11-letter words containing p, a, t, h, e
- phosphatize — to treat with phosphates.
- phosphorate — Also, phosphorize. Chemistry. to combine or impregnate with phosphorus.
- photo essay — a group of photographs, usually with supplementary text, that conveys a unified story and is published as a book or as a feature in a magazine or newspaper.
- photoactive — the activation or control of a chemical, chemical reaction, or organism by light, as the activation of chlorophyll by sunlight during photosynthesis.
- photostated — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- phrenetical — of or relating to phrenitis
- phylacteric — of or relating to phylacteries
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
- picture hat — a woman's hat having a very broad, flexible brim, often decorated with feathers, flowers, or the like.
- pilot whale — a small, common whale, Globicephala sieboldii, of tropical and temperate seas, having a bulbous head.
- pin-feather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
- pinacotheca — a place where works of art are displayed or stored
- pinch pleat — a narrow pleat that is usually part of a series at the top of curtains.
- pirate ship — vessel sailed by sea robbers
- pitch plane — (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.
- pitch-faced — (of a stone) having all arrises in the same plane and the faces roughly dressed with a pick.
- plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
- planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
- plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
- platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
- plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
- plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
- pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
- pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
- poppet head — the framework above a mining shaft that supports the winding mechanism
- porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
- post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- pre-ethical — not governed by ethics, or not having an ethical or moral aspect
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
- prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- psammophyte — a plant that grows in sand or sandy soil.
- purehearted — (of a person) without malice, treachery, or evil intent; honest; sincere; guileless.
- purpleheart — the hard, purplish wood of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Peltogyne, of the legume family, used for making furniture.
- pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- retinopathy — any diseased condition of the retina, especially one that is noninflammatory.
- retrophilia — a strong liking for things from the past
- sales pitch — promotional talk
- scotch tape — clear adhesive tape
- scotch-tape — to fasten or mend with Scotch tape.
- senatorship — the office or position of a senator
- serotherapy — therapy by means of injections of a serum obtained especially from an immune animal.