pass the hat — a shaped covering for the head, usually with a crown and brim, especially for wear outdoors.
- passage hawk — a young hawk during its first migration.
- patch pocket — a pocket formed by sewing a piece of shaped material to the outside of a garment.
- patent right — the exclusive right granted by a patent, as on an invention.
- pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
- pathetically — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pathlessness — the state of being pathless
- pathogeneses — the production and development of disease.
- pathogenesis — the production and development of disease.
- pathogenetic — the production and development of disease.
- patriarchate — the office, dignity, jurisdiction, province, or residence of an ecclesiastical patriarch.
- pave the way — be a pioneer
- peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
- pearl harbor — a harbor near Honolulu, on S Oahu, in Hawaii: surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base and other military installations December 7, 1941.
- pearl hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
- pearly white — white and lustrous as a pearl.
- pebble beach — a beach covered with pebbles or stones rather than sand
- pebbledashed — covered with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
- pedomorphism — a speeding up of the rate of development, resulting in an adult form that has the appearance of its larval or juvenile ancestor.
- peeblesshire — a historic county in S Scotland.
- pelican hook — a hooklike device for holding the link of a chain or the like, consisting of a long shackle with a hinged rod held closed with a sliding ring.
- peltier heat — the heat gained or lost at a junction of a thermocouple due to the Peltier effect.
- pelton wheel — a high-pressure impulse water turbine in which one or more free jets of water are directed against the buckets of the rotor.
- penalty shot — a free shot at the goal defended only by the goalkeeper, awarded to an offensive player for certain defensive violations.
- penny shares — Penny shares are shares that are offered for sale at a low price.
- pennywhistle — a cheap toy whistle orig. sold for a penny
- pentahydrate — a hydrate that contains five molecules of water, as potassium molybdate, KMoO 4 ⋅5H 2 O.
- pentahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing five hydroxyl groups.
- pentateuchal — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
- penthesileia — the daughter of Ares and queen of the Amazons, whom she led to the aid of Troy. She was slain by Achilles
- peppershaker — a container with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper.
- peppershrike — either of two large vireos of the genus Cyclarhis, ranging from Mexico to Chile, and having heavy shrikelike bills.
- perichaetial — denoting the leaves in mosses that surround the archegonia and, later, the base of the sporophyte
- perichaetium — a leafy cluster (bracts) around the base of the reproductive organs of some plants, predominantly mosses
- perichoresis — the relationship between or interlinking of the three Persons of the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit)
- pericynthion — the point at which a spacecraft launched from earth into a lunar orbit is nearest the moon
- perinephrium — the capsule of connective tissue that envelops the kidney.
- perionychium — the epidermis surrounding the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
- peripherally — pertaining to, situated in, or constituting the periphery: peripheral resistance on the outskirts of the battle area.
- periphrastic — circumlocutory; roundabout.
- peristrephic — that turns around or revolves
- peritrichate — (of bacteria) having flagella on the entire surface.
- peritrichous — (of bacteria) having a uniform distribution of flagella over the body surface.
- perphenazine — a crystalline, water-insoluble powder, C 2 1 H 2 6 ClN 3 OS, used chiefly as a tranquilizer and in the treatment of intractable hiccoughs and nausea and vomiting.
- persulphuric — denoting a type of acid