11-letter words containing p, h, a, n
- cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- chain plate — any of the metal plates secured to the hull of a sailing vessel or elsewhere to hold shrouds and backstays at their lower ends.
- chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
- chairperson — The chairperson of a meeting, committee, or organization is the person in charge of it.
- champignons — Plural form of champignon.
- championess — a female champion
- championing — a person who has defeated all opponents in a competition or series of competitions, so as to hold first place: the heavyweight boxing champion.
- champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
- channel-hop — to change television channels repeatedly using a remote control device
- chaperonage — The state of being a chaperon.
- chaperoning — a person, usually a married or older woman, who, for propriety, accompanies a young unmarried woman in public or who attends a party of young unmarried men and women.
- chaperonins — Plural form of chaperonin.
- charpentier — Gustave (ɡystav). 1860–1956, French composer, whose best-known work is the opera Louise (1900)
- cheap money — money lent at a low rate of interest
- chimney cap — a raised cover for the top of a chimney, usually in the form of a slab or cornice.
- chimpanzees — Plural form of chimpanzee.
- chinquapins — Plural form of chinquapin.
- chippendale — Chippendale is a style of furniture from the eighteenth century.
- chiropteran — of, relating to, or belonging to the Chiroptera, an order of placental mammals comprising the bats
- chronograph — an accurate instrument for recording small intervals of time
- chymopapain — papain, esp. when injected into a slipped disk to dissolve pain-causing soft cartilage
- cling peach — a clingstone peach.
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- complaineth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'complain'.
- coprophagan — a dung beetle
- coronagraph — an optical instrument used to simulate an eclipse of the sun so that the faint solar corona can be studied
- coronograph — an instrument for observing and photographing the sun's corona, consisting of a telescope fitted with lenses, filters, and diaphragms that simulate an eclipse.
- craniograph — an instrument that outlines the skull.
- craniophore — a device that holds a skull in place for measuring.
- crapehanger — a gloomy person; a pessimist
- crepehanger — a person who sees the gloomy side of things; pessimist.
- ctenophoran — of a ctenophore
- cymophanous — lustrous; brilliant
- cytopharynx — the gullet of a protozoan.
- dampishness — the quality of being dampish
- deccan hemp — kenaf.
- despatching — Present participle of despatch.
- diamorphine — heroin.
- diaphaneity — the quality of being diaphanous; transparency.
- diaphonical — Diacoustic; diaphonic.
- diophantine — Alternative capitalization of Diophantine.
- diphthongal — Pertaining to a diphthong.
- diphthongia — diplophonia.
- diplophonia — a condition in which the voice simultaneously produces two sounds of different pitch.
- discophoran — a member of the Discophora group
- dispatching — Send off to a destination or for a purpose.
- donut peach — fruit
- drop a hint — If you drop a hint, you give a hint or say something in a casual way.
- drop anchor — secure a ship in place