10-letter words containing h, p, u
- murphy bed — a bed constructed so that it can be folded or swung into a closet.
- museophile — One who loves museums.
- mushy peas — dried peas that have been soaked, boiled and mashed - often eaten with fish and chips
- musophobia — Fear of mice.
- muttonchop — A cut of sheep's meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- nalbuphine — a potent synthetic narcotic, C 2 1 H 2 7 NO 4 , used as an analgesic for moderate to severe pain.
- naturopath — a system or method of treating disease that employs no surgery or synthetic drugs but uses special diets, herbs, vitamins, massage, etc., to assist the natural healing processes.
- nautophone — an electrically operated horn for giving fog warnings.
- nephridium — the excretory organ of many invertebrates, consisting of a tubule with one end opening into the body cavity and the other opening into a pore at the body surface.
- neuropathy — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
- neutrophil — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- octopusher — a person who plays octopush
- oesophagus — (anatomy) The tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach.
- omophagous — the eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
- open house — a party or reception during which anyone who wishes may visit to share in a celebration, meet a special guest, etc.
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- parachutic — involving a parachute
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- pay cheque — Your pay cheque is a piece of paper that your employer gives you as your wages or salary, and which you can then cash at a bank. You can also use pay cheque as a way of referring to your wages or salary.
- peak hours — prime time, busiest period
- pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
- pen pusher — pencil pusher.
- pen-pusher — pencil pusher.
- pentateuch — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
- pepperbush — sweet pepperbush.
- pest house — a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.
- phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
- phono plug — a type of coaxial connector, used esp in audio equipment
- phosphorus — Chemistry. a solid, nonmetallic element existing in at least three allotropic forms, one that is yellow, poisonous, flammable, and luminous in the dark, one that is red, less poisonous, and less flammable, and another that is black, insoluble in most solvents, and the least flammable. The element is used in forming smoke screens, its compounds are used in matches and phosphate fertilizers, and it is a necessary constituent of plant and animal life in bones, nerves, and embryos. Symbol: P; atomic weight: 30.974; atomic number: 15; specific gravity: (yellow) 1.82 at 20°C, (red) 2.20 at 20°C, (black) 2.25–2.69 at 20°C.
- phosphuret — a phosphate
- photomural — a wall decoration consisting of a very large photograph or photographs.
- phototonus — the normal condition of sensitiveness to light in organisms or their organs.
- phyllodium — phyllode.
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- pilothouse — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- pincushion — a small cushion into which pins are stuck until needed.
- pious hope — a wish or desire that is unlikely to be fulfilled
- pitcherful — the amount held by a pitcher.
- pittsburgh — a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers that forms the Ohio River: steel industry.
- play house — to pretend in child's play to be grown-up people with the customary household duties
- play-lunch — a schoolchild's mid-morning snack
- ploughable — able to be ploughed
- ploughgate — a measurement of ploughable land
- ploughhead — the draught iron of a plough
- ploughland — land that is ploughed for growing crops
- ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
- plume moth — one of a family (Pterophoridae) of slender-bodied micro moths with narrow wings, each usually divided into two, three, or four "plumes". The type is the white Pterophorus pentadactylus
- plus sight — a backsight used in leveling.
- plushiness — the condition of being plush
- pohutukawa — a myrtaceous New Zealand tree, Metrosideros excelsa, with red flowers and hard red wood