10-letter words containing p, h, l, s
- lyophilise — Alternative spelling of lyophilize.
- machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
- mesophilic — (of bacteria) growing best at moderate temperatures, between 25°C and 40°C.
- mesophylls — Plural form of mesophyll.
- multiphase — having many phases, stages, aspects, or the like.
- museophile — One who loves museums.
- mysophilia — a pathological attraction to dirt or filth.
- oenophiles — Plural form of oenophile.
- oleographs — Plural form of oleograph.
- open flash — a photographic technique employing a flash fired while the camera shutter is held open.
- open-shelf — open-stack.
- paddlefish — a large ganoid fish, Polyodon spathula, of the Mississippi River and its larger tributaries, having a long, flat, paddlelike snout.
- pale horse — a representation of Death, as in literature or the Bible.
- paschal ii — (Ranieri) died 1118, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1099–1118.
- pebbledash — to cover with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
- penn hills — a town in W Pennsylvania.
- perishable — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
- phalangist — a member of a Lebanese Christian paramilitary organization founded in 1936 and originally based on similar ideas to the fascist Falange in Spain
- phallicism — worship of the phallus, especially as symbolic of power or of the generative principle of nature.
- phantasmal — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
- phenoplast — phenolic resin.
- philippics — any of the orations delivered by Demosthenes, the Athenian orator, in the 4th century b.c., against Philip, king of Macedon.
- philistian — an ancient country on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- philistine — (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
- philosophe — any of the popular French intellectuals or social philosophers of the 18th century, as Diderot, Rousseau, or Voltaire.
- philosophy — the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
- phlegmasia — a condition characterized by swelling, pain, and redness
- phlogistic — Pathology. inflammatory.
- phlogiston — a nonexistent chemical that, prior to the discovery of oxygen, was thought to be released during combustion.
- pholidosis — the layout or disposition of the scales of reptiles
- phosphoryl — a radical chemical consisting of phosphorus and oxygen, represented by the symbol pO
- photocells — a solid-state device that converts light into electrical energy by producing a voltage, as in a photovoltaic cell, or uses light to regulate the flow of current, as in a photoconductive cell: used in automatic control systems for doors, lighting, etc.
- photoflash — flashbulb.
- photolyses — the chemical decomposition of materials under the influence of light.
- photolysis — the chemical decomposition of materials under the influence of light.
- phraseless — lacking in a phrase or phrases
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- phthisical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected by phthisis.
- physically — relating to the body or its appearance: He is not physically attractive.
- physiology — the branch of biology dealing with the functions and activities of living organisms and their parts, including all physical and chemical processes.
- phytoplasm — protoplasm of a plant or plants.
- pick holes — If you pick holes in an argument or theory, you find weak points in it so that it is no longer valid.
- pilot fish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pilot-fish — a small, marine fish, Naucrates ductor, often swimming with sharks.
- pilothouse — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- plate shop — a shop for cold-forming metal plates.
- play house — to pretend in child's play to be grown-up people with the customary household duties
- playschool — preschool, nursery school
- ploughwise — back and forth in alternate rows, in the manner of a plough