12-letter words containing p, h, a
- unpunishably — in an unpunishable manner
- unreproached — not reproached, criticized, or scolded
- up the wazoo — the anus.
- upright bass — double bass
- vaporishness — the quality or state of being vaporish
- veneer patch — a patch made in one of the veneers of a sheet of plywood before layup.
- videographer — a person who makes films with a video camera.
- walk spanish — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- watch pocket — a small pocket in a garment, as in a vest or trousers, for holding a pocket watch, change, etc. Compare fob1 (def 1).
- water splash — a place where a stream runs over a road
- watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
- weather ship — a ship equipped for meteorological observation.
- weatherproof — able to withstand exposure to all kinds of weather.
- weatherstrip — A strip of rubber, metal, or other material used to seal the edges of a door or window against the cold.
- webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
- wedge-shaped — shaped like a wedge
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- whaling ship — a ship engaged in whaling
- wheeltappers — Plural form of wheeltapper.
- whip-cracker — a person who cracks a whip.
- white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
- white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
- white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
- white potato — potato (def 1).
- white sapote — a tropical American tree, Casimiroa edulis, of the rue family, having greenish, inconspicuous flowers and tomatolike fleshy fruit that is yellow on the inside and gray or yellowish-green on the outside.
- whooper swan — a common, Old World swan, Cygnus cygnus, distinguished by a yellow patch at the base of its bill, noted for its whooping cry.
- wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
- woolly aphid — any plant louse of the family Aphididae, characterized by a waxy secretion that appears like a jumbled mass of fine, curly, white cottony or woolly threads, as Eriosoma lanigerum (woolly apple aphid or American blight) and Prociphilus tessellatus (woolly alder aphid)
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler
- xanthopterin — a yellow pigment, C6H5N5O2, found in some butterfly or moth wings or in the urine of mammals
- yachting cap — a cap with a round flat top and a visor
- yachtspeople — Plural form of yachtsperson.
- yachtsperson — A yachtsman or yachtswoman.
- zephyranthes — any of various bulbous plants belonging to the genus Zephyranthes, of the amaryllis family, as Z. grandiflora, having showy rose or pink flowers.
- zone therapy — a type of massage which works on the theory that specific parts of the foot or palm of the hand are associated with different parts of the body, and that massaging the feet or hands will give the patient relief from disorders in the related part of the body
- zoogeography — the science dealing with the geographical distribution of animals.
- zygapophysis — one of the four processes of a vertebra, occurring in pairs that interlock each vertebra with the vertebrae above and below.