13-letter words containing n, o, h, a, e
- phenobarbital — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
- phenomenalism — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
- phenomenality — highly extraordinary or prodigious; exceptional: phenomenal speed.
- phenomenalize — to regard or interpret as a phenomenon.
- phenothiazine — Chemistry. a grayish-green to greenish-yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 1 2 H 9 NS, used chiefly as an insecticide and vermifuge, and in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals.
- 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.
- phone-tapping — Phone-tapping is the activity of listening secretly to someone's phone conversations using special electronic equipment. In most cases phone-tapping is illegal.
- phony disease — a disease of peaches, characterized by dwarfing, dark-green leaves, premature leafing and flowering, and the production of reduced numbers of small fruit, caused by a virus, Nanus mirabilis.
- phony-baloney — nonsense; baloney.
- phosphokinase — an increase in the amount of creatine phosphokinase that is released into the bloodstream when a muscle becomes injured
- photogelatine — relating to photographic processes in which gelatine is used in receiving or transferring prints
- photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
- photoreaction — a chemical reaction that involves or requires light.
- photosynthate — a compound formed by photosynthesis.
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- phytopathogen — an organism that causes disease in plants
- phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
- piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- plant hormone — an organic chemical, as auxin, produced by plant cells and functioning at various sites to regulate growth, turning, metabolic processes, etc.
- pneumatograph — pneumograph.
- pneumatophore — Botany. a specialized structure developed from the root in certain plants growing in swamps and marshes, serving as a respiratory organ.
- pointy-headed — stupid; idiotic.
- poker machine — a fruit machine
- polytechnical — relating to a technical school
- polythene bag — a bag made of polythene, esp one used to store or protect food or household articles
- pomme blanche — breadroot.
- pompano beach — a city in SE Florida.
- post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- rain or shine — regardless of the weather or circumstances; in any event: The concert will be held, rain or shine. He's always a reliable friend, rain or shine.
- rapprochement — an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations: a rapprochement reached between warring factions.
- reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
- redondo beach — a city in SW California.
- refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
- 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.
- rhodesian man — an extinct Pleistocene human whose cranial remains were found at Kabwe, in Zambia: formerly in some classifications Homo rhodesiensis but now considered archaic Homo sapiens.
- rocking shear — a shear having a curved blade that cuts with a rocking motion.
- rose of china — China rose (def 2).
- scalenohedral — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- scalenohedron — a hemihedral crystal form of 8 or 12 faces, each face being a scalene triangle.
- schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
- scholarliness — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae