13-letter words containing n, i, c, h, e
- pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- pennine chain — a range of hills in N England, extending from the S Midlands to the Cheviot Hills.
- penny pincher — a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
- penny-pincher — a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
- pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
- perching bird — any member of the avian order Passeriformes.
- perchlorinate — to combine with the maximum proportion of chlorine.
- perennibranch — any amphibian that retains its gills throughout its life
- perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
- phallocentric — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phencyclidine — an anesthetic drug, C 1 7 H 2 5 N, used as an animal tranquilizer: also widely used in several forms as an illicit hallucinogen.
- phenylic acid — phenol (def 1).
- phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
- photoreaction — a chemical reaction that involves or requires light.
- phycoerythrin — a red protein pigment occurring in red algae.
- phyllogenetic — of or relating to the development of leaves.
- phytocoenosis — the plants of a given area considered as a whole.
- piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
- pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
- pinch pennies — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
- pitcher plant — any of various insectivorous New World bog plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, and Heliamphora, having tubular or trumpet-shaped leaves containing a liquid in which insects are trapped.
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- poker machine — a fruit machine
- polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
- polytechnical — relating to a technical school
- porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- pre-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
- preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
- psychasthenia — Psychiatry. (no longer in technical use) a neurosis marked by fear, anxiety, phobias, etc.
- psychasthenic — a person who has psychasthenia
- psychogenesis — genesis of the psyche.
- psychogenetic — genesis of the psyche.
- psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
- psychotogenic — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
- puritan ethic — work ethic.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
- reading chair — a chair of the 18th century having an adjustable reading stand attached to the back and a crest rail extending forward on both sides to form armrests, designed to be sat on facing the back.
- receding chin — if somebody has a receding chin, it does not stick out and appears to slope backwards, giving the appearance of a weak jawline
- regime change — the transition from one political regime to another, esp through concerted political or military action
- reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
- resynchronize — to synchronize again
- retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- right section — a representation of an object as it would appear if cut by a plane perpendicular to its longest axis.
- rocking horse — a toy horse, as of wood, mounted on rockers or springs, on which children may ride; hobbyhorse.
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.