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10-letter words containing p, a, h, o, u

  • mouthparts — Plural form of mouthpart.
  • musophobia — Fear of mice.
  • naturopath — a system or method of treating disease that employs no surgery or synthetic drugs but uses special diets, herbs, vitamins, massage, etc., to assist the natural healing processes.
  • nautophone — an electrically operated horn for giving fog warnings.
  • neuropathy — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
  • oesophagus — (anatomy) The tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach.
  • omophagous — the eating of raw food, especially raw meat.
  • peak hours — prime time, busiest period
  • photomural — a wall decoration consisting of a very large photograph or photographs.
  • play house — to pretend in child's play to be grown-up people with the customary household duties
  • ploughable — able to be ploughed
  • ploughgate — a measurement of ploughable land
  • ploughhead — the draught iron of a plough
  • ploughland — land that is ploughed for growing crops
  • pohutukawa — a myrtaceous New Zealand tree, Metrosideros excelsa, with red flowers and hard red wood
  • polyanthus — a hybrid primrose, Primula polyantha.
  • possum haw — a shrub, Ilex decidua, of the southeastern U.S., having leaves that are hairy on the upper surface and glossy, red fruit.
  • postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
  • prothallus — prothallium.
  • protohuman — of, relating to, or resembling extinct hominid populations that had some but not all the features of modern Homo sapiens.
  • punchboard — a small board containing holes filled with slips of paper printed with concealed numbers that are punched out by a player in an attempt to win a prize.
  • push about — to bully; keep telling (a person) what to do in a bossy manner
  • push along — to go away
  • soul patch — a small patch of facial hair below the centre of the lower lip and above the chin
  • sousaphone — a form of bass tuba, similar to the helicon, used in brass bands.
  • south pass — a mountain pass in SW Wyoming, cutting through the Rocky Mountains at the S of the Wind River range: part of the Oregon Trail.
  • splash out — If you splash out on something, especially on a luxury, you buy it even though it costs a lot of money.
  • sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
  • supermacho — extremely macho
  • tautophony — the repetition of a sound
  • tophaceous — a calcareous concretion formed in the soft tissue about a joint, in the pinna of the ear, etc., especially in gout; a gouty deposit.
  • touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
  • trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
  • typhaceous — belonging to the family of flowering plants Typhaceae
  • urographic — of or relating to urography
  • xiphopagus — either of a pair of Siamese twins joined at the lower sternum or xiphoid process
  • xiphosuran — any chelicerate arthropod of the subclass Xiphosura, including the horseshoe crabs and many extinct forms
  • zoophagous — carnivorous.
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