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13-letter words containing p, a, m, h, r

  • morphographer — a person who scientifically describes form
  • morphological — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
  • musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
  • mythographies — Plural form of mythography.
  • new hampshire — a state in the NE United States. 9304 sq. mi. (24,100 sq. km). Capital: Concord. Abbreviation: NH (for use with zip code), N.H.
  • non-ephemeral — lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory: the ephemeral joys of childhood.
  • normocephalic — Having a normal sized head; neither macrocephalic nor microcephalic; mesocephalic.
  • overemphasise — (British) alternative spelling of overemphasize.
  • overemphasize — to emphasize excessively.
  • paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
  • panharmonicon — a mechanical instrument that imitates orchestral sounds
  • parental home — a school for problem children.
  • parma heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • party machine — the internal organization of a political party, which decides its policies and directs its activities
  • patent hammer — a hammer for dressing stone, having a head with two faces formed of a number of broad, thin chisels bolted side by side.
  • pathomorphism — abnormal morphology.
  • penthemimeral — (of a caesura) occurring after the first penthemimer of a poetic line, i.e. in the middle of the third foot
  • perilymphatic — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
  • peripheralism — the explanation of psychological events emphasizing peripheral human functions, as those of skeletal muscles or the sex organs, rather than cognition or other processes of the central nervous system.
  • petrochemical — a chemical substance obtained from petroleum or natural gas, as gasoline, kerosene, or petrolatum.
  • phalansterism — a model of society in which members of a community live in the same space and share common belongings
  • phantasmagory — phantasmagoria.
  • pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
  • pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
  • pharmacologic — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • pharmacopoeia — a book published usually under the jurisdiction of the government and containing a list of drugs, their formulas, methods for making medicinal preparations, requirements and tests for their strength and purity, and other related information.
  • pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
  • phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
  • phenmetrazine — a compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO, used chiefly to control the appetite in the treatment of obesity.
  • phototelegram — a telegram that is sent by means of phototelegraphy
  • phrase marker — (in generative grammar) a representation of the constituent structure of a sentence, using a tree diagram or labeled bracketing.
  • 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
  • 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
  • polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
  • potato-masher — a kitchen implement used to crush or mash potatoes
  • pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
  • pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
  • preattachment — an act of attaching or the state of being attached.
  • primary cache — (hardware, architecture)   (L1 cache, level one cache) A small, fast cache memory inside or close to the CPU chip. For example, an Intel 80486 has an eight-kilobyte on-chip cache, and most Pentiums have a 16-KB on-chip level one cache that consists of an 8-KB instruction cache and an 8-KB data cache. The larger, slower secondary cache is normally connected to the CPU via its external bus.
  • 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.
  • privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
  • promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
  • protest march — public demonstration
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