13-letter words containing h, i, t, r, a
- parenthetical — of, pertaining to, noting, or of the nature of a parenthesis: several unnecessary parenthetic remarks.
- parish priest — local church minister
- parking light — The parking lights on a vehicle are the small lights at the front that help other drivers to notice the vehicle and to judge its width.
- parma heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- parthian shot — a sharp, telling remark, act, gesture, etc., made in departing.
- party machine — the internal organization of a political party, which decides its policies and directs its activities
- past historic — the simple past
- path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
- pathomorphism — abnormal morphology.
- patriarchally — of or relating to a patriarch, the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc.: my father's conservative, patriarchal ways.
- pay the piper — a person who plays on a pipe.
- pearly whites — white and lustrous as a pearl.
- pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
- penthemimeral — (of a caesura) occurring after the first penthemimer of a poetic line, i.e. in the middle of the third foot
- perchlorinate — to combine with the maximum proportion of chlorine.
- perihepatitis — the inflammation of the part of the peritoneum surrounding the liver
- perilymphatic — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
- peripherality — the quality of being peripheral
- perishability — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
- petrochemical — a chemical substance obtained from petroleum or natural gas, as gasoline, kerosene, or petrolatum.
- petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
- phalansterian — of or relating to a phalanstery.
- phalansterism — a model of society in which members of a community live in the same space and share common belongings
- phallocentric — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- phenmetrazine — a compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO, used chiefly to control the appetite in the treatment of obesity.
- 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.
- philanthropic — of, pertaining to, engaged in, or characterized by philanthropy; benevolent: a philanthropic foundation.
- photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
- photoallergic — photosensitive.
- photographing — a picture produced by photography.
- 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
- physiotherapy — physical therapy.
- 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.
- 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.
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- playwrighting — the writing of plays
- polyarthritis — arthritis occurring in more than one joint.
- polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
- pontchartrain — Lake, a shallow extension of the Gulf of Mexico in SE Louisiana, N of New Orleans. 41 miles (66 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.
- 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).
- pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- pre-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
- pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.