12-letter words containing p, h, r, a, t, y
- odontography — a treatise regarding the teeth
- palatography — a technique for observing the position of the tongue in relation to the palate during articulation, especially by placing powder or dye on the palate and then noting the area from which it has been removed by the contact of the tongue with the palate during the production of a speech sound.
- para rhatany — See under rhatany (def 1).
- parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
- pastry brush — a small, flat brush for coating pastry with butter, egg, etc.
- pearly white — white and lustrous as a pearl.
- pentahydrate — a hydrate that contains five molecules of water, as potassium molybdate, KMoO 4 ⋅5H 2 O.
- pentahydroxy — (of a molecule) containing five hydroxyl groups.
- phanerophyte — a tree or shrub that bears its perennating buds more than 25 cm above the level of the soil
- pharyngotomy — surgical incision into the pharynx
- philanthropy — altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons, by endowment of institutions of learning and hospitals, and by generosity to other socially useful purposes.
- phototherapy — treatment of disease, especially of the skin, by means of light rays.
- phreatophyte — a long-rooted plant that absorbs its water from the water table or the soil above it.
- phylacteries — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
- phytographer — a botanist involved with plant description
- phytophthora — any of a group of fungi of the genus Phytophthora, which cause a serious plant disease, especially affecting apple and pear trees and potatoes.
- phytotherapy — the use of plants and plant products for medicinal purposes
- play therapy — a form of psychotherapy used chiefly with children, in which patients act out situations in play that are expressive of their emotional problems, conflicts, etc.
- play through — to pass another foursome or group with their permission, while playing a round of golf
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- 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.
- praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- prophylactic — defending or protecting from disease or infection, as a drug.
- prothonotary — a chief clerk or official in certain courts of law.
- psychiatrist — a physician who practices psychiatry.
- pyrithiamine — an antivitamin that causes thiamine deficiency
- pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
- pyrocatechol — catechol.
- pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
- radiotherapy — treatment of disease by means of x-rays or of radioactive substances.
- rhythmopoeia — the art or process of composing, for example, music or poetry rhythmically
- saprophytism — living and feeding on dead organic matter
- scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
- search party — a group of persons conducting an organized search for someone or something lost or hidden.
- spatiography — the study of the characteristics of space beyond the atmosphere, including the mapping of the movements of celestial bodies and the recording of electrical, magnetic, and gravitational effects, especially those likely to affect missiles and spacecraft.
- spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
- sphericality — the state of being a sphere
- starch syrup — glucose (def 2).
- starch-syrup — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
- stratigraphy — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- tachyphrasia — a communication disorder involving rapid, unintelligible speech
- technography — the description and study of the arts and sciences in their geographical and ethnic distribution and historical development.
- thermography — a technique for imitating an embossed appearance, as on business cards, stationery, or the like, by dusting printed areas with a powder that adheres only to the wet ink, and fusing the ink and powder to the paper by heat.
- tracheophyte — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
- tracheoscopy — examination of the interior of the trachea, as with a laryngoscope.
- trachypterus — a dealfish or ribbonfish