10-letter words containing p, h, o
- porphyroid — a rock resembling porphyry.
- porphyrous — of or relating to porphyry
- port huron — a port in SE Michigan, on the St. Clair River, at the S end of Lake Huron.
- portsmouth — a seaport in S Hampshire, in S England, on the English Channel: chief British naval station.
- possum haw — a shrub, Ilex decidua, of the southeastern U.S., having leaves that are hairy on the upper surface and glossy, red fruit.
- post horse — a horse kept, as at a station on a post road, for the use of persons riding post or for hire by travelers.
- post house — a house or inn keeping post horses.
- post-haste — with the greatest possible speed or promptness: to come to a friend's aid posthaste.
- post-truth — of or relating to a culture in which appeals to the emotions tend to prevail over facts and logical arguments
- postflight — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a flight
- posthumous — arising, occurring, or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award for bravery.
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- pot cheese — cottage cheese.
- pot-holder — a thick piece of material, as a quilted or woven pad, used in handling hot pots and dishes.
- pottymouth — a person who habitually uses foul language
- powerhouse — Electricity. a generating station.
- pre-school — Pre-school is used to describe things relating to the care and education of children before they reach the age when they have to go to school.
- prehension — the act of seizing or grasping.
- prehistory — human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.; history of prehistoric humans.
- preholiday — relating to the period before a holiday
- prehominid — any of the extinct humanlike primates classified in the former family Prehominidae.
- priesthood — the condition or office of a priest.
- princehood — the office or rank of a prince
- print shop — a shop where prints or graphics are sold.
- pro-choice — supporting or advocating legalized abortion.
- pro-growth — favoring or advocating the commercial development or exploitation of land and other natural resources, especially with minimal government restriction and regulation.
- prochloron — any spherical, photosynthetic, prokaryotic microorganism of the genus Prochloron, occurring in subtropical and tropical habitats in symbiosis with various invertebrates, especially marine chordates, proposed as ancestral to the chloroplast of green algae and plants.
- prognathic — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- prohibitor — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- prohormone — the inactive precursor molecule from which a hormone is derived.
- promethean — of or suggestive of Prometheus.
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- promethium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element. Symbol: Pm; atomic number: 61.
- pronephros — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, which becomes the functional kidney of certain primitive fishes.
- prophesied — to foretell or predict.
- prophetess — a woman who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
- prosphoron — an uncut loaf of altar bread before it is consecrated.
- prostheses — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- prosthesis — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- prosthetic — of or relating to an artificial body part or prosthesis: He was fitted for a prosthetic arm.
- prothallus — prothallium.
- protohuman — of, relating to, or resembling extinct hominid populations that had some but not all the features of modern Homo sapiens.
- protonymph — the newly hatched form of various mites
- protophyte — a single-celled plant of the class Protophyta
- prototroph — a microorganism that has the same nutritional requirements as the parent organism. Compare auxotroph.
- psephology — the study of elections.
- psilophyte — any plant that is adapted to grow well in the dry savannah
- psychogony — the development or origin of the soul or mind
- psychogram — a message believed to be written by a spirit or authored by psychical means