11-letter words containing t, e, l, p, a, h
- phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
- pilot whale — a small, common whale, Globicephala sieboldii, of tropical and temperate seas, having a bulbous head.
- pinch pleat — a narrow pleat that is usually part of a series at the top of curtains.
- pitch plane — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- plane chart — a chart used in plane sailing, in which the lines of latitude and longitude are straight and parallel
- planthopper — any member of a large and varied group of homopterous insects that are related to the leafhoppers and the spittlebugs but rarely damage cultivated plants.
- plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
- platyrrhine — Anthropology. having a broad, flat-bridged nose.
- plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
- plunge bath — a bath large enough to immerse the whole body or to dive into
- pre-ethical — not governed by ethics, or not having an ethical or moral aspect
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- purpleheart — the hard, purplish wood of any of several South American trees belonging to the genus Peltogyne, of the legume family, used for making furniture.
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- retrophilia — a strong liking for things from the past
- sales pitch — promotional talk
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- split-phase — pertaining to or noting a current in one of two parallel circuits that have a single-phase current source but unequal impedances and that produce currents of different phase.
- swash plate — an inclined circular plate on a rotating shaft for transferring force and motion to or from parts reciprocating in a direction parallel to the axis of shaft rotation.
- telegraphed — an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place, especially by means of an electric device consisting essentially of a sending instrument and a distant receiving instrument connected by a conducting wire or other communications channel.
- telegraphic — of or relating to the telegraph.
- telepathist — a student of or believer in telepathy.
- telepathize — to communicate with by telepathy.
- teletherapy — treatment in which the source of therapy is some distance from the body, as certain radiation therapies.
- thallophyte — any of the Thallophyta, a plant division in some older classification schemes, comprising algae, fungi, and lichens.
- the capitol — the main building of the US Congress
- thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
- thesis play — a play that develops or defends a particular thesis.
- thorn apple — any poisonous plant belonging to the genus Datura, of the nightshade family, the species of which bear capsules covered with prickly spines, especially the jimson weed, D. stramonium.
- thunderclap — a crash of thunder.
- thunderpeal — a crash of thunder; thunderclap.
- total depth — Total depth is the downward length of a well, measured by the length of pipe which is needed to reach the bottom.
- touch plate — a pewter plate belonging to a guild of pewterers and bearing samples of the touchmarks of all pewterers belonging to the guild.
- up the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- wheeltapper — (UK, rail transport) Formerly, a railway employee tasked with tapping the train's wheels with a hammer to detect cracks.
- whip-tailed — having a long, slender tail like a whip.
- whitechapel — a district in E London, England.