11-letter words containing p, a, t, h, e
- metanephroi — Plural form of metanephros.
- metanephros — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of higher vertebrates, becoming the permanent and functional kidney.
- metaphorist — a creator or user of metaphors
- metaphorize — To describe something using metaphors.
- metaphrased — Translated literally.
- metaphrases — Plural form of metaphrase.
- metaphrasis — a metaphrase
- metaphrasts — Plural form of metaphrast.
- metaphysics — metaphysics.
- metapsychic — relating to metapsychics
- metatrophic — requiring dead organic matter for food.
- middle path — the conduct of life by a religious person in such a way as to avoid the extremes of luxury and asceticism.
- misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- monotherapy — (medicine) A therapy which is administered by itself.
- myelopathic — any disorder of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.
- naphthacene — an explosive solid compound, C 1 8 H 1 2 , derived from anthracene and coal tar: used for detonating high explosives, as TNT.
- naphthalene — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble hydrocarbon, C 1 0 H 8 , usually obtained from coal tar: used in making dyes, as a moth repellant, etc.
- naphthaline — Naphthalene.
- naphthalize — to mix or saturate with naphtha.
- neanthropic — of or relating to modern forms of humans as compared with extinct species of the genus Homo.
- nematomorph — any member of the phylum Nematomorpha, having a threadlike body, comprising the horsehair worms.
- nematophore — (within the coenosarc of certain colonial hydrozoans) a small specialized tentacle-like polyp having nematocysts
- nephritical — Alternative form of nephritic.
- nephropathy — any disease of the kidney.
- neuropathic — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
- nonemphatic — lacking emphasis, not emphatic
- nonpathogen — An organism that is not a pathogen.
- off the map — no longer important or in existence (esp in the phrase wipe off the map)
- ommatophore — a tentacle or movable stalk bearing an eye, as in certain snails.
- open-hearth — noting, pertaining to, or produced by the open-hearth process.
- openhearted — Frank and candid.
- ophicalcite — a type of marble containing serpentine and calcite
- orthopaedic — of or relating to orthopedics.
- orthopteran — orthopterous.
- osteography — The scientific description of bones; osteology.
- osteopathic — Of or pertaining to osteopathy or osteopathic medicine.
- ostreophage — someone who loves or eats oysters
- ostreophagy — the consumption of oysters
- paedotrophy — the art of raising children
- paint horse — paint (def 6).
- paleolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the cultures of the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs, or early phase of the Stone Age, which appeared first in Africa and are marked by the steady development of stone tools and later antler and bone artifacts, engravings on bone and stone, sculpted figures, and paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters: usually divided into three periods (Lower Paleolithic, c2,000,000–c200,000 b.c., Middle Paleolithic, c150,000–c40,000 b.c., Upper Paleolithic, c40,000–c10,000 b.c.)
- pamphleteer — a writer or publisher of pamphlets, especially on controversial issues.
- pamphletize — to write a pamphlet.
- pan-atheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- panathenaea — a festival in honor of the goddess Athena, celebrated yearly in ancient Athens, with each fourth year reserved for greater pomp, marked by contests, as in athletics and music, and highlighted by a solemn procession to the Acropolis bearing a peplos embroidered for the goddess.
- panathenaia — a festival in honor of the goddess Athena, celebrated yearly in ancient Athens, with each fourth year reserved for greater pomp, marked by contests, as in athletics and music, and highlighted by a solemn procession to the Acropolis bearing a peplos embroidered for the goddess.
- panathenaic — of or relating to a Panathenaea, a festival in honor of the goddess Athena.
- panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
- panel thief — a thief who secretly robs the customers in a panel house.
- panentheism — the belief that God is a part of the universe as well as transcending it