11-letter words containing o, h, p
- post-holder — a person who has a particular job or position
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- postholiday — occurring after a holiday
- posttyphoid — occurring as a sequela of typhoid fever.
- potash alum — alum1 (def 1).
- potato chip — a thin slice of potato fried until crisp and usually salted.
- potato moth — a gelechiid moth, Phthorimaea operculella, the larvae of which feed on the leaves and bore into the tubers of potatoes and other solanaceous plants.
- potshotting — the act of taking potshots
- potty-chair — a small chair with an open seat over a removable pot, for use by a child during toilet training.
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- powder horn — a powder flask made from the horn of a cow or ox.
- power ahead — If an economy or company powers ahead, it becomes stronger and more successful.
- 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.
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- prajadhipok — 1893–1941, king of Siam 1925–35.
- pre-holiday — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- pre-homeric — of, relating to, or suggestive of Homer or his poetry.
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- preluncheon — a light meal before lunch
- prep school — preparatory school.
- preschooler — a child below the official school starting age, usually a child up to age five.
- priest-hole — a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
- prizeworthy — deserving or qualified for a prize: a prizeworthy performance.
- pro-british — of or relating to Great Britain or its inhabitants.
- pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
- pro-choicer — a person who supports the right of a woman to have an abortion
- procephalic — of or relating to the head.
- prochlorite — a dark green member of the chlorite group, usually foliated.
- prochronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date earlier than the actual one; prolepsis.
- proctorship — a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prohibition — the act of prohibiting.
- prohibitive — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- prohibitory — prohibitive.
- proof sheet — a printer's proof.
- prophesying — to foretell or predict.
- prophethood — a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
- prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- prophylaxis — Medicine/Medical. the preventing of disease. the prevention of a specific disease, as by studying the biological behavior, transmission, etc., of its causative agent and applying a series of measures against it.
- propter hoc — because of this.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- prosobranch — a gastropod mollusc of the subclass Prosobranchia, which includes conches, limpets, abalones, and numerous aquatic and terrestrial snails
- prosthetics — an artificial body part; a prosthesis: Hundreds of amputees volunteered to test the new prosthetics.
- prosthetist — a person skilled in making or fitting prosthetic devices.
- prothalamia — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- prothalloid — resembling a prothallus