11-letter words containing p, h, a
- barber shop — A barber shop is a shop where a barber works.
- barber-shop — Also called, especially British, barber's shop. the place of business of a barber.
- barbershops — Plural form of barbershop.
- barographic — Measured using a barograph.
- batch plant — a manufacturing plant where concrete is mixed before being transported to a construction site ready to be poured.
- bath pearls — dissolvable granules added to bath water to impart scent or other qualities
- bath sponge — any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.
- bathing cap — a tight rubber cap worn by a swimmer to keep the hair dry
- bathophobia — the fear of depths of any kind, whether a fear of deep water or of falling from a great height
- bathygraphy — The scientific description of the depth of the ocean.
- bathyscaphe — a navigable, submersible vessel for exploring the depths of the ocean, having a separate, overhead chamber filled with gasoline for buoyancy and iron or steel weights for ballast.
- bathysphere — a strong steel deep-sea diving sphere, lowered by cable
- batsmanship — (cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
- battleships — Plural form of battleship.
- beach party — a party held on a beach
- beach scarp — a steep slope or miniature cliff, formed by wave action, fronting the berm on a beach.
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- bell-shaped — shaped like a bell
- bethel park — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- bibliograph — to put in a bibliography.
- bibliophage — an ardent reader; a bookworm.
- bicephalous — having two heads
- biographize — to write a biography of (someone)
- biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
- birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
- black perch — a livebearing surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, occurring in abundance along the coast of California, having brownish-black scales often tinged with blue or yellow and a thick, reddish mouth.
- black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
- blasphemers — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemies — impious utterance or action concerning God or sacred things.
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
- blepharitis — inflammation of the eyelids
- boat-shaped — shaped like a boat
- boatmanship — boatsmanship.
- bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
- boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- brahmaputra — a river in S Asia, rising in SW Tibet as the Tsangpo and flowing through the Himalayas and NE India to join the Ganges at its delta in Bangladesh. Length: about 2900 km (1800 miles)
- branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- bridle path — A bridle path is a path intended for people riding horses.
- brood patch — a highly vascular, featherless area developed on the abdomen of certain brooding birds that is in direct contact with eggs during incubation and provides additional warmth.
- brown patch — a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- bushmanship — the skills necessary for survival in the bush; bushcraft
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- buzz phrase — a phrase that comes into vogue in the same way as a buzz word
- cacographic — Displaying the properties of bad spelling or bad handwriting or both.
- cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.