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11-letter words containing h, i, p, a

  • physiatrics — physical medicine.
  • physiatrist — a physician specializing in physical medicine.
  • physicalise — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
  • physicalism — 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.
  • 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.
  • physicalize — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
  • physiciancy — the position, job, or office of physician
  • physiolater — somebody who worships nature
  • physiolatry — the worship of nature
  • phytic acid — a white to pale-yellow, water-soluble liquid, C 6 H 1 8 O 2 4 P 6 , found in cereal grains: used chiefly to chelate heavy metals during the manufacture of animal fats and vegetable oils and as a water-softening agent.
  • phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
  • pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
  • pictography — the use of pictographs; picture writing.
  • picture hat — a woman's hat having a very broad, flexible brim, often decorated with feathers, flowers, or the like.
  • pigeon hawk — merlin.
  • pillow sham — an ornamental cover laid over a bed pillow.
  • pilot chart — any of a number of charts issued to mariners by the U.S. Hydrographic Office and showing meteorological, hydrographic, and navigational conditions prevailing, or likely to prevail, subsequent to the date of issue in some part of the world: issued monthly for most areas.
  • pilot whale — a small, common whale, Globicephala sieboldii, of tropical and temperate seas, having a bulbous head.
  • pin-feather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
  • pinacotheca — a place where works of art are displayed or stored
  • pinch pleat — a narrow pleat that is usually part of a series at the top of curtains.
  • 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
  • pitch chain — power chain.
  • pitch plane — (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.
  • pitch-black — extremely black or dark as pitch: a pitch-black night.
  • pitch-faced — (of a stone) having all arrises in the same plane and the faces roughly dressed with a pick.
  • planigraphy — an x-ray photograph in which a given plane of the body is well defined and those above and below it purposely out of focus.
  • planisphere — a map of half or more of the celestial sphere with a device for indicating the part of a given location visible at a given time.
  • platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
  • plerophoria — full conviction
  • plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
  • pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
  • polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
  • polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
  • porphyratin — any of various complex compounds formed of metals and porphyrins
  • post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • postholiday — occurring after a holiday
  • potato chip — a thin slice of potato fried until crisp and usually salted.
  • potty-chair — a small chair with an open seat over a removable pot, for use by a child during toilet training.
  • power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
  • praetorship — the office of a praetor.
  • prajadhipok — 1893–1941, king of Siam 1925–35.
  • pre-ethical — not governed by ethics, or not having an ethical or moral aspect
  • pre-hearing — the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.
  • 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.
  • pre-spanish — of or relating to Spain, its people, or their language.
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