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

  • polarograph — a device for analysing ions in solution by using an electrolytic cell with a very small cathode
  • pole hammer — a shafted weapon having a spiked hammer head.
  • polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
  • polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
  • pornography — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
  • porphyratin — any of various complex compounds formed of metals and porphyrins
  • port arthur — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
  • postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
  • potty-chair — a small chair with an open seat over a removable pot, for use by a child during toilet training.
  • pouched rat — pocket gopher.
  • power ahead — If an economy or company powers ahead, it becomes stronger and more successful.
  • power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
  • praetorship — the office of a praetor.
  • prajadhipok — 1893–1941, king of Siam 1925–35.
  • prank flash — a short film or animation linked surreptitiously to an innocuous website, intended to shock unsuspecting and easily-offended users of the internet
  • pre-ethical — not governed by ethics, or not having an ethical or moral aspect
  • pre-hearing — the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.
  • pre-holiday — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
  • pre-spanish — of or relating to Spain, its people, or their language.
  • preachiness — the quality of being preachy; a preachy style, esp a tedious one
  • preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
  • preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
  • predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
  • preemphasis — a process of increasing the amplitude of certain frequencies relative to others in a signal in order to help them override noise, complemented by deemphasis before final reproduction of the signal being received.
  • prefreshman — before being a freshman
  • preheadache — occurring before a headache
  • prehispanic — Spanish.
  • prelateship — the rank of a prelate
  • prepurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
  • prickly ash — Also called Northern prickly ash, toothache tree. a citrus shrub or small tree, Zanthoxylum americanum, having aromatic leaves and usually prickly branches.
  • primateship — primacy (def 2).
  • privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
  • procephalic — of or relating to the head.
  • prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • prophylaxis — Medicine/Medical. the preventing of disease. the prevention of a specific disease, as by studying the biological behavior, transmission, etc., of its causative agent and applying a series of measures against it.
  • prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
  • prosobranch — a gastropod mollusc of the subclass Prosobranchia, which includes conches, limpets, abalones, and numerous aquatic and terrestrial snails
  • prothalamia — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
  • prothalloid — resembling a prothallus
  • prothoracic — relating to an insect's prothorax
  • protopathic — noting or pertaining to a general, nondiscriminating responsiveness to pain or temperature stimuli (opposed to epicritic).
  • prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
  • psaligraphy — the art of cutting out silhouettes
  • pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
  • psychiatric — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
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