10-letter words containing h, y, a
- pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
- paddywhack — Informal. a spanking.
- pantophagy — the consumption of all types of food
- paraphyses — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
- paraphysis — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- parchingly — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- parenchyma — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- paronychia — inflammation of the folds of skin bordering a nail of a finger or toe, usually characterized by infection and pus formation; felon.
- party whip — whip (def 21).
- pasigraphy — a system of writing intelligible to persons of all languages; a universal language
- pathognomy — the study of the symptoms or characteristics of a disease; diagnosis.
- patriarchy — a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
- 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.
- pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
- petty cash — funds kept for minor expenses
- phagocytic — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- phantastry — a display of flamboyance or extravagance
- pharyngeal — of, relating to, or situated near the pharynx.
- phatically — in a phatic manner
- pheasantry — a place where pheasants are bred or are kept together
- philomathy — an enjoyment of and passion for learning new facts and acquiring new knowledge
- phloem ray — a vascular ray extending into or located entirely within the secondary phloem.
- phoney war — A phoney war is when two opposing groups are openly hostile towards each other, as if they were at war, but there is no real fighting.
- phonically — of or relating to speech sounds.
- phossy jaw — gangrenous condition of the lower jawbone
- photically — in a photic manner, by way of photic processes
- photonasty — a nastic movement in response to a change in light intensity
- photopathy — movement of an organism in response to the intensity of light, especially away from the source of light.
- phylactery — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- phylloclad — cladophyll
- phyllotaxy — the arrangement of leaves on a stem or axis.
- phylloxera — any of several plant lice of the genus Phylloxera, especially P. vitifoliae (grape phylloxera) which attacks the leaves and roots of grapevines.
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- physically — relating to the body or its appearance: He is not physically attractive.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- phytoplasm — protoplasm of a plant or plants.
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- play havoc — to cause a great deal of damage, distress, or confusion (to)
- play hooky — play truant, be absent from school
- 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
- playschool — preschool, nursery school
- playwright — a writer of plays; dramatist.
- polyanthus — a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.
- polyarchic — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
- polychaete — any annelid of the class Polychaeta, having unsegmented swimming appendages with many setae or bristles.
- polygraphy — a code
- polyhalite — a type or pink or red mineral
- polyhedral — of, relating to, or having the shape of a polyhedron.