14-letter words containing p, h, a, r
- elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
- enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
- encephalograph — any other apparatus used to produce an encephalogram
- endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
- enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
- ephemeral port — (networking) A TCP or UDP port number that is automatically allocated from a predefined range by the TCP/IP stack software, typically to provide the port for the client end of a client-server communication.
- ephemeropteran — of or relating to the Ephemeroptera
- epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
- epitrachelions — Plural form of epitrachelion.
- ethnographical — Ethnographic.
- euphorbiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Euphorbiaceae, a family of plants typically having capsular fruits: includes the spurges, the castor oil and cassava plants, cascarilla, and poinsettia
- eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
- exoatmospheric — Pertaining to, or occurring in the nearby region of space outside the Earth's atmosphere.
- family therapy — the psychotherapeutic treatment of more than one member of a family simultaneously at the same session, based on the assumption that problems can best be understood and corrected by observing the interaction of family members and identifying methods for improving their interrelationships.
- fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
- feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
- fete champetre — an outdoor festival or a garden party.
- flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- force the pace — to adopt a high speed or rate of procedure
- frasch process — a method of mining sulfur by pumping superheated water down into the deposit, thereby melting it so that it can be pumped to the surface.
- french pancake — a thin, light pancake, usually served with a sweet or savory filling.
- french paradox — the theory that the lower incidence of heart disease in Mediterranean countries compared to that in the US is a consequence of the larger intake of flavonoids from red wine in these countries
- friar preacher — a Dominican friar.
- g-strophanthin — ouabain.
- galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
- galvanotherapy — treatment employing electric current.
- genital herpes — a sexually transmitted disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 2, characterized primarily by transient blisters on and around the genitals.
- geodemographic — Of or pertaining to geography and demography.
- geographically — of or relating to geography.
- go pear-shaped — If a situation goes pear-shaped, bad things start happening.
- grape hyacinth — any plant belonging to the genus Muscari, of the lily family, as M. botryoides, having globular, blue flowers resembling tiny grapes.
- graph coloring — graph colouring
- graphic accent — any mark written above a letter, especially one indicating stress in pronunciation, as in Spanish rápido.
- graphic artist — sb who draws, paints, prints, etc.
- graphic design — the art or profession of visual communication that combines images, words, and ideas to convey information to an audience, especially to produce a specific effect.
- graphite cloth — a nonwoven fabric made by embedding carbon fibers in a plastic bonding material, used in layers as a substitute for sheet metal, as in the construction of aircraft wings.
- graphitization — (geology) The formation of graphite from other organic materials.
- greek alphabet — the alphabetical script derived from a Semitic alphabet by way of the Phoenicians, used from about the 8th century b.c. for the writing of Greek, and forming the basis of many other scripts, including Latin and Cyrillic. The letters of the Greek alphabet are: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu1 , xi, omicron, pi1 , rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi1 , psi1 , omega.
- gynandromorphs — Plural form of gynandromorph.
- hagiographical — Hagiographic.
- hair-splitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
- halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- happy as larry — extremely happy
- hard-core porn — Hard-core porn is pornography that shows sex in a very detailed way, or shows very violent or unpleasant sex.
- harlequin opal — a variety of opal having patches of various colors.
- harper's ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
- harpsichordist — One who plays the harpsichord.