10-letter words containing p, e, r, i, h, a
- europhilia — The love of Europe, Europeans, or European culture.
- europhobia — dislike for or hostility to Europe, Europeans, or the European Union
- fathership — The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
- flapperish — in the style of a flapper
- geographic — of or relating to geography.
- graphemics — the study of writing systems and of their relation to speech.
- graphitize — to convert into graphite.
- hair sheep — any variety of sheep growing hair instead of wool, yielding hides with a finer and tougher grain than those of wool sheep
- hair space — the thinnest metal space used to separate words, symbols, etc.
- hairpieces — Plural form of hairpiece.
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- harelipped — Usually Offensive. cleft lip.
- haruspices — Plural form of haruspex.
- headspring — the fountainhead or source of a stream.
- headstripe — A stripe of colored feathers on the head of a bird.
- heliograph — a device for signaling by means of a movable mirror that reflects beams of light, especially sunlight, to a distance.
- hemipteral — of or relating to a hemipterous insect
- hemipteran — hemipterous.
- hemitropal — hemitropous
- heparinize — Add heparin to (blood or a container about to be filled with blood) to prevent it from coagulating.
- heraldship — the office or position of a herald
- herb paris — a European plant, Paris quadrifolia, of the lily family, formerly used in medicine.
- hermatypic — reef-building coral.
- herpangina — an infectious disease, especially of children, characterized by a sudden occurrence of fever, loss of appetite, and throat ulcerations, caused by a Coxsackie virus.
- hierograph — sacred writing or characters
- hierophant — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
- hierophany — A physical manifestation of the holy or sacred, serving as a spiritual eidolon for emulation or worship.
- hit parade — a listing or category of popular songs ranked according to their popularity with listeners, usually as shown by sales of records.
- hospitaler — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
- hyperaemia — an abnormally large amount of blood in any part of the body.
- hyperalgia — an exaggerated sense of pain (opposed to hypalgesia).
- hyperaphia — abnormal sensitivity to touch.
- hyperbaric — (of an anesthetic) having a specific gravity greater than that of cerebrospinal fluid. Compare hypobaric.
- hyperbatic — relating to a hyperbaton
- hyperdulia — the veneration offered to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of creatures.
- hypergiant — (star) A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- hypermania — excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze: The country has a mania for soccer.
- hypermanic — pertaining to or affected by mania.
- hypermedia — hypertext
- hyperosmia — an abnormally acute sense of smell.
- hypertonia — increased rigidity, tension, and spasticity of the muscles.
- hypometria — Dysmetria in which the patient tends to undershoot the intended target.
- ideographs — an ideogram.
- ideography — the use of ideograms.
- interphase — the period of the cell cycle during which the nucleus is not undergoing division, typically occurring between mitotic or meiotic divisions. Also called interkinesis. Compare G1 phase, S phase, G2 phase.
- intraphase — (chemistry, physics) Within a phase.
- irish pale — pale2 (def 6).
- kaisership — the office of kaiser.
- leadership — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- lexigraphy — (uncountable) The representation of words in writing.