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13-letter words containing p, h, a, g, i

  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • parking light — The parking lights on a vehicle are the small lights at the front that help other drivers to notice the vehicle and to judge its width.
  • parma heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • pathogenicity — the disease-producing capacity of a pathogen.
  • pathognomonic — Medicine/Medical. characteristic or diagnostic of a specific disease: a pathognomonic sign of pneumonia.
  • pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • periwig chair — a chair of c1700 having a high, caned back with an elaborately carved cresting.
  • pharmacologic — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • pharyngealize — to pronounce with pharyngeal coarticulation.
  • phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
  • phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
  • phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
  • phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
  • phone-tapping — Phone-tapping is the activity of listening secretly to someone's phone conversations using special electronic equipment. In most cases phone-tapping is illegal.
  • phong shading — (graphics)   A model of how light is reflected from surfaces used extensively in three dimensional graphics to generate visually realistic images.
  • photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
  • photo-stating — 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.
  • photoallergic — photosensitive.
  • photogelatine — relating to photographic processes in which gelatine is used in receiving or transferring prints
  • photographing — a picture produced by photography.
  • photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • physiographic — the science of physical geography.
  • physiological — of or relating to physiology.
  • pigheadedness — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
  • plagiocephaly — a deformity of the skull in which one side is more developed in the front, and the other side is more developed in the rear.
  • plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
  • playwrighting — the writing of plays
  • point shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
  • point-shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
  • polygamophile — a person who approves of or countenances polygamy, especially as practiced by others.
  • potato blight — fungal disease affecting potatoes
  • power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
  • pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
  • psychographic — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
  • psychological — of or relating to psychology.
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
  • quota-hopping — (in the EU) the practice of obtaining the right to catch a part of a country's national quota for fish in European waters by buying licences from its fishermen
  • reprographics — reprography.
  • saratoga chip — potato chip.
  • scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
  • shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
  • shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
  • shaking palsy — Parkinson's disease.
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
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