13-letter words containing h, i, p, a
- 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.
- phonocamptics — the branch of acoustics dealing with echoes
- phony disease — a disease of peaches, characterized by dwarfing, dark-green leaves, premature leafing and flowering, and the production of reduced numbers of small fruit, caused by a virus, Nanus mirabilis.
- phosphokinase — an increase in the amount of creatine phosphokinase that is released into the bloodstream when a muscle becomes injured
- phospholipase — any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the breaking down of phospholipids.
- 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.
- photoacoustic — optoacoustic
- photoallergic — photosensitive.
- photochemical — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light.
- photocopiable — able or legally permitted to be photocopied
- photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- photogelatine — relating to photographic processes in which gelatine is used in receiving or transferring prints
- photographing — a picture produced by photography.
- photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
- photoreaction — a chemical reaction that involves or requires light.
- photovoltaics — (used with a singular verb) a field of semiconductor technology involving the direct conversion of electromagnetic radiation as sunlight, into electricity.
- phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
- phreatophytic — of, possessing the properties of, or relating to a phreatophyte
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- phthalic acid — Chemistry. any of three isomeric acids having the formula C 8 H 6 O 4 , especially the ortho isomer (orthophthalic acid) a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes, medicine, and perfume.
- physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
- physical file — (file system) A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
- physicalistic — of or relating to physicalism.
- physicalities — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
- physicianship — the position, function, or office of a physician.
- physiographic — the science of physical geography.
- physiological — of or relating to physiology.
- physiotherapy — physical therapy.
- phytochemical — Also called phytonutrient. any of various bioactive chemical compounds found in plants, as antioxidants, considered to be beneficial to human health.
- phytosanitary — of or relating to the health of plants
- piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
- picardy third — a major third in the final tonic chord of a composition written in a minor key.
- pigheadedness — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
- pipiwharauroa — a Pacific migratory bird with a metallic green-gold plumage
- pitch surface — (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.
- pitcher plant — any of various insectivorous New World bog plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, and Heliamphora, having tubular or trumpet-shaped leaves containing a liquid in which insects are trapped.
- 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
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- platycephalic — having a head whose cranial vault is broad or flat.
- platyhelminth — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes; a flatworm.
- play hob with — to make trouble for; interfere with and make disordered
- playwrighting — the writing of plays
- pleasant hill — a city in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
- 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.
- pointy-headed — stupid; idiotic.