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11-letter words containing n, e, p, h, r

  • paperhanger — a person whose job is covering walls with wallpaper.
  • paranephric — located near the kidney
  • paranephros — the adrenal gland
  • paraphernal — (sometimes used with a singular verb) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia.
  • paraphrenia — a type of severe paranoid schizophrenia
  • parchedness — the state or characteristic of being parched
  • parenchymal — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • parentheses — either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
  • parenthesis — either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
  • parenthetic — of, pertaining to, noting, or of the nature of a parenthesis: several unnecessary parenthetic remarks.
  • parishioner — one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.
  • partnership — the state or condition of being a partner; participation; association; joint interest.
  • pentahedron — a solid figure having five faces.
  • pentahydric — (especially of alcohols and phenols) pentahydroxy.
  • penthemimer — a unit in poetry consisting of two and a half metrical feet
  • perinephric — the capsule of connective tissue that envelops the kidney.
  • pershing ii — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
  • phalanstery — the buildings occupied by a phalanx. the community itself.
  • phanerogams — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
  • phanerozoic — the eon comprising the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras.
  • phentermine — a white, crystalline powder, phenyl-tertiary-butylamine hydrochloride, soluble in water and alcohol, that stimulates the central nervous system and elevates the systolic blood pressure: used chiefly in the treatment of obesity.
  • philanderer — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
  • photosensor — a photocell used to detect light.
  • phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
  • pigeonholer — someone who likes to pigeonhole people or things
  • pin-feather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
  • pipe wrench — a tool having two toothed jaws, one fixed and the other free to grip pipes and other tubular objects when the tool is turned in one direction only.
  • pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
  • plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
  • plane crash — an accident in which an aircraft hits land or water and is damaged or destroyed
  • 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.
  • plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
  • planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
  • platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
  • pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
  • pondicherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
  • port neches — a town in SE Texas.
  • powder horn — a powder flask made from the horn of a cow or ox.
  • power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
  • power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
  • pre-hearing — the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.
  • 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
  • prefinished — coated or treated before use or sale: prefinished wood.
  • prefreshman — before being a freshman
  • prehensible — able to be seized or grasped.
  • prehispanic — Spanish.
  • preluncheon — a light meal before lunch
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