12-letter words containing p, h, a, r, y
- intrapsychic — Within the psyche or mind.
- iontotherapy — (medicine) The therapeutic use of iontophoresis.
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- lahore party — a modern sect, divided into an older group (Qadianis) and a newer group (Lahore party)
- lamprophyres — Plural form of lamprophyre.
- lamprophyric — belonging or relating to a lamprophyre
- laryngophone — A type of contact microphone that absorbs vibrations directly from the wearer's throat.
- laryngophony — the sound of the voice as heard through a stethoscope placed on the throat directly over the larynx
- launch party — a party that celebrates the launch of a new magazine, product, etc
- lay preacher — a preacher who is not a member of the clergy
- lexicography — the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- lycanthropic — a delusion in which one imagines oneself to be a wolf or other wild animal.
- lymphography — lymphangiography.
- macrocephaly — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
- macrophysics — the branch of physics that deals with physical objects large enough to be observed and treated directly.
- magnotherapy — Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism.
- massotherapy — treatment by massage.
- microcephaly — having a head with a small braincase.
- morphography — the scientific description of an external form
- morphosyntax — the study of the morphological and syntactic properties of linguistic or grammatical units.
- murphy's law — the facetious proposition that if something can go wrong, it will.
- myrmecophage — (biology) Anteaters, and other animals chiefly feeding on ants.
- myrmecophagy — Ant-eating.
- mythographer — a person who collects or records myths in writing.
- narcotherapy — an infrequently used method of treating mental disorders by intravenous injection of barbiturates.
- nephrography — Diagnostic imaging of the kidneys.
- neuronopathy — A form of polyneuropathy caused by destruction of neurons.
- night prayer — the last of the seven canonical hours; compline
- oceanography — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
- odontography — a treatise regarding the teeth
- onychophoran — any small, predatory, caterpillarlike animal of the phylum Onychophora, common in tropical forests, having stubby legs ending in pincers.
- organography — the description or visual depiction of organs.
- oropharynxes — Plural form of oropharynx.
- pachycarpous — having a thick pericarp
- pachydermous — any of the thick-skinned, nonruminant ungulates, as the elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
- palaeography — the study of the handwritings of the past, and often the manuscripts as well, so that they may be dated, read, etc, and may serve as historical and literary sources
- palatography — a technique for observing the position of the tongue in relation to the palate during articulation, especially by placing powder or dye on the palate and then noting the area from which it has been removed by the contact of the tongue with the palate during the production of a speech sound.
- para rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
- parahydrogen — the form of molecular hydrogen in which the nuclei of the two hydrogen atoms contained in the molecule have spins in opposite directions.
- parapophysis — the process of a vertebra
- parapsychism — the experience of mental phenomena that are beyond the scope of normal physical explanation
- parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
- pastry brush — a small, flat brush for coating pastry with butter, egg, etc.
- peach brandy — brandy distilled from the fermented juice of peaches.
- pearl hominy — whole or ground hulled corn from which the bran and germ have been removed by bleaching the whole kernels in a lye bath (lye hominy) or by crushing and sifting (pearl hominy)
- pearly white — white and lustrous as a pearl.
- penny shares — Penny shares are shares that are offered for sale at a low price.
- pentahydrate — a hydrate that contains five molecules of water, as potassium molybdate, KMoO 4 ⋅5H 2 O.
- pentahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing five hydroxyl groups.