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13-letter words containing p, h, e, n

  • openmouthedly — in a manner filled with amazement and wonder
  • optical bench — an apparatus, as a special table or rigid beam, for the precise positioning of light sources, screens, and optical instruments used for optical and photometric studies, having a ruled bar to which these devices can be attached and along which they can be readily adjusted.
  • organotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the use of remedies prepared from the organs of animals, as from the thyroid gland, the pancreas, or the suprarenal bodies.
  • oropharyngeal — the part of the pharynx between the soft palate and the upper edge of the epiglottis.
  • orthopyroxene — a member of the pyroxene group of minerals having an orthorhombic crystal structure, such as enstatite and hypersthene
  • over-shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • painted horse — paint (def 6).
  • paleethnology — (formerly) the branch of ethnology concerned with the earliest or most primitive human societies.
  • pallas athena — Also, Athene [uh-thee-nee] /əˈθi ni/ (Show IPA). Also called Pallas, Pallas Athena. the virgin deity of the ancient Greeks worshiped as the goddess of wisdom, fertility, the useful arts, and prudent warfare. At her birth she sprang forth fully armed from the head of her father, Zeus. Compare Minerva.
  • panaesthetism — the belief that consciousness may be present in all matter
  • pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
  • panel heating — heating of a room or building by means of wall, ceiling, floor, or baseboard panels containing heating pipes or electrical conductors.
  • pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • paraphernalia — (sometimes used with a singular verb) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia.
  • parasynthesis — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
  • parasynthetic — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
  • parasyntheton — a word formed by parasynthesis; for example, kind-hearted
  • parencephalon — a cerebral hemisphere
  • parental home — a school for problem children.
  • parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
  • parenthetical — of, pertaining to, noting, or of the nature of a parenthesis: several unnecessary parenthetic remarks.
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • parnell shout — a social occasion where each person in a group pays for his or her own entertainment or meal
  • parry channel — a water channel in N Canada running between Baffin Bay on the E and the Arctic Ocean on the W: separates the Queen Elizabeth Islands (N) from the rest of the Arctic Archipelago.
  • part exchange — If you give an old item in part exchange for something you are buying, the seller accepts the old item as part of the payment, so you do not have to give them as much money.
  • parthenocarpy — the production of fruit without fertilization of an egg in the ovary.
  • parthenopaeus — a son of Hippomenes and Atalanta, and one of the Seven against Thebes.
  • parthenospore — a spore developed without fertilization.
  • party machine — the internal organization of a political party, which decides its policies and directs its activities
  • passchendaele — a village in NW Belgium, in West Flanders province: the scene of heavy fighting during the third battle of Ypres in World War I during which 245 000 British troops were lost
  • patent hammer — a hammer for dressing stone, having a head with two faces formed of a number of broad, thin chisels bolted side by side.
  • patent holder — a person or company that holds a patent
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • pathogenicity — the disease-producing capacity of a pathogen.
  • peanut heaven — peanut gallery (def 1).
  • pearl-handled — having a handle made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • pennine chain — a range of hills in N England, extending from the S Midlands to the Cheviot Hills.
  • penny pincher — a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
  • penny whistle — a type of flageolet with six finger holes, esp a cheap one made of metal
  • penny-pincher — a miserly, niggardly, or stingy person.
  • pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • penthemimeral — (of a caesura) occurring after the first penthemimer of a poetic line, i.e. in the middle of the third foot
  • perching bird — any member of the avian order Passeriformes.
  • perchlorinate — to combine with the maximum proportion of chlorine.
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