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

  • 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.
  • pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
  • pharyngoscopy — an examination by means of a pharyngoscope.
  • philanthropic — of, pertaining to, engaged in, or characterized by philanthropy; benevolent: a philanthropic foundation.
  • phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
  • photoallergic — photosensitive.
  • photoreaction — a chemical reaction that involves or requires light.
  • phreatophytic — of, possessing the properties of, or relating to a phreatophyte
  • physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
  • physiographic — the science of physical geography.
  • piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
  • picardy third — a major third in the final tonic chord of a composition written in a minor key.
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • pitcher plant — any of various insectivorous New World bog plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, and Heliamphora, having tubular or trumpet-shaped leaves containing a liquid in which insects are trapped.
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • 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.
  • port harcourt — a seaport in S Nigeria.
  • powder charge — propellant (def 2).
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • 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-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
  • 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.
  • preacher curl — a weightlifting exercise for the biceps in which a barbell is lifted by flexing the elbows, with the upper arms resting on an angled bench
  • preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
  • preattachment — an act of attaching or the state of being attached.
  • press attaché — the official in an embassy who has the job of liaising with the media
  • press charges — make formal accusation
  • presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
  • 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.
  • principalship — first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
  • privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
  • promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
  • prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • 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.
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
  • puritan ethic — work ethic.
  • pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
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