10-letter words containing p, h, a, e, c
- oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.
- pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
- pack-horse — a horse used for carrying goods, freight, supplies, etc.
- packthread — a strong thread or twine for sewing or tying up packages.
- page chair — a chair of the 18th century having deep wings continued to form an arch over the seat.
- palm beach — a town in SE Florida: seaside winter resort.
- pantheonic — a domed circular temple at Rome, erected a.d. 120–124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d.
- parenchyma — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- parischane — a parish
- park bench — a long seat made of wood or metal that two or more people can sit on, placed in a public place or open space in a town
- pas marche — a marching step.
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- patch reef — an isolated coral growth forming a small platform in a lagoon, barrier reef, or atoll.
- patch test — Medicine/Medical. a test for suspected allergy by application to the skin of a patch impregnated with an allergen: allergic reaction is indicated by redness at the site of application.
- patchcocke — a clown
- 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.
- pathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
- pay cheque — Your pay cheque is a piece of paper that your employer gives you as your wages or salary, and which you can then cash at a bank. You can also use pay cheque as a way of referring to your wages or salary.
- pe teacher — a teacher of Physical Education
- peach palm — a palm, Bactris gasipaes, having very spiny, tall stems, widely cultivated in the New World tropics for its edible fruit and palm hearts.
- peach-blow — a delicate purplish pink.
- peacherino — peach1 (def 4).
- peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
- pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
- pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
- pentateuch — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
- 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.
- petrarchan — of, relating to, or characteristic of the works of Petrarch.
- pettichaps — any of the warblers that belongs to the family Sylviinae
- petty cash — funds kept for minor expenses
- ph balance — a method of expressing the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a solution
- phagedenic — a severe, destructive, eroding ulcer.
- phaneritic — (of a rock) having the principal constituents in the form of crystals visible to the naked eye.
- phenacaine — a compound, C 1 8 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , usually used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local anesthetic for the eye.
- 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.
- phlegmatic — not easily excited to action or display of emotion; apathetic; sluggish.
- phocomelia — a usually congenital deformity of the extremities in which the limbs are abnormally short.
- phoenician — a native or inhabitant of Phoenicia.
- phone call — telephone call
- phone card — calling card (def 3).
- phone-jack — to steal the mobile phone from (a person)
- phonematic — phonemic.
- phonetical — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- phrenesiac — hypochondriacal
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied