11-letter words containing t, e, l, p, h
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- phytoalexin — any of a class of plant compounds that accumulate at the site of invading microorganisms and confer resistance to disease.
- phytosterol — Biochemistry. any of various sterols obtained from plants.
- pilot house — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- 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.
- pinchbottle — a bottle with concave sides, as for containing liquor.
- 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.
- pitchblende — a massive variety of uraninite, occurring in black pitchlike masses: a major ore of uranium and radium.
- pith helmet — a hat made of dried pith or cork covered with cloth, worn in the tropics.
- 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
- polytechnic — of, relating to, or offering instruction in a variety of industrial arts, applied sciences, or technical subjects: a polytechnic institute.
- porto velho — a state in W Brazil. 93,815 sq. mi. (242,980 sq. km). Capital: Pôrto Velho.
- post-holder — a person who has a particular job or position
- pre-ethical — not governed by ethics, or not having an ethical or moral aspect
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- priest-hole — a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
- prochlorite — a dark green member of the chlorite group, usually foliated.
- prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- protophloem — the part of the primary phloem that develops first, consisting of narrow, thin-walled cells.
- publishment — publication.
- pulchritude — physical beauty; comeliness.
- pull hitter — a batter who tends to hit the ball to the same side of the field as that on which he or she stands at home plate.
- 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
- reupholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- rope-length — a length of standard climbing rope, normally 50–60m
- sales pitch — promotional talk
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- sleep tight — Sleep well
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- speed light — an electronic flash lamp.
- 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.
- sprightless — without any spirit or liveliness
- steeplebush — the hardhack.
- supersleuth — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
- 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.
- technophile — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
- technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
- 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.