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12-letter words containing p, h, l

  • photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • photovoltaic — of or relating to the photovoltaic effect.
  • phragmoplast — the cytoplasmic structure that forms at the equator of the spindle after the chromosomes have divided during the anaphase of plant mitosis, and that initiates cell division.
  • phrasal verb — a combination of verb and one or more adverbial or prepositional particles, as catch on, take off, bring up, or put up with, functioning as a single semantic unit and often having an idiomatic meaning that could not be predicted from the meanings of the individual parts.
  • phrenologist — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
  • phrenologize — to treat with phrenology or phrenological methods
  • phycologists — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
  • phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
  • phylogenesis — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
  • phylogenetic — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
  • physicalness — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
  • physiologies — the branch of biology dealing with the functions and activities of living organisms and their parts, including all physical and chemical processes.
  • physiologist — a specialist in physiology.
  • phytobiology — the branch of biology dealing with plants.
  • phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
  • picnic lunch — a meal that you take and eat outdoors
  • pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
  • pigtail hook — a screw hook having an eye in the form of a spiral for holding a loop, chain link, etc., at any angle.
  • pillow fight — a mock fight in which participants thump each other with pillows
  • pinch roller — a flexible device that presses magnetic tape against the capstan in a tape recorder.
  • pitch a tale — to tell a story, usually of a fantastic nature
  • pitch chisel — a broad-edged chisel for cutting plane surfaces on stones.
  • pitch circle — an imaginary circle within the profiles of the teeth of a gear, such that it rotates against a similar circle rotating at the same rate on a meshing gear.
  • place-holder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
  • plagiohedral — (of a crystal) having faces arranged obliquely in a helix.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • planet earth — the world
  • planet wheel — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
  • planing hull — a hull that tends to rise from the water when under way so that no significant amount of water is displaced beyond a certain speed.
  • planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • plasma torch — an electrical device for converting a gas into a plasma, used for melting metal
  • plasmasphere — a region of cool plasma surrounding the earth, extending 8000–25,000 miles (13,000–40,000 km) into space, and bounded by the plasmapause.
  • plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
  • play chicken — to engage in a test of courage in which, typically, two vehicles are driven directly toward one another in order to see which driver will swerve away first
  • play clothes — clothes that are suitable for playing in
  • play therapy — a form of psychotherapy used chiefly with children, in which patients act out situations in play that are expressive of their emotional problems, conflicts, etc.
  • play through — to pass another foursome or group with their permission, while playing a round of golf
  • pleased with — satisfied or content with
  • pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
  • pleomorphism — existence of an organism in two or more distinct forms during the life cycle; polymorphism.
  • pleomorphous — characterized by pleomorphism
  • plinth block — a plinth interrupting a door or window architrave at the floor or ground level.
  • plough horse — a horse used for pulling a plough
  • ploughwright — a person who makes ploughs
  • plymouth bay — a small, well-protected bay on the coast of Massachusetts; the first permanent European settlement in New England; founded by the Pilgrim Fathers.
  • poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
  • poland china — one of an American breed of black hogs having white markings.
  • polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • polarography — Chemistry. the use of a Polarograph to perform qualitative or quantitative analyses.
  • police chief — chief of police: head of a US police force
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