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11-letter words containing h, o, t, e, a

  • other woman — a woman who is romantically or sexually involved with another woman's husband or lover, especially a woman who is having an affair with a married man.
  • outreaching — Present participle of outreach.
  • overdraught — (chiefly, British) An overdraft.
  • overfraught — too fraught
  • overharvest — the harvesting of plants or animals in an unsustainable manner
  • overhastily — in such a way as to be excessively hasty or done without enough consideration
  • overheating — heating (something) excessively
  • overleather — the upper part of a shoe
  • overweather — to expose too long to harsh weather
  • oveta hobby — Oveta Culp [kuhlp] /kʌlp/ (Show IPA), 1905–1995, U.S. newspaper publisher and government official: first director of Women's Army Corps 1942–45; first Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1953–55.
  • paedotrophy — the art of raising children
  • paint horse — paint (def 6).
  • paleolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the cultures of the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs, or early phase of the Stone Age, which appeared first in Africa and are marked by the steady development of stone tools and later antler and bone artifacts, engravings on bone and stone, sculpted figures, and paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters: usually divided into three periods (Lower Paleolithic, c2,000,000–c200,000 b.c., Middle Paleolithic, c150,000–c40,000 b.c., Upper Paleolithic, c40,000–c10,000 b.c.)
  • panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
  • pantheology — a branch of theology embracing all gods and all religions
  • pantheonize — to place, especially to bury, in a pantheon: The author will be pantheonized following the funeral mass.
  • pantothenic — denoting an acid which is a growth-promoting vitamin of vitamin B complex
  • pate a chou — French Cookery. cream puff paste.
  • pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
  • pathologize — to represent (something) as a disease
  • pea-shooter — a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
  • peach stone — the stone in the centre of the fruit the peach
  • pelotherapy — the application of mud to the body for therapeutic purposes
  • pentahedron — a solid figure having five faces.
  • perchlorate — a salt or ester of perchloric acid, as potassium perchlorate, KClO 4 .
  • perth amboy — a seaport in E New Jersey.
  • petrography — the branch of petrology dealing with the description and classification of rocks, especially by microscopic examination.
  • phagocytize — (of a phagocyte) to devour (material).
  • phagocytose — phagocytize.
  • phantomlike — an apparition or specter.
  • phonematics — phonemics.
  • phonetastic — (communications)   A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
  • phonetician — a specialist in phonetics or in some aspect of phonetics.
  • phosphatase — any of several classes of esterases of varying specificity that catalyze the hydrolysis of phosphoric esters.
  • phosphatide — phospholipid.
  • phosphatize — to treat with phosphates.
  • phosphorate — Also, phosphorize. Chemistry. to combine or impregnate with phosphorus.
  • photo essay — a group of photographs, usually with supplementary text, that conveys a unified story and is published as a book or as a feature in a magazine or newspaper.
  • photoactive — the activation or control of a chemical, chemical reaction, or organism by light, as the activation of chlorophyll by sunlight during photosynthesis.
  • photostated — 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.
  • physiolater — somebody who worships nature
  • phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
  • pilot whale — a small, common whale, Globicephala sieboldii, of tropical and temperate seas, having a bulbous head.
  • pinacotheca — a place where works of art are displayed or stored
  • planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
  • plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
  • plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
  • pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
  • pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
  • poppet head — the framework above a mining shaft that supports the winding mechanism
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