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13-letter words containing h, i, p, o, r, e

  • pharmacopoeia — a book published usually under the jurisdiction of the government and containing a list of drugs, their formulas, methods for making medicinal preparations, requirements and tests for their strength and purity, and other related information.
  • phenobarbital — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
  • phenoxy resin — any of a class of resins derived from polyhydroxy ethers
  • philosophizer — to speculate or theorize, usually in a superficial or imprecise manner.
  • phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
  • photoallergic — photosensitive.
  • photoelectric — pertaining to the electronic or other electric effects produced by light.
  • photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
  • photophoresis — the move away from a strong light source by previously suspended particles in a gas
  • photoreaction — a chemical reaction that involves or requires light.
  • 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.
  • phycoerythrin — a red protein pigment occurring in red algae.
  • physiotherapy — physical therapy.
  • phytonutrient — phytochemical.
  • piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
  • picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • porkpie (hat) — a man's soft hat with a round, flat crown
  • posix threads — (programming)   (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
  • possessorship — to have as belonging to one; have as property; own: to possess a house and a car.
  • power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
  • preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
  • premonishment — a forewarning
  • primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
  • private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
  • professorship — the office or post of a professor.
  • prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
  • prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • prosectorship — the position or responsibility of a prosector
  • protectorship — a person or thing that protects; defender; guardian.
  • pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
  • psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
  • pyrheliometer — an instrument for measuring the total intensity of the sun's energy radiation.
  • pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
  • rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
  • reprographics — reprography.
  • reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
  • rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
  • rosehip syrup — a syrup made from rosehips, used as a cough remedy
  • schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
  • schizophrenic — Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • ship's stores — a retail store aboard a navy ship that sells toiletries, cigarettes, etc., to the ship's personnel.
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