12-letter words containing p, h, a, g, i
- nonhappening — an event that fails to occur
- oesophagitis — Alternative spelling of esophagitis.
- oligophagous — (especially of insects) eating only a few types of food.
- oligophrenia — less than normal mental development.
- onychophagia — the practice of biting one's nails, especially when done habitually and as a symptom of emotional disturbance.
- ophiophagous — eating snakes.
- opisthograph — a manuscript, parchment, or book having writing on both sides of the leaves.
- orographical — relating to the study of mountains
- orthographic — of or relating to orthography.
- oscillograph — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- paki-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked physical assaults upon Pakistani immigrants or people of Pakistani descent
- panning shot — pan3 (def 6).
- pantophagist — an omnivore
- paper-weight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
- paperhanging — the activity or business of a paperhanger.
- paragnathism — the condition or fact of having upper and lower jaws of equal length
- paraphrasing — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
- parting shot — a threat, insult, condemnation, sarcastic retort, or the like, uttered upon leaving.
- passing shot — a shot played to one side of and beyond the reach of an opponent coming to or stationed at the net.
- patent right — the exclusive right granted by a patent, as on an invention.
- pathbreaking — pertaining to blazing a trail or path.
- pathobiology — pathology with emphasis on the biological aspects of disease
- pathogenesis — the production and development of disease.
- pathogenetic — the production and development of disease.
- pathological — of or relating to pathology.
- phagocytosis — Physiology. the ingestion of a smaller cell or cell fragment, a microorganism, or foreign particles by means of the local infolding of a cell's membrane and the protrusion of its cytoplasm around the fold until the material has been surrounded and engulfed by closure of the membrane and formation of a vacuole: characteristic of amebas and some types of white blood cells.
- phagocytotic — relating to phagocytosis
- phanerogamic — any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
- phengophobia — an abnormal dread or terror of natural light
- philandering — (of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
- phlegmagogic — a medication that is intended to dislodge and evacuate mucus from the respiratory system
- phonographic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a phonograph.
- phonological — relating to study of speech sounds
- photo-ageing — premature wrinkling of the skin caused by overexposure to sunlight
- photogelatin — pertaining to any photographic process in which gelatin is used to receive or transfer a print.
- photographic — of or relating to photography.
- phrasemaking — the making up or coining of memorable phrases or slogans
- phrygian cap — a soft, conical cap represented in ancient Greek art as part of Phrygian dress and associated, since the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with the liberty cap.
- physiography — the science of physical geography.
- physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
- pictographic — a pictorial sign or symbol.
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
- pigtail hook — a screw hook having an eye in the form of a spiral for holding a loop, chain link, etc., at any angle.
- plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
- planing hull — a hull that tends to rise from the water when under way so that no significant amount of water is displaced beyond a certain speed.
- planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
- polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.