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13-letter words containing u, p, h, i

  • launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
  • leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
  • leukapheresis — a medical procedure that separates certain leukocytes from the blood, used to collect leukocytes for donation or to remove excessive leukocytes from a patient's blood
  • lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
  • mahabalipuram — a village in NE Tamil Nadu, in SE India: Hindu temples; early Dravidian architecture.
  • microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
  • microphyllous — having microphylls
  • multihospital — comprising or relating to several hospitals
  • multiple shop — chain store.
  • musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
  • mussel shrimp — any of numerous tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans of the subclass Ostracoda, having a shrimplike body enclosed in a hinged bivalve shell.
  • neurosyphilis — Syphilis that involves the central nervous system.
  • niche product — sth of specific or limited consumer interest
  • nonpunishable — Not punishable; of an act, for which no punishment has been authorized; of a person, beyond the reach of punishment.
  • nonunion shop — a shop or business in which the employer fixes terms and conditions of employment unilaterally without recognizing or dealing with a union.
  • ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
  • one-upmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
  • opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
  • outwash plain — Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • parish church — local place of worship
  • patch pumpkin — pumpkin
  • pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
  • pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
  • philo judaeus — c20 b.c.–a.d. c50, Alexandrian Jewish theologian and philosopher.
  • photoacoustic — optoacoustic
  • phylloquinone — vitamin K1.
  • physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
  • phytonutrient — phytochemical.
  • picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
  • pipiwharauroa — a Pacific migratory bird with a metallic green-gold plumage
  • pitch surface — (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.
  • plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
  • poison sumach — an anacardiaceous swamp shrub, Rhus (or Toxicodendron) vernix of the southeastern US, that has greenish-white berries and causes an itching rash on contact with the skin
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • pound-foolish — not handling large sums of money wisely
  • print-through — the unwanted transfer of a recorded magnetic field pattern from one turn of magnetic tape to the preceding or succeeding turn on a reel, causing distortion
  • psammophilous — living or growing in sand
  • pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
  • pseudesthesia — phantom limb pain.
  • pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
  • public school — (in the U.S.) a school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of free public education commonly including primary and secondary schools.
  • pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
  • pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
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