11-letter words containing i, h, e, a
- physicalise — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- physicalize — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
- 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.
- pigeon hawk — merlin.
- pilot whale — a small, common whale, Globicephala sieboldii, of tropical and temperate seas, having a bulbous head.
- pin-feather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
- pinacotheca — a place where works of art are displayed or stored
- pinch pleat — a narrow pleat that is usually part of a series at the top of curtains.
- pirate ship — vessel sailed by sea robbers
- pitch plane — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- pitch-faced — (of a stone) having all arrises in the same plane and the faces roughly dressed with a pick.
- planisphere — a map of half or more of the celestial sphere with a device for indicating the part of a given location visible at a given time.
- platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
- plerophoria — full conviction
- pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
- porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
- post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
- power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- pre-ethical — not governed by ethics, or not having an ethical or moral aspect
- pre-hearing — the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.
- pre-holiday — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- pre-spanish — of or relating to Spain, its people, or their language.
- preachiness — the quality of being preachy; a preachy style, esp a tedious one
- preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- preemphasis — a process of increasing the amplitude of certain frequencies relative to others in a signal in order to help them override noise, complemented by deemphasis before final reproduction of the signal being received.
- prehispanic — Spanish.
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
- procephalic — of or relating to the head.
- prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- psammophile — a plant or animal that thrives in sand
- psychedelia — the realm or artifacts of psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like.
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
- publishable — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
- pumpkinhead — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- rabbit hole — opening of a rabbit's burrow
- radiothermy — therapy that utilizes the heat from a shortwave radio apparatus or diathermy machine.
- radnorshire — a historic county in Powys, in E Wales.
- rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
- range light — one of a pattern of navigation lights, usually fixed ashore, used by vessels for manoeuvring in narrow channels at night
- rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
- rapid chess — a game of chess played within a fixed amount of time, usually 30 minutes per player for all moves.
- re-emphasis — special stress laid upon, or importance attached to, anything: The president's statement gave emphasis to the budgetary crisis.