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14-letter words containing p, h, e, n, a

  • philanthropize — to treat (persons) in a philanthropic manner.
  • philippine sea — part of the NW Pacific Ocean, east and north of the Philippines
  • photoengraving — a photographic process of preparing printing plates for letterpress printing.
  • phthalocyanine — Also called metal-free phthalocyanine. a blue-green pigment, C 3 2 H 1 8 N 8 , derived from phthalic anhydride.
  • pigeon-hearted — timid; meek.
  • pinhole camera — a simple camera in which an aperture provided by a pinhole in an opaque diaphragm is used in place of a lens.
  • pink champagne — a sparkling white wine, especially of the Champagne district of France, colored slightly by the grape skins during fermentation or the addition of a small amount of red wine just before the second fermentation.
  • pink elephants — a facetious name applied to hallucinations caused by drunkenness
  • pinking shears — shears that have notched blades, for cutting and simultaneously pinking fabric or for finishing garments with a notched, nonfraying edge.
  • pithecanthrope — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Pithecanthropus.
  • plenum-chamber — a system of mechanical ventilation in which fresh air is forced into the spaces to be ventilated from a chamber (plenum chamber) at a pressure slightly higher than atmospheric pressure, so as to expel foul air.
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • polar zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it at one of the poles
  • preanaesthetic — a drug administered prior to an anaesthetic
  • pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
  • pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
  • project athena — (project)   A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at MIT. Much of the software developed is now in wider use, especially the X Window System.
  • prosencephalon — the forebrain.
  • pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
  • psephoanalysis — the statistical and sociological analysis of election trends and results
  • psychoanalyses — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
  • punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
  • purse snatcher — wallet thief
  • put on the map — a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth or a portion of the heavens, showing them in their respective forms, sizes, and relationships according to some convention of representation: a map of Canada.
  • put on the pan — to criticize severely
  • put the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • pyrotechnician — a specialist in the origin of fires, their nature and control, etc.
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • radiotelephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
  • radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
  • rhinencephalon — the part of the cerebrum containing the olfactory structures.
  • riemann sphere — a sphere used for a stereographic projection.
  • roentgenograph — roentgenogram.
  • rogue elephant — a vicious elephant that has been exiled from the herd.
  • roman alphabet — Latin alphabet.
  • röntgenography — radiography
  • sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
  • saphenous vein — either of two large veins near the surface of the foot, leg, and thigh, one on the inner side and the other on the outer and posterior sides.
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • scrap merchant — dealer in discarded materials
  • shakespeareana — collected writings or items relating to Shakespeare
  • shipping agent — a person or company whose business is to prepare shipping documents, arrange shipping space and insurance, and deal with customs requirements
  • shoe repairing — the trade of mending shoes
  • shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
  • shove-ha'penny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
  • shrink-wrapped — A shrink-wrapped product is sold in a tight covering of thin plastic.
  • simple machine — machine (def 3b).
  • siphonapterous — belonging or pertaining to the insect order Siphonaptera, comprising the fleas.
  • sistine chapel — the chapel of the pope in the Vatican at Rome, built for Pope Sixtus IV and decorated with frescoes by Michelangelo and others.
  • sleeping chair — a chair of the 17th century, having a high back, usually adjustable, with deep wings of the same height.
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