10-letter words containing p, a, h, n, g
- lagerphone — (Australia) A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument. (From 1952.).
- lightplane — a lightweight passenger airplane with relatively limited performance capability.
- malpighian — Marcello [mahr-chel-law] /mɑrˈtʃɛl lɔ/ (Show IPA), 1628–94, Italian anatomist.
- megaphoned — Simple past tense and past participle of megaphone.
- megaphones — Plural form of megaphone.
- megaphonic — Of, or pertaining to, a megaphone.
- misshaping — Present participle of misshape.
- monographs — Plural form of monograph.
- monography — A monograph.
- monophagia — the eating of or craving for only one kind of food.
- necrophage — An organism that eats dead or decaying flesh.
- necrophagy — The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh.
- nephograph — an instrument for photographing clouds
- nephralgia — kidney pain.
- nightscape — a scene viewed at night, especially as represented in art.
- noctograph — a frame used to aid the blind in writing.
- nomographs — Plural form of nomograph.
- nomography — the art of or a treatise on drawing up laws.
- nosography — the systematic description of diseases.
- orphanages — Plural form of orphanage.
- pantagraph — pantograph (def 1).
- pantograph — Also, pantagraph. an instrument for the mechanical copying of plans, diagrams, etc., on any desired scale.
- pantophagy — the consumption of all types of food
- parchingly — to make extremely, excessively, or completely dry, as heat, sun, and wind do.
- pathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
- pathognomy — the study of the symptoms or characteristics of a disease; diagnosis.
- phagedaena — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- phagedenic — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- phagomania — a compulsive desire to eat
- phalangeal — of or relating to a phalanx.
- phalangist — a member of a Lebanese Christian paramilitary organization founded in 1936 and originally based on similar ideas to the fascist Falange in Spain
- phanerogam — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- pharyngeal — of, relating to, or situated near the pharynx.
- phonograph — any sound-reproducing machine using records in the form of cylinders or discs.
- phosphagen — a high-energy phosphoric ester that serves as a reservoir of phosphate-bond energy, as phosphocreatine in vertebrates and phosphoarginine in invertebrates.
- photoaging — damage to the skin, as wrinkles or discoloration, caused by prolonged exposure to sunlight.
- planigraph — an x-ray photograph in which a given plane of the body is well defined and those above and below it purposely out of focus.
- planograph — (formerly) to print from a flat surface.
- ploughland — land that is ploughed for growing crops
- preachings — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- prognathic — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- purchasing — buying
- push along — to go away
- rangership — the office or position of a ranger
- renography — x-ray examination of the kidney following injection of a radiopaque substance.
- rephrasing — to phrase again or differently: He rephrased the statement to give it less formality.
- shaganappi — thongs, straps, or lacings made of rawhide.
- sharpening — the act of making the edge of something very thin or of making its end pointed
- siphonogam — a plant that is pollinated by siphonogamy
- sonography — the medical diagnostic imaging technique used to see internal organs, muscles, etc