10-letter words containing l, h, s
- oughtlings — at all
- out-hustle — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
- outlandish — freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
- overlavish — expended, bestowed, or occurring in profusion: lavish spending.
- overrashly — in an overrash manner
- overslaugh — to pass over or disregard (a person) by giving a promotion, position, etc., to another instead.
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- pale horse — a representation of Death, as in literature or the Bible.
- paschal ii — (Ranieri) died 1118, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1099–1118.
- pebbledash — to cover with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
- penn hills — a town in W Pennsylvania.
- perishable — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
- phalangist — a member of a Lebanese Christian paramilitary organization founded in 1936 and originally based on similar ideas to the fascist Falange in Spain
- phallicism — worship of the phallus, especially as symbolic of power or of the generative principle of nature.
- phantasmal — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- 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).
- phenoplast — phenolic resin.
- philippics — any of the orations delivered by Demosthenes, the Athenian orator, in the 4th century b.c., against Philip, king of Macedon.
- philistian — an ancient country on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- philistine — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
- philosophe — any of the popular French intellectuals or social philosophers of the 18th century, as Diderot, Rousseau, or Voltaire.
- philosophy — the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
- phlegmasia — a condition characterized by swelling, pain, and redness
- phlogistic — Pathology. inflammatory.
- phlogiston — a nonexistent chemical that, prior to the discovery of oxygen, was thought to be released during combustion.
- pholidosis — the layout or disposition of the scales of reptiles
- phosphoryl — a radical chemical consisting of phosphorus and oxygen, represented by the symbol pO
- photocells — a solid-state device that converts light into electrical energy by producing a voltage, as in a photovoltaic cell, or uses light to regulate the flow of current, as in a photoconductive cell: used in automatic control systems for doors, lighting, etc.
- photoflash — flashbulb.
- photolyses — the chemical decomposition of materials under the influence of light.
- photolysis — the chemical decomposition of materials under the influence of light.
- phraseless — lacking in a phrase or phrases
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- phthisical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected by phthisis.
- physically — relating to the body or its appearance: He is not physically attractive.
- physiology — the branch of biology dealing with the functions and activities of living organisms and their parts, including all physical and chemical processes.
- phytoplasm — protoplasm of a plant or plants.
- pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
- pilot fish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pilot-fish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pilothouse — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- plate shop — a shop for cold-forming metal plates.
- play house — to pretend in child's play to be grown-up people with the customary household duties
- playschool — preschool, nursery school
- ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough
- plus sight — a backsight used in leveling.
- plushiness — the condition of being plush
- pokerishly — in a pokerish manner
- pole horse — a horse harnessed to the tongue of a vehicle; poler; wheeler.
- pole house — a timber house built on a steep section and supported by heavy debarked logs in long piles