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14-letter words containing p, h

  • diphthongizing — Present participle of diphthongize.
  • directed graph — (digraph) A graph with one-way edges. See also directed acyclic graph.
  • discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
  • discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
  • dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
  • displenishment — the act of displenishing
  • dolichocephaly — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
  • dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
  • drag parachute — drogue parachute (def 2).
  • drag-parachute — Also called drogue. a small parachute that deploys first in order to pull a larger parachute from its pack.
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • drophead coupé — two-door car with a folding roof and sloping back
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
  • dutch cupboard — a buffet with open upper shelves.
  • duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
  • east northport — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
  • ecocatastrophe — a disaster caused by changes in the environment.
  • edaphic climax — a localized climax community that may differ from the surrounding climax vegetation by reason of slightly differing soil type, exposure to sun and wind, drainage, etc.
  • edriophthalmic — edriophthalmous
  • eggshell paint — paint that has a slight sheen
  • ego psychology — the study of the adaptive and mediating functions of the ego and their role in personality development and emotional disorder
  • electrophorese — (biochemistry) To carry out electrophoresis on something.
  • electrotherapy — The use of electric currents passed through the body to stimulate nerves and muscles, chiefly in the treatment of various forms of paralysis.
  • elephant grass — any of various stout tropical grasses or grasslike plants, esp Pennisetum purpureum, and Typha elephantina, a type of reed mace
  • elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
  • elephant's-ear — any aroid plant of the genus Colocasia, of tropical Asia and Polynesia, having very large heart-shaped leaves: grown for ornament and for their edible tubers
  • elevator pitch — an informal an extremely short and pithy version of a sales pitch or business plan
  • empathetically — In an empathetic way.
  • emphaticalness — The quality of being emphatic; emphasis.
  • emprosthotonos — Alternative form of emprosthotonus.
  • emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
  • enantiomorphic — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting enantiomorphism.
  • encephalitides — Plural form of encephalitis.
  • encephalitogen — an agent that is able to produce encephalitis
  • encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.
  • encephalograph — any other apparatus used to produce an encephalogram
  • encephalopathy — A disease in which the functioning of the brain is affected by some agent or condition (such as viral infection or toxins in the blood).
  • endocrinopathy — any disease due to disorder of the endocrine system
  • endophenotypes — Plural form of endophenotype.
  • enigmatography — the composing or collection of enigmas
  • epenthetically — In an epenthetic manner; by means of epenthesis.
  • ephemeral port — (networking)   A TCP or UDP port number that is automatically allocated from a predefined range by the TCP/IP stack software, typically to provide the port for the client end of a client-server communication.
  • ephemeris time — time that is based on the orbit of the earth around the sun rather than the axial rotation of the earth, one ephemeris second being 1⁄31 556 925.9747 of the tropical year 1900. It was used from 1960 to 1983 as an astronomical timescale but has been replaced by terrestrial dynamical time and barycentric dynamic time
  • ephemeropteran — of or relating to the Ephemeroptera
  • epistolography — the art, or practice, of letter-writing
  • epithelialized — Simple past tense and past participle of epithelialize.
  • epithelisation — Alternative form of epithelization.
  • epithelization — Alternative form of epithelialization.
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