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12-letter words containing p, h, c

  • phycologists — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
  • phycoxanthin — a yellow pigment found in brown seaweeds and types of algae
  • phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
  • phylogenetic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
  • physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • physiognomic — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
  • physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
  • phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
  • pi character — any special character, such as an accent or mathematical symbol, which is not normally obtained in a standard type fount
  • picnic lunch — a meal that you take and eat outdoors
  • picot stitch — a stitch that produces picots, or loops, of thread that extend beneath a row of connecting or finishing stitches.
  • pictographic — a pictorial sign or symbol.
  • picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
  • picture show — motion picture.
  • picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
  • pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
  • pigeon-chest — chicken breast.
  • pinch effect — the tendency of an electric conductor or stream of charged particles to constrict, caused by the action of a magnetic field that is produced by a flow of electricity.
  • pinch hitter — Baseball. a substitute who bats for a teammate, often at a critical moment of the game.
  • pinch roller — a flexible device that presses magnetic tape against the capstan in a tape recorder.
  • pinch runner — a player sent into a game to replace a base runner.
  • pinch-hitter — a batter who acts as a substitute for the scheduled batter
  • pinchcommons — a person who is frugal with food
  • pinturicchio — real name Bernardino di Betto. ?1454–1513, Italian painter of the Umbrian school
  • pirate perch — a purplish North American freshwater fish, Aphredoderus sayanus, the adult of which has the vent located in back of the lower jaw.
  • pitch a tale — to tell a story, usually of a fantastic nature
  • pitch accent — (in languages such as Ancient Greek or modern Swedish) an accent in which emphatic syllables are pronounced on a higher musical pitch relative to other syllables
  • pitch chisel — a broad-edged chisel for cutting plane surfaces on stones.
  • pitch circle — an imaginary circle within the profiles of the teeth of a gear, such that it rotates against a similar circle rotating at the same rate on a meshing gear.
  • pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
  • place-holder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • plasma torch — an electrical device for converting a gas into a plasma, used for melting metal
  • plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
  • play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
  • play clothes — clothes that are suitable for playing in
  • pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
  • plinth block — a plinth interrupting a door or window architrave at the floor or ground level.
  • point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • poland china — one of an American breed of black hogs having white markings.
  • police chief — chief of police: head of a US police force
  • policyholder — the individual or firm in whose name an insurance policy is written; an insured.
  • poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
  • polyarchical — a form of government in which power is vested in three or more persons.
  • polychaetous — of or relating to the genus Polychaeta
  • polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
  • polycythemic — relating to polycythemia
  • polyhistoric — relating to a polyhistor
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