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11-letter words containing o, h, p

  • plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
  • pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
  • pleomorphic — of, relating to, or characterized by pleomorphism; polymorphous.
  • plerophoria — full conviction
  • plott hound — an American hound having a brindled coat, used especially in hunting bears and wild boars.
  • plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • plough into — If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
  • pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
  • pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
  • poached egg — A poached egg is an egg cooked gently in boiling water, without its shell.
  • pocketphone — a mobile phone
  • podophyllin — a resin, occurring as a light brown to greenish amorphous powder, obtained from podophyllum, and used in medicine chiefly as a cathartic and, locally, in the treatment of genital warts.
  • podophyllum — the dried rhizome of the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum, from which podophyllin is derived.
  • pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
  • polarograph — a device for analysing ions in solution by using an electrolytic cell with a very small cathode
  • pole hammer — a shafted weapon having a spiked hammer head.
  • polyalcohol — polyol.
  • polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
  • polychotomy — the division of something into multiple parts
  • polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours
  • polychromic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
  • polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
  • polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • polyhistory — the quality of a polyhistor
  • polyhydroxy — containing two or more hydroxyl groups.
  • polylithism — (programming)   A property of a data-object that can exist in many shapes and sizes, but not simultaneously; which distinguishes it from a union. It is often implemented as a set of classes (or structs) derived from a common base class (or with a common header, as in the case of structs), typically without any methods. It has been loosely described as polymorphic data.
  • polymorphic — polymorphism
  • polyphagous — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
  • polyphonist — a musical composer of or theorist in polyphony
  • polyphonous — Music. polyphonic composition; counterpoint.
  • polytechnic — of, relating to, or offering instruction in a variety of industrial arts, applied sciences, or technical subjects: a polytechnic institute.
  • polytrophic — (of certain bacteria) deriving nourishment from many organic substances.
  • pond hockey — ice hockey played on a frozen pond
  • 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).
  • pooh sticks — a children's game: each player throws a stick into a stream from one side of a bridge and the winner is the person whose stick emerges first on the other side
  • popish plot — an imaginary conspiracy against the crown of Great Britain on the part of English Roman Catholics, fabricated in 1678 by Titus Oates as a means of gaining power.
  • poppet head — the framework above a mining shaft that supports the winding mechanism
  • porkchopper — a labor official put on the union payroll as a reward for past loyalty or services.
  • porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
  • pornography — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
  • porphyratin — any of various complex compounds formed of metals and porphyrins
  • porphyritic — of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling porphyry, its texture, or its structure.
  • port arthur — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
  • port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
  • port neches — a town in SE Texas.
  • porterhouse — Also called porterhouse steak. a choice cut of beef from between the prime ribs and the sirloin.
  • porto velho — a state in W Brazil. 93,815 sq. mi. (242,980 sq. km). Capital: Pôrto Velho.
  • post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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