11-letter words containing p, h, o, n
- phycophaein — a brownish pigment which is found in seaweed
- phyllomania — the production of leaves in abnormal numbers or places.
- phylloplane — the surface of a leaf considered as a habitat, esp for microorganisms
- physiognomy — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
- pigeon hawk — merlin.
- pigeon-hole — one of a series of small, open compartments, as in a desk, cabinet, or the like, used for filing or sorting papers, letters, etc.
- pigeonholer — someone who likes to pigeonhole people or things
- pinacotheca — a place where works of art are displayed or stored
- pinchbottle — a bottle with concave sides, as for containing liquor.
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- planography — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
- planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
- plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
- plott hound — an American hound having a brindled coat, used especially in hunting bears and wild boars.
- plough into — If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
- pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
- pneumograph — a device for recording graphically the respiratory movements of the thorax.
- pocketphone — a mobile phone
- podophyllin — a resin, occurring as a light brown to greenish amorphous powder, obtained from podophyllum, and used in medicine chiefly as a cathartic and, locally, in the treatment of genital warts.
- pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
- polyphonist — a musical composer of or theorist in polyphony
- polyphonous — Music. polyphonic composition; counterpoint.
- polytechnic — of, relating to, or offering instruction in a variety of industrial arts, applied sciences, or technical subjects: a polytechnic institute.
- pond hockey — ice hockey played on a frozen pond
- pondicherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
- pornography — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
- porphyratin — any of various complex compounds formed of metals and porphyrins
- port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
- port neches — a town in SE Texas.
- potshotting — the act of taking potshots
- powder horn — a powder flask made from the horn of a cow or ox.
- power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
- power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- preluncheon — a light meal before lunch
- pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
- prochronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date earlier than the actual one; prolepsis.
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prohibition — the act of prohibiting.
- prophesying — to foretell or predict.
- prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
- prosobranch — a gastropod mollusc of the subclass Prosobranchia, which includes conches, limpets, abalones, and numerous aquatic and terrestrial snails
- prothrombin — a plasma protein involved in blood coagulation that on activation by factors in the plasma is converted to thrombin.
- pseudophone — an instrument for producing illusory auditory localization by changing the relationship between the receptor and the actual direction of the sound.
- psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
- psychoanal. — psychoanalysis
- psychogenic — having origin in the mind or in a mental condition or process: a psychogenic disorder.
- psychomancy — occult communication between souls or with spirits.