13-letter words containing o, r, p, h, a
- photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
- photoallergic — photosensitive.
- photographing — a picture produced by photography.
- photoreaction — a chemical reaction that involves or requires light.
- phototelegram — a telegram that is sent by means of phototelegraphy
- phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
- phreatophytic — of, possessing the properties of, or relating to a phreatophyte
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
- physiographic — the science of physical geography.
- physiotherapy — physical therapy.
- phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
- phytosanitary — of or relating to the health of plants
- piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
- pipiwharauroa — a Pacific migratory bird with a metallic green-gold plumage
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- plant hormone — an organic chemical, as auxin, produced by plant cells and functioning at various sites to regulate growth, turning, metabolic processes, etc.
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
- pneumatograph — pneumograph.
- pneumatophore — Botany. a specialized structure developed from the root in certain plants growing in swamps and marshes, serving as a respiratory organ.
- poker machine — a fruit machine
- polyarthritis — arthritis occurring in more than one joint.
- polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
- pontchartrain — Lake, a shallow extension of the Gulf of Mexico in SE Louisiana, N of New Orleans. 41 miles (66 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.
- porkpie (hat) — a man's soft hat with a round, flat crown
- port harcourt — a seaport in S Nigeria.
- posix threads — (programming) (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
- potato-masher — a kitchen implement used to crush or mash potatoes
- poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
- powder charge — propellant (def 2).
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- primary tooth — one of the temporary teeth of a mammal that are replaced by the permanent teeth.
- primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
- private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
- promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- prosopography — a study of a collection of persons or characters, especially their appearances, careers, personalities, etc., within a historical, literary, or social context.
- prosthodontia — the branch of dentistry that deals with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and other oral structures by artificial devices.
- protest march — public demonstration
- protochordate — any of the nonvertebrate chordates, as the tunicates, cephalochordates, and hemichordates.
- psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
- psychographic — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- psychotherapy — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds