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11-letter words containing o, r, p, h, a

  • planography — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • 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.
  • plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
  • plerophoria — full conviction
  • ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
  • pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
  • 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.
  • polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
  • polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • procephalic — of or relating to the head.
  • prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • prothalamia — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
  • prothalloid — resembling a prothallus
  • prothoracic — relating to an insect's prothorax
  • protopathic — noting or pertaining to a general, nondiscriminating responsiveness to pain or temperature stimuli (opposed to epicritic).
  • prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
  • pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
  • psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
  • psychograph — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
  • ptochocracy — government by the poor
  • pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
  • push around — to press upon or against (a thing) with force in order to move it away.
  • pyelography — the science or technique of making photographs of the kidneys, renal pelves, and ureters by means of x-rays, after the injection of an opaque solution or of a radiopaque dye.
  • pyrrhuloxia — a cardinallike grosbeak, Cardinalis (Pyrrhuloxia) sinuatus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a bill superficially resembling that of a parrot.
  • pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
  • quadraphony — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
  • radiography — the production of radiographs.
  • radiophonic — a radiotelephone.
  • razor-sharp — blade, etc.: dangerously sharp
  • renographic — of or pertaining to renography, using or produced by a renogram
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