15-letter words containing p, h, a
- antishoplifting — designed to prevent shoplifting
- apartment hotel — a hotel that rents furnished apartments or suites suitable for housekeeping, on a weekly or more permanent basis, and usually supplies all hotel services.
- apartment house — a building containing a number of residential apartments.
- aphrodite terra — a large plateau region that stretches approximately halfway around the middle latitude of Venus.
- apophthegmatise — to speak in apophthegms
- apophthegmatist — a person who creates apophthegms
- apophthegmatize — to use apophthegms
- apostle pitcher — a stoneware pitcher decorated in relief with figures of the apostles.
- apostrophically — (rhetoric) Using apostrophe; with sudden exclamatory dialogue.
- appalachian tea — any of various plants, as withe rod, whose leaves were used locally for tea in pioneer times
- apple macintosh — Macintosh
- apprenticeships — Plural form of apprenticeship.
- approach lights — lights on the runway that guide planes coming in to land
- approachability — capable of being approached; accessible.
- approved school — In Britain in the past, an approved school was a boarding school where young people could be sent to stay if they had been found guilty of a crime.
- arc de triomphe — the triumphal arch in Paris begun by Napoleon I to commemorate his victories of 1805–6 and completed in 1836
- arch of triumph — Arc de Triomphe.
- archibald prize — an annual prize awarded by the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales since 1921, for outstanding contributions to art, letters, science, and politics
- archiepiscopacy — a form of church government in which power is vested in archbishops.
- archiepiscopate — the rank, office, or term of office of an archbishop
- astrophotograph — a photograph of the heavenly bodies
- astrophotometry — the measurement of the intensity of light of celestial objects.
- astrophysically — from an astrophysical point of view
- astrophysicists — Plural form of astrophysicist.
- at the point of — very close to; on the verge of
- athletic sports — sports, esp track and field events, in which athleticism is required
- atmospherically — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
- autobiographers — Plural form of autobiographer.
- autobiographies — Plural form of autobiography.
- autolithography — a lithographic technique by which the artist draws or traces with a brush and pen directly on a stone or plate.
- automorphically — in an automorphic manner
- autoradiographs — Plural form of autoradiograph.
- autoradiography — the technique or process of making autoradiographs.
- autotrophically — through an autotrophic process
- bacteriophagous — Pertaining to the predation and consumption of bacterium.
- bad housekeeper — a person who is not an efficient and thrifty domestic manager
- balanoposthitis — An inflammation of the glans penis and the prepuce.
- ballpeen hammer — a hammer that has one end of its head shaped in a hemisphere for beating metal, etc
- bargaining chip — In negotiations with other people, a bargaining chip is something that you are prepared to give up in order to obtain what you want.
- barium sulphate — a white insoluble fine dense powder, used as a pigment, as a filler for paper, rubber, etc, and in barium meals. Formula: BaSO4
- barothermograph — an automatic instrument for recording pressure and temperature.
- battleship gray — a subdued bluish gray.
- bay of campeche — the SW part of the Gulf of Mexico
- beet leafhopper — a small leafhopper (Circulifer tenellus) that transmits a very destructive virus to sugar beets
- beyond the pale — If you think that someone's actions or behaviour are not acceptable, you can say that they are beyond the pale.
- bibliographical — a complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, or printer.
- biobibliography — a bibliography containing biographical sketches of the authors listed.
- biostratigraphy — the examination of the ages of rock strata by using fossils
- bipartite graph — complete graph
- birch partridge — ruffed grouse