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12-letter words containing p, h, o, n

  • phytohormone — hormone (def 3).
  • phytonadione — vitamin K1.
  • 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.
  • pinchcommons — a person who is frugal with food
  • pinturicchio — real name Bernardino di Betto. ?1454–1513, Italian painter of the Umbrian school
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • planographic — the art or technique of printing from a flat surface directly or by offset.
  • plinth block — a plinth interrupting a door or window architrave at the floor or ground level.
  • pneumography — the process of recording the movements of the thorax in respiration.
  • pneumothorax — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • pogonophoran — any member of the small phylum Pogonophora, slender tentacled animals having a tubelike outer covering, living on the deep ocean bottom.
  • 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.
  • poland china — one of an American breed of black hogs having white markings.
  • pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
  • pollyannaish — an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
  • polyethylene — a plastic polymer of ethylene used chiefly for containers, electrical insulation, and packaging.
  • polyphenolic — relating to a polyphenol
  • polyphyodont — having many successive sets of teeth, as fishes and other lower vertebrates
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pornographer — a person who sells, produces, films, photographs, or writes pornography.
  • pornographic — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
  • porphyropsin — a purple pigment occurring in the retina of the eye of certain freshwater fishes
  • port hueneme — a city in S California.
  • posing pouch — a thong that emphasizes the genitals
  • posthypnotic — of or relating to the period after hypnosis.
  • postmidnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
  • potichomania — the art or process of printing or using paint to decorate the inside of a glass vessel
  • potting shed — A potting shed is a small building in a garden, in which you can keep things such as seeds or garden tools.
  • prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
  • prehistorian — an authority on or specialist in prehistory
  • preneolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
  • preschooling — the education of preschool children.
  • prester john — a legendary Christian monk and potentate of the Middle Ages, supposed to have had a kingdom in some remote part of Asia or Africa and associated with fabulous narratives of travel.
  • pro-monarchy — a state or nation in which the supreme power is actually or nominally lodged in a monarch. Compare absolute monarchy, limited monarchy.
  • prochain ami — a next friend or next of kin
  • prochein ami — next friend.
  • promethazine — a phenothiaxine derivative, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 2 S, used for the symptomatic relief of allergies and in the management of motion sickness.
  • prophesyings — gatherings held to expound the prophecies of the Scriptures
  • propoxyphene — Pharmacology. a nonnarcotic analgesic, C 2 2 H 2 9 NO 2 .
  • prostanthera — any bush of the Australian genus Prostanthera, with red or white flowers and strongly scented leaves
  • prothalamion — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • prothonotary — a chief clerk or official in certain courts of law.
  • protosynthex — A query system for English text.
  • prototherian — belonging or pertaining to the group Prototheria, comprising the monotremes.
  • pruning hook — an implement with a hooked blade, used for pruning vines, branches, etc.
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