11-letter words containing h, p, g, l
- oesophageal — esophageal.
- oligotrophy — the state of being oligotrophic, or deficient in nutrients but high in oxygen.
- ophiologist — the branch of herpetology dealing with snakes.
- opthamology — Misspelling of ophthalmology.
- paleography — ancient forms of writing, as in documents and inscriptions.
- panhandling — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
- pantheology — a branch of theology embracing all gods and all religions
- paphlagonia — an ancient country and Roman province in N Asia Minor, on the S coast of the Black Sea.
- pathologies — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- pathologist — the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases.
- pathologize — to represent (something) as a disease
- petroglyphy — the skill or procedure of making rock carvings
- phase angle — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- philography — the collecting of autographs, especially those of famous persons.
- philologian — a philologist.
- philologist — the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.
- phlebograph — an instrument for recording the venous pulse.
- phonologist — a specialist in phonology.
- photoflight — pertaining to a flight made for the purpose of aerial photography.
- photoglyphy — the art or process of engraving using the action of light
- phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- phycologist — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- physiologic — of or relating to physiology.
- physiologus — an ancient Greek book containing stories and tales with moral content about real and mythical animals
- pigeon-hole — one of a series of small, open compartments, as in a desk, cabinet, or the like, used for filing or sorting papers, letters, etc.
- pigeonholer — someone who likes to pigeonhole people or things
- pilot light — Also called pilot, pilot burner. a small flame kept burning continuously, as in a gas stove or furnace, to relight the main gas burners whenever necessary or desired.
- pinwheeling — a child's toy consisting of a wheel or leaflike curls of paper or plastic loosely attached by a pin to a stick, designed to revolve when blown by or as by the wind.
- 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.
- planography — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
- 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.
- plenishings — furnishings or equipment
- plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plough into — If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
- polarograph — a device for analysing ions in solution by using an electrolytic cell with a very small cathode
- polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
- polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polyphagous — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
- preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
- psaligraphy — the art of cutting out silhouettes
- psychologic — of or relating to psychology.
- publishings — the activities or business of a publisher, especially of books or periodicals: He plans to go into publishing after college.
- pyelography — the science or technique of making photographs of the kidneys, renal pelves, and ureters by means of x-rays, after the injection of an opaque solution or of a radiopaque dye.
- rope-length — a length of standard climbing rope, normally 50–60m
- sarcophagal — related to or depicted on sarcophagi
- shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.