10-letter words containing i, h, e, a
- on the air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- open chain — a series of atoms linked in a chain not joined together at its ends, and so represented in its structural formula.
- ophiolater — a person who worships snakes
- orthocaine — a methyl ester used for local anaesthesia
- orthorexia — (psychology) A fixation with healthy or righteous eating.
- ouananiche — A salmon of landlocked populations living in lakes in Labrador and Newfoundland.
- outachieve — (transitive) To surpass in achievement; to achieve more than.
- overlavish — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- paedophile — an adult who is sexually attracted to young children.
- page chair — a chair of the 18th century having deep wings continued to form an arch over the seat.
- palaeolith — a stone tool dating to the Palaeolithic
- panatheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- pantheonic — a domed circular temple at Rome, erected a.d. 120–124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d.
- pantherine — resembling a panther in manner or appearance
- paper-thin — extremely thin: a paper-thin razor blade.
- paperwhite — polyanthus (sense 2)
- parathesis — the placing of grammatically parallel words or phrases together; apposition
- parischane — a parish
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- patchiness — characterized by or made up of patches.
- pathetical — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- pathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
- peacherino — peach1 (def 4).
- peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- pedophilia — sexual desire in an adult for a child.
- penmanship — the art of handwriting; the use of the pen in writing.
- pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
- perihelial — the point in the orbit of a planet or comet at which it is nearest to the sun.
- peripheral — pertaining to, situated in, or constituting the periphery: peripheral resistance on the outskirts of the battle area.
- periphrase — the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
- perishable — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
- perithecia — the fruiting body of ascomycetous fungi, typically a minute, more or less completely closed, globose or flask-shaped body enclosing the asci.
- peritricha — ciliate protozoans, of the order Peritrichida, in which the cilia are restricted to a spiral around the mouth
- petechiate — having or marked with petechiae.
- pettichaps — any of the warblers that belongs to the family Sylviinae
- phaelonion — an item of religious clothing, worn in the Eastern Church, and taking the form of a garment without sleeves for the upper body, rather like a chasuble
- phagedenic — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- phaneritic — (of a rock) having the principal constituents in the form of crystals visible to the naked eye.
- phantasime — a person who is extremely imaginative and fanciful
- phantasize — to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by about): to fantasize about the ideal job.
- phenacaine — a compound, C 1 8 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , usually used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local anesthetic for the eye.
- phenacetin — a white, slightly water-soluble, crystalline solid, C 1 0 H 1 3 NO 2 , used in medicine chiefly as an agent for checking or preventing fever or for relieving pain: withdrawn because of unfavorable side effects.
- philatelic — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- philoxenia — an act of hospitableness and welcome
- phlegmasia — a condition characterized by swelling, pain, and redness
- phlegmatic — not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.
- phocomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
- phoenician — a native or inhabitant of Phoenicia.