10-letter words containing s, h, a
- patch test — Medicine/Medical. a test for suspected allergy by application to the skin of a patch impregnated with an allergen: allergic reaction is indicated by redness at the site of application.
- patchiness — characterized by or made up of patches.
- patchstand — a small tazza.
- patriarchs — the male head of a family or tribal line.
- patronship — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- peak hours — prime time, busiest period
- peashooter — a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
- pebbledash — to cover with a finish for external walls consisting of small stones embedded in plaster
- penmanship — the art of handwriting; the use of the pen in writing.
- pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
- periphrase — the use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution.
- perishable — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
- pettichaps — any of the warblers that belongs to the family Sylviinae
- petty cash — funds kept for minor expenses
- phalangist — a member of a Lebanese Christian paramilitary organization founded in 1936 and originally based on similar ideas to the fascist Falange in Spain
- phallicism — worship of the phallus, especially as symbolic of power or of the generative principle of nature.
- phantasime — a person who is extremely imaginative and fanciful
- phantasize — to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by about): to fantasize about the ideal job.
- phantasmal — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phantasmic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phantastry — a display of flamboyance or extravagance
- phantomish — resembling or reminiscent of a phantom
- pharisaism — the principles and practices of the Pharisees.
- pharmacist — a person licensed to prepare and dispense drugs and medicines; druggist; apothecary; pharmaceutical chemist.
- phase rule — a law that the number of degrees of freedom in a system in equilibrium is equal to two plus the number of components less the number of phases. Thus, a system of ice, melted ice, and water vapor, being one component and three phases, has no degrees of freedom. Compare variance (def 4).
- pheasantry — a place where pheasants are bred or are kept together
- phenoplast — phenolic resin.
- philistian — an ancient country on the E coast of the Mediterranean.
- phlegmasia — a condition characterized by swelling, pain, and redness
- phosphagen — a high-energy phosphoric ester that serves as a reservoir of phosphate-bond energy, as phosphocreatine in vertebrates and phosphoarginine in invertebrates.
- phosphatic — of, relating to, or containing phosphates: phosphatic slag.
- phossy jaw — gangrenous condition of the lower jawbone
- photoflash — flashbulb.
- photonasty — a nastic movement in response to a change in light intensity
- photophase — a phase of light in a cycle of light and dark
- phototaxis — movement of an organism toward or away from a source of light.
- phragmites — any of several tall grasses of the genus Phragmites, having plumed heads, growing in marshy areas, especially the common reed P. australis (or P. communis).
- phraseless — lacking in a phrase or phrases
- phrenesiac — hypochondriacal
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- phthisical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected by phthisis.
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- physically — relating to the body or its appearance: He is not physically attractive.
- 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.
- phytoplasm — protoplasm of a plant or plants.
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- plate shop — a shop for cold-forming metal plates.
- play house — to pretend in child's play to be grown-up people with the customary household duties
- playschool — preschool, nursery school