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10-letter words containing p, h, o, t, r, a

  • parrotfish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
  • parthenope — a siren, who drowned herself when Odysseus evaded the lure of the sirens' singing. Her body was said to have been cast ashore at what became Naples
  • pastorship — the position, authority, or office of a pastor.
  • patch cord — a short cord with a plug at each end, or a plug at one end and a pair of clips at the other, used for temporarily connecting two pieces of equipment or signal paths.
  • patchboard — a device with a large number of sockets into which electrical plugs can be inserted to form many different temporary circuits: used in telephone exchanges, computer systems, etc
  • patronship — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
  • peashooter — a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
  • pentachord — a series of five consecutive notes of a scale
  • petrograph — petroglyph.
  • petrolhead — a person who is excessively interested in or is devoted to travelling by car
  • phallocrat — a male who assumes authority over females due to his maleness
  • photodrama — photoplay.
  • photograph — a picture produced by photography.
  • photomural — a wall decoration consisting of a very large photograph or photographs.
  • physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
  • pictograph — pictogram
  • prognathic — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • promethean — of or suggestive of Prometheus.
  • prothallus — prothallium.
  • protohuman — of, relating to, or resembling extinct hominid populations that had some but not all the features of modern Homo sapiens.
  • pyrrophyta — a phylum in the kingdom Protista comprising the dinoflagellates and cryptomonads.
  • pythagoras — c582–c500 b.c, Greek philosopher, mathematician, and religious reformer.
  • radiophoto — an image created by radio waves rather than light
  • rhapsodist — a person who rhapsodizes.
  • rhodoplast — a plastid found in red algae, containing red pigment as well as chlorophyll
  • saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • saprotroph — any organism, esp a fungus or bacterium, that lives and feeds on dead organic matter
  • smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
  • stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
  • stylograph — a fountain pen in which the writing point is a fine, hollow tube instead of a nib.
  • tachograph — a recording tachometer.
  • thesprotia — an ancient coastal district in SW Epirus.
  • tomography — a machine for making an x-ray of a selected plane of the body.
  • top-hamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.
  • topography — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
  • touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
  • trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
  • trophesial — involving or relating to trophesy
  • tryptophan — an essential amino acid, (C 8 H 6 N)CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, colorless, crystalline, and aromatic, released from proteins by tryptic digestion and a precursor of serotonin. Symbol: W. Abbreviation: Trp;
  • typography — the art or process of printing with type.
  • vectograph — a technology that uses special glasses to see a photographic image between two plastic sheets as three dimensional
  • zoanthropy — a mental disorder in which one believes oneself to be an animal.
  • zootherapy — the use of therapeutic drugs derived from animals
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