12-letter words containing p, h, o, e
- picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
- pidyon haben — the rite of relieving the first male child born to parents not descended from Aaron or Levi of certain religious obligations by redeeming him from a member of the priestly class, celebrated 30 days after the child's birth.
- pigeon-chest — chicken breast.
- pinch roller — a flexible device that presses magnetic tape against the capstan in a tape recorder.
- pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- 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.
- play clothes — clothes that are suitable for playing in
- 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
- plough horse — a horse used for pulling a plough
- pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
- pneumothorax — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
- point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
- pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
- police chief — chief of police: head of a US police force
- policyholder — the individual or firm in whose name an insurance policy is written; an insured.
- polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
- poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
- pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
- polychaetous — of or relating to the genus Polychaeta
- polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
- polycythemic — relating to polycythemia
- polyethylene — a plastic polymer of ethylene used chiefly for containers, electrical insulation, and packaging.
- polyhedrosis — an often fatal disease of certain insect larvae or decapod crustaceans, caused by viruses containing DNA.
- polyphenolic — relating to a polyphenol
- polyphyletic — developed from more than one ancestral type, as a group of animals.
- polysulphide — any sulphide of a metal containing divalent anions in which there are chains of sulphur atoms, as in the polysulphides of sodium, Na2S2, Na2S3, Na2S4, etc
- polytheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods: Science thrived in the polytheistic culture of ancient Greece.
- polythiazide — a substance, C 1 1 H 1 3 ClF 3 N 3 O 4 S 3 , used as a diuretic in the management of edema and hypertension.
- polyurethane — a thermoplastic polymer containing the group NHCOO: used for padding and insulation in furniture, clothing, and packaging, and in the manufacture of resins for adhesives, elastomers, and fillers.
- pommel horse — a padded, somewhat cylindrical floor-supported apparatus, similar to a vaulting horse but having two graspable pommels on top, used by men for hand-supported balancing, rotating, and swinging maneuvers.
- ponzi scheme — a swindle in which a quick return, made up of money from new investors, on an initial investment lures the victim into much bigger risks.
- pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
- pork-chopper — a labor official put on the union payroll as a reward for past loyalty or services.
- pornographer — a person who sells, produces, films, photographs, or writes pornography.
- port chester — a city in SE New York, on Long Island Sound.
- port hueneme — a city in S California.
- porthole die — a die having several openings for the extrusion of separate parts of an object later formed by the welding or fusing together of these parts.
- post-harvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- postischemic — occurring after or due to ischaemia
- potting shed — A potting shed is a small building in a garden, in which you can keep things such as seeds or garden tools.
- poughkeepsie — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- powder chest — a small wooden box containing a charge of powder, old nails, scrap iron, etc., formerly secured over the side of a ship and exploded on the attempt of an enemy to board.
- power hammer — a type of mechanical hammer operated by compressed air and used by blacksmiths, metalworkers, and manufacturers
- power shovel — any self-propelled shovel for excavating earth, ore, or coal with a dipper that is powered by a diesel engine or electric motor. Compare shovel (def 2).