11-letter words containing h, u
- panel house — a brothel having rooms with secret entrances, as sliding panels, for admitting panel thieves.
- parachuting — descent using parachute
- parachutist — sb who makes parachute jumps
- parashurama — a Rama and avatar of Vishnu who rid the earth of Kshatriyas.
- parish pump — of only local interest; parochial
- passthrough — a windowlike opening, as one for passing food or dishes between a kitchen and a dining area.
- pasticheuse — a woman who makes or composes a pastiche.
- patch quilt — a patchwork quilt
- pate a chou — French Cookery. cream puff paste.
- pedagoguish — resembling or reminiscent of a pedagogue
- peng dehuai — 1898–1974, Chinese Communist military leader: defense minister 1954–59.
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- perithecium — the fruiting body of ascomycetous fungi, typically a minute, more or less completely closed, globose or flask-shaped body enclosing the asci.
- perithelium — the connective tissue surrounding certain small vessels, as capillaries.
- persulphate — a sulphuric acid salt of a base peroxide
- phd student — a person who is studying for a PhD
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- phlyctenule — a small phlyctena
- phosphonium — the positively charged group PH 4 + .
- phosphorous — containing trivalent phosphorus.
- photo album — bound book for photos
- photo-mount — a heavy paper or board suitable for mounting photographs.
- photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
- physiologus — an ancient Greek book containing stories and tales with moral content about real and mythical animals
- pickelhaube — a spiked German helmet from the 19th and 20th centuries
- picture hat — a woman's hat having a very broad, flexible brim, often decorated with feathers, flowers, or the like.
- pill pusher — a medical doctor, especially one who too readily prescribes medication.
- pill-pusher — a medical doctor, especially one who too readily prescribes medication.
- pilot house — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
- plott hound — an American hound having a brindled coat, used especially in hunting bears and wild boars.
- 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
- plutarchian — of or relating to the biographer Plutarch.
- pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
- pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
- podophyllum — the dried rhizome of the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum, from which podophyllin is derived.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- polyphagous — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
- polyphonous — Music. polyphonic composition; counterpoint.
- port arthur — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
- port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
- porterhouse — Also called porterhouse steak. a choice cut of beef from between the prime ribs and the sirloin.
- potash alum — alum1 (def 1).
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- preluncheon — a light meal before lunch