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11-letter words containing p, h, a, n

  • odontograph — an instrument for laying out the forms of gear teeth or ratchets.
  • odontopathy — (pathology) Any disease that affects the teeth.
  • odynophagia — Severe pain in mouth or esophagus when attempting to swallow.
  • old spanish — the Spanish language of the 12th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OSp.
  • onychophagy — the habit of biting one's fingernails
  • open-handed — generous; liberal: openhanded hospitality.
  • open-hearth — noting, pertaining to, or produced by the open-hearth process.
  • openhearted — Frank and candid.
  • orphan drug — Pharmacology. a drug that remains undeveloped or untested or is otherwise neglected because of limited potential for commercial gain.
  • orthopteran — orthopterous.
  • pachysandra — any plant of the genus Pachysandra, as the Allegheny spurge or Japanese spurge, the leaves of which grow in a rounded clump, widely used as a ground cover in the U.S.
  • paint horse — paint (def 6).
  • pan crusher — A pan crusher is a crusher in which solids are broken by a wheel which is turning in a pan.
  • pan-atheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
  • panathenaea — a festival in honor of the goddess Athena, celebrated yearly in ancient Athens, with each fourth year reserved for greater pomp, marked by contests, as in athletics and music, and highlighted by a solemn procession to the Acropolis bearing a peplos embroidered for the goddess.
  • panathenaia — a festival in honor of the goddess Athena, celebrated yearly in ancient Athens, with each fourth year reserved for greater pomp, marked by contests, as in athletics and music, and highlighted by a solemn procession to the Acropolis bearing a peplos embroidered for the goddess.
  • panathenaic — of or relating to a Panathenaea, a festival in honor of the goddess Athena.
  • pancha sila — a standard recitation of Hinayanists, including repetitions of formulas and of vows to abstain from anger, lust, cowardice, malevolence, and to abstain from the desire for possessions and unwholesome pleasures.
  • panchreston — a proposed explanation intended to address a complex problem by trying to account for all possible contingencies but typically proving to be too broadly conceived and therefore oversimplified to be of any practical use.
  • panel house — a brothel having rooms with secret entrances, as sliding panels, for admitting panel thieves.
  • panel thief — a thief who secretly robs the customers in a panel house.
  • panentheism — the belief that God is a part of the universe as well as transcending it
  • panentheist — someone who believes that God is a part of the universe as well as transcending it
  • panesthesia — total awareness and perception
  • panhandling — to accost passers-by on the street and beg from them.
  • panhellenic — of or relating to all Greeks or to Panhellenism.
  • panomphaean — understood universally
  • panpsychism — a theory that all matter has some form of consciousness.
  • panpsychist — someone who believes that all matter has an element of consciousness
  • pantheistic — the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
  • pantheology — a branch of theology embracing all gods and all religions
  • pantheonize — to place, especially to bury, in a pantheon: The author will be pantheonized following the funeral mass.
  • pantothenic — denoting an acid which is a growth-promoting vitamin of vitamin B complex
  • paper chain — a decorative chain of loops of coloured paper
  • paperhanger — a person whose job is covering walls with wallpaper.
  • paphlagonia — an ancient country and Roman province in N Asia Minor, on the S coast of the Black Sea.
  • parachuting — descent using parachute
  • paranephric — located near the kidney
  • paranephros — the adrenal gland
  • paraphernal — (sometimes used with a singular verb) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia.
  • paraphrenia — a type of severe paranoid schizophrenia
  • parataniwha — a New Zealand plant, Elatostema rugosa, with pink and red serrated leaves
  • parchedness — the state or characteristic of being parched
  • parenchymal — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • parentheses — either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
  • parenthesis — either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
  • parenthetic — of, pertaining to, noting, or of the nature of a parenthesis: several unnecessary parenthetic remarks.
  • parishioner — one of the community or inhabitants of a parish.
  • paronychial — of or relating to paronychia
  • partnership — the state or condition of being a partner; participation; association; joint interest.
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