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10-letter words containing s, p, h, a

  • paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
  • pale horse — a representation of Death, as in literature or the Bible.
  • panatheism — the belief that because there is no God, nothing can properly be termed sacred or holy.
  • pansophism — a claim or pretension to pansophy.
  • pansophist — someone with universal knowledge
  • pantheress — a female panther
  • paper shop — A paper shop is a shop that sells newspapers and magazines, and also things such as tobacco, sweets, and cards.
  • paraphasia — a defect of speech in which the normal flow of words is interrupted by inappropriate words and phrases
  • paraphasic — of, resembling, or exhibiting paraphasia
  • paraphrase — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
  • paraphrast — a person who paraphrases.
  • paraphyses — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
  • paraphysis — one of the erect, sterile filaments often growing among the reproductive organs in many fungi, mosses, and ferns.
  • parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
  • parathesis — the placing of grammatically parallel words or phrases together; apposition
  • parischane — a parish
  • 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.
  • pas marche — a marching step.
  • paschal ii — (Ranieri) died 1118, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1099–1118.
  • pasigraphy — a system of writing intelligible to persons of all languages; a universal language
  • passphrase — (operating system)   A string of words and characters that you type in to authenticate yourself. Passphrases differ from passwords only in length. Passwords are usually short - six to ten characters. Passphrases are usually much longer - up to 100 characters or more. Modern passphrases were invented by Sigmund N. Porter in 1982. Their greater length makes passphrases more secure. Phil Zimmermann's popular encryption program PGP, for example, requires you to make up a passphrase that you then must enter whenever you sign or decrypt messages.
  • pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
  • pastorship — the position, authority, or office of a pastor.
  • 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
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