13-letter words containing h, i, g, o, p
- phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
- phone-tapping — Phone-tapping is the activity of listening secretly to someone's phone conversations using special electronic equipment. In most cases phone-tapping is illegal.
- phong shading — (graphics) A model of how light is reflected from surfaces used extensively in three dimensional graphics to generate visually realistic images.
- photo-biology — the study of the effects of light on biological systems.
- photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
- photo-stating — 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.
- photoallergic — photosensitive.
- photogelatine — relating to photographic processes in which gelatine is used in receiving or transferring prints
- photogeologic — of or relating to photogeology
- photographing — a picture produced by photography.
- photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
- phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- phyllogenetic — of or relating to the development of leaves.
- physiognomies — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- physiographic — the science of physical geography.
- physiological — of or relating to physiology.
- physostigmine — an alkaloid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease to raise the level of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and also as a miotic in glaucoma.
- piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
- pitching tool — a masonry chisel for rough work
- plagiocephaly — a deformity of the skull in which one side is more developed in the front, and the other side is more developed in the rear.
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- point shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
- point-shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
- polling booth — a booth in which voters cast their votes.
- polygamophile — a person who approves of or countenances polygamy, especially as practiced by others.
- post-midnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
- potato blight — fungal disease affecting potatoes
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- print-through — the unwanted transfer of a recorded magnetic field pattern from one turn of magnetic tape to the preceding or succeeding turn on a reel, causing distortion
- psychobiology — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- psychogenesis — genesis of the psyche.
- psychogenetic — genesis of the psyche.
- psychographic — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- psychological — of or relating to psychology.
- psychotogenic — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
- put to flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
- quota-hopping — (in the EU) the practice of obtaining the right to catch a part of a country's national quota for fish in European waters by buying licences from its fishermen
- reprographics — reprography.
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- shipping room — a place in a business concern where goods are packed and shipped.
- shocking pink — a vivid or intensely bright pink.
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- shopping list — a list made by a shopper of items or goods to be bought.
- shopping mall — mall (def 1).
- shopping trip — visit to the shops
- show-stopping — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna