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

  • phantom stock — an employee bonus expressed as the cash value of a specified amount of company stock to be received at a future date, meant to create employee interest in raising stock prices without giving any stock away.
  • pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
  • pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
  • phelloplastic — an image or a representation that has been fashioned from cork
  • philanthropic — of, pertaining to, engaged in, or characterized by philanthropy; benevolent: a philanthropic foundation.
  • phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
  • phonocamptics — the branch of acoustics dealing with echoes
  • photoacoustic — optoacoustic
  • photoallergic — photosensitive.
  • photochemical — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light.
  • photocopiable — able or legally permitted to be photocopied
  • photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
  • photoreaction — a chemical reaction that involves or requires light.
  • photovoltaics — (used with a singular verb) a field of semiconductor technology involving the direct conversion of electromagnetic radiation as sunlight, into electricity.
  • phreatophytic — of, possessing the properties of, or relating to a phreatophyte
  • phthalic acid — Chemistry. any of three isomeric acids having the formula C 8 H 6 O 4 , especially the ortho isomer (orthophthalic acid) a colorless, crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes, medicine, and perfume.
  • physicalistic — of or relating to physicalism.
  • physicalities — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
  • phytochemical — Also called phytonutrient. any of various bioactive chemical compounds found in plants, as antioxidants, considered to be beneficial to human health.
  • 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.
  • plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • platycephalic — having a head whose cranial vault is broad or flat.
  • play catch up — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
  • play catch-up — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
  • polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
  • polycythaemia — an abnormal condition of the blood characterized by an increase in the number of red blood cells. It can occur as a primary disease of unknown cause (polycythaemia vera or erythraemia) or in association with respiratory or circulatory diseases
  • polytechnical — relating to a technical school
  • 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.
  • post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
  • postholocaust — following a holocaust
  • 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.
  • 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
  • presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
  • 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
  • psychasthenia — Psychiatry. (no longer in technical use) a neurosis marked by fear, anxiety, phobias, etc.
  • psychasthenic — a person who has psychasthenia
  • psychoanalyst — a person trained to practice psychoanalysis.
  • psychosomatic — of or relating to a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.
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