11-letter words containing p, h, e, a
- plank-sheer — a plank or timber covering the upper ends of the frames of a wooden vessel
- planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
- plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
- platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
- plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
- plerophoria — full conviction
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
- pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
- pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
- poached egg — A poached egg is an egg cooked gently in boiling water, without its shell.
- pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
- pole hammer — a shafted weapon having a spiked hammer head.
- polygrapher — a person who employs a code cipher
- poppet head — the framework above a mining shaft that supports the winding mechanism
- porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
- post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- power ahead — If an economy or company powers ahead, it becomes stronger and more successful.
- power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- pre-ethical — not governed by ethics, or not having an ethical or moral aspect
- pre-hearing — the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.
- pre-holiday — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- pre-spanish — of or relating to Spain, its people, or their language.
- preachiness — the quality of being preachy; a preachy style, esp a tedious one
- preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- preemphasis — a process of increasing the amplitude of certain frequencies relative to others in a signal in order to help them override noise, complemented by deemphasis before final reproduction of the signal being received.
- prefreshman — before being a freshman
- preheadache — occurring before a headache
- prehispanic — Spanish.
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- prepurchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
- procephalic — of or relating to the head.
- prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- prudhoe bay — an inlet of the Beaufort Sea, N of Alaska: large oil and gas fields.
- psammophile — a plant or animal that thrives in sand
- psammophyte — a plant that grows in sand or sandy soil.
- pseudograph — a piece of writing that is falsely ascribed
- psychagogue — a necromancer
- psychedelia — the realm or artifacts of psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like.
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
- publishable — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.