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10-letter words containing p, h, a

  • paronychia — inflammation of the folds of skin bordering a nail of a finger or toe, usually characterized by infection and pus formation; felon.
  • parrotfish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
  • parthenope — a siren, who drowned herself when Odysseus evaded the lure of the sirens' singing. Her body was said to have been cast ashore at what became Naples
  • party whip — whip (def 21).
  • pas marche — a marching step.
  • paschal ii — (Ranieri) died 1118, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1099–1118.
  • pasigraphy — a system of writing intelligible to persons of all languages; a universal language
  • passphrase — (operating system)   A string of words and characters that you type in to authenticate yourself. Passphrases differ from passwords only in length. Passwords are usually short - six to ten characters. Passphrases are usually much longer - up to 100 characters or more. Modern passphrases were invented by Sigmund N. Porter in 1982. Their greater length makes passphrases more secure. Phil Zimmermann's popular encryption program PGP, for example, requires you to make up a passphrase that you then must enter whenever you sign or decrypt messages.
  • pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
  • pastorship — the position, authority, or office of a pastor.
  • patch cord — a short cord with a plug at each end, or a plug at one end and a pair of clips at the other, used for temporarily connecting two pieces of equipment or signal paths.
  • patch reef — an isolated coral growth forming a small platform in a lagoon, barrier reef, or atoll.
  • patch test — Medicine/Medical. a test for suspected allergy by application to the skin of a patch impregnated with an allergen: allergic reaction is indicated by redness at the site of application.
  • patchboard — a device with a large number of sockets into which electrical plugs can be inserted to form many different temporary circuits: used in telephone exchanges, computer systems, etc
  • patchcocke — a clown
  • patchiness — characterized by or made up of patches.
  • patchstand — a small tazza.
  • pathet lao — the Communist nationalist group that took over the government of Laos in 1975 after two decades of civil war.
  • pathetical — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • pathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
  • pathognomy — the study of the symptoms or characteristics of a disease; diagnosis.
  • pathologic — of or relating to pathology.
  • patriarchs — the male head of a family or tribal line.
  • patriarchy — a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
  • patronship — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
  • pay cheque — Your pay cheque is a piece of paper that your employer gives you as your wages or salary, and which you can then cash at a bank. You can also use pay cheque as a way of referring to your wages or salary.
  • pe teacher — a teacher of Physical Education
  • peach palm — a palm, Bactris gasipaes, having very spiny, tall stems, widely cultivated in the New World tropics for its edible fruit and palm hearts.
  • peach-blow — a delicate purplish pink.
  • peacherino — peach1 (def 4).
  • peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
  • peak hours — prime time, busiest period
  • peashooter — a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
  • pebbledash — to cover with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
  • pedophilia — sexual desire in an adult for a child.
  • penmanship — the art of handwriting; the use of the pen in writing.
  • pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
  • pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
  • pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
  • pentateuch — the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
  • pentathlon — an athletic contest comprising five different track and field events and won by the contestant gaining the highest total score.
  • perihelial — the point in the orbit of a planet or comet at which it is nearest to the sun.
  • peripheral — pertaining to, situated in, or constituting the periphery: peripheral resistance on the outskirts of the battle area.
  • periphrase — the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
  • perishable — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
  • perithecia — the fruiting body of ascomycetous fungi, typically a minute, more or less completely closed, globose or flask-shaped body enclosing the asci.
  • peritricha — ciliate protozoans, of the order Peritrichida, in which the cilia are restricted to a spiral around the mouth
  • permadeath — (in a game, often a video game) the permanent death of a defeated character, after which the player of the game cannot continue with the same character.
  • petechiate — having or marked with petechiae.
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