11-letter words containing p, h, e, a
- microphages — Plural form of microphage.
- middle path — the conduct of life by a religious person in such a way as to avoid the extremes of luxury and asceticism.
- mimeographs — Plural form of mimeograph.
- mimographer — a writer of mimes
- mis-phrased — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
- misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- misemphasis — an incorrect emphasis
- mishappened — Simple past tense and past participle of mishappen.
- mispurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- monographed — Simple past tense and past participle of monograph.
- monotherapy — (medicine) A therapy which is administered by itself.
- moore graph — A graph which achieves the Moore bound. These are complete graphs, polygon graphs (regular graphs of degree 2) and three others: (nodes, degree, diameter) = (10,3,2), (50,7,2) and the possible but undiscovered (3250,57,2).
- murphy game — a confidence game in which the victim pays the swindler (Murphy Man) for something, as the services of a prostitute, which the swindler promises but the victim never receives
- museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
- myelography — the production of myelograms.
- myelopathic — any disorder of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.
- nanospheres — Plural form of nanosphere.
- naphazoline — 2-(1-naphthylmethyl)-2-imidazoline hydrochloride, a sympathomimetic agent used as a vasoconstrictor.
- naphthacene — an explosive solid compound, C 1 8 H 1 2 , derived from anthracene and coal tar: used for detonating high explosives, as TNT.
- naphthalene — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble hydrocarbon, C 1 0 H 8 , usually obtained from coal tar: used in making dyes, as a moth repellant, etc.
- naphthaline — Naphthalene.
- naphthalize — to mix or saturate with naphtha.
- neanthropic — of or relating to modern forms of humans as compared with extinct species of the genus Homo.
- necrophagan — (zoology) Any of the tribe Necrophaga of beetles whose larvae feed on carrion.
- necrophagia — the eating of dead bodies; esp., the practice of feeding on carrion
- necrophilia — an erotic attraction to corpses.
- necrophobia — an abnormal fear of death; thanatophobia.
- negrophobia — strong fear or dislike of black people.
- nematomorph — any member of the phylum Nematomorpha, having a threadlike body, comprising the horsehair worms.
- nematophore — (within the coenosarc of certain colonial hydrozoans) a small specialized tentacle-like polyp having nematocysts
- nephritical — Alternative form of nephritic.
- nephropathy — any disease of the kidney.
- neuropathic — any diseased condition of the nervous system.
- nomographer — the art of or a treatise on drawing up laws.
- nonemphatic — lacking emphasis, not emphatic
- nonpathogen — An organism that is not a pathogen.
- noun phrase — a construction that functions syntactically as a noun, consisting of a noun and any modifiers, as all the men in the room who are reading books, or of a noun substitute, as a pronoun.
- nyckelharpa — an old-time Swedish stringed musical instrument, similar to the hurdy-gurdy but sounded with a bow instead of a wheel.
- ocean perch — redfish (def 1).
- oesophageal — esophageal.
- off the map — no longer important or in existence (esp in the phrase wipe off the map)
- ommatophore — a tentacle or movable stalk bearing an eye, as in certain snails.
- omphalocele — A hernia of the navel.
- open-handed — generous; liberal: openhanded hospitality.
- open-hearth — noting, pertaining to, or produced by the open-hearth process.
- openhearted — Frank and candid.
- opera house — a theater devoted chiefly to operas.
- ophicalcite — a type of marble containing serpentine and calcite
- oral herpes — a disease caused by herpes simplex virus type 1, characterized primarily by a cluster of small, transient blisters chiefly at the edge of the lip or nostril; herpes labialis.
- orthopaedic — of or relating to orthopedics.