10-letter words containing p, a, t, h, i
- paperwhite — polyanthus (sense 2)
- parachutic — involving a parachute
- pararthria — incoherence or disorder of speech
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- parathesis — the placing of grammatically parallel words or phrases together; apposition
- parrotfish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
- party whip — whip (def 21).
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- pastorship — the position, authority, or office of a pastor.
- patchiness — characterized by or made up of patches.
- pathetical — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- pathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
- pathologic — of or relating to pathology.
- patriarchs — the male head of a family or tribal line.
- patriarchy — a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
- patronship — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
- perithecia — the fruiting body of ascomycetous fungi, typically a minute, more or less completely closed, globose or flask-shaped body enclosing the asci.
- peritricha — ciliate protozoans, of the order Peritrichida, in which the cilia are restricted to a spiral around the mouth
- petechiate — having or marked with petechiae.
- pettichaps — any of the warblers that belongs to the family Sylviinae
- phagocytic — any cell, as a macrophage, that ingests and destroys foreign particles, bacteria, and cell debris.
- phalangist — a member of a Lebanese Christian paramilitary organization founded in 1936 and originally based on similar ideas to the fascist Falange in Spain
- phaneritic — (of a rock) having the principal constituents in the form of crystals visible to the naked eye.
- phantasime — a person who is extremely imaginative and fanciful
- phantasize — to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by about): to fantasize about the ideal job.
- phantasmic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phantomish — resembling or reminiscent of a phantom
- pharmacist — a person licensed to prepare and dispense drugs and medicines; druggist; apothecary; pharmaceutical chemist.
- phatically — in a phatic manner
- phenacetin — a white, slightly water-soluble, crystalline solid, C 1 0 H 1 3 NO 2 , used in medicine chiefly as an agent for checking or preventing fever or for relieving pain: withdrawn because of unfavorable side effects.
- philatelic — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- philistian — an ancient country on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- philomathy — an enjoyment of and passion for learning new facts and acquiring new knowledge
- phlegmatic — not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.
- phonematic — phonemic.
- phonetical — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- phosphatic — of, relating to, or containing phosphates: phosphatic slag.
- photically — in a photic manner, by way of photic processes
- photoaging — damage to the skin, as wrinkles or discoloration, caused by prolonged exposure to sunlight.
- phototaxis — movement of an organism toward or away from a source of light.
- phragmites — any of several tall grasses of the genus Phragmites, having plumed heads, growing in marshy areas, especially the common reed P. australis (or P. communis).
- phthisical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected by phthisis.
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- pictograph — pictogram
- pina cloth — a fine, sheer fabric of pineapple-leaf fiber, used especially for lingerie.
- pinfeather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
- pitch lake — a deposit of natural asphalt in SW Trinidad, West Indies. 114 acres (47 hectares).