10-letter words containing p, h, i, s
- motor ship — a ship propelled by an internal-combustion engine or engines
- multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- museophile — One who loves museums.
- musophobia — Fear of mice.
- myopathies — Plural form of myopathy.
- mysophilia — a pathological attraction to dirt or filth.
- mysophobia — a dread of dirt or filth.
- mysophobic — a dread of dirt or filth.
- nightscape — a scene viewed at night, especially as represented in art.
- nightscope — An optical instrument that provides night vision.
- nightspots — Plural form of nightspot.
- nosophobia — an abnormal fear of disease.
- noviceship — The state or position of being a novice.
- oenophiles — Plural form of oenophile.
- oophoritis — inflammation of an ovary, usually combined with an inflammation of the Fallopian tubes; ovaritis.
- open sight — (on a firearm) a rear sight consisting of a notch across which the gunner aligns the front sight on the target.
- orpharions — Plural form of orpharion.
- orthoepist — the study of correct pronunciation.
- orthoprism — a prism which has faces parallel to its vertical axis
- orthoptics — a method of exercising the eye and its muscles in order to cure strabismus or improve vision.
- orthoptist — One who practices orthoptics.
- oven chips — chips or fries that can be cooked in the oven
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- padma shri — (in India) an award for distinguished service in any field
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- panatheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
- pansophism — a claim or pretension to pansophy.
- pansophist — someone with universal knowledge
- paraphasia — a defect of speech in which the normal flow of words is interrupted by inappropriate words and phrases
- paraphasic — of, resembling, or exhibiting paraphasia
- paraphysis — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- parathesis — the placing of grammatically parallel words or phrases together; apposition
- parischane — a parish
- parrotfish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
- paschal ii — (Ranieri) died 1118, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1099–1118.
- pasigraphy — a system of writing intelligible to persons of all languages; a universal language
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- pastorship — the position, authority, or office of a pastor.
- patchiness — characterized by or made up of patches.
- patriarchs — the male head of a family or tribal line.
- patronship — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- peep sight — a plate containing a small hole through which a gunner peeps in sighting.
- pemphigous — of, relating to, or affected by pemphigus
- penmanship — the art of handwriting; the use of the pen in writing.
- penn hills — a town in W Pennsylvania.
- pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
- periphrase — the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
- perishable — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.