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13-letter words containing p, h, o, n, i, a

  • pointy-headed — stupid; idiotic.
  • 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
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • polytechnical — relating to a technical school
  • pompon dahlia — a cultivated variety of the dahlia flower, with a small globelike flower head
  • pontchartrain — Lake, a shallow extension of the Gulf of Mexico in SE Louisiana, N of New Orleans. 41 miles (66 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.
  • power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
  • promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
  • prosthodontia — the branch of dentistry that deals with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and other oral structures by artificial devices.
  • psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
  • psychodynamic — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
  • pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
  • quadriphonics — quadraphony.
  • quota-hopping — (in the EU) the practice of obtaining the right to catch a part of a country's national quota for fish in European waters by buying licences from its fishermen
  • rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
  • scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
  • sheep station — a large sheep farm
  • shop chairman — a unionized employee elected to represent a shop, department, or the like, in dealings with an employer.
  • shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
  • shopping mall — mall (def 1).
  • soup-and-fish — a man's formal evening clothes.
  • soupfin shark — a requiem shark, Galeorhinus zyopterus, inhabiting the Pacific Ocean, valued for its fins, which are used by the Chinese in the preparation of a soup, and for its liver, which is rich in vitamin A.
  • spanish broom — a spiny, often leafless shrub, Genista hispanica, of the legume family, native to southern Europe, having clustered, golden-yellow flowers and hairy pods.
  • spanish onion — a large-sized, mild, succulent onion, often eaten raw.
  • spanish topaz — citrine (def 2).
  • sphagnicolous — growing in moss
  • sphagnologist — a person who studies sphagna
  • spokesmanship — the office or skilful use of the office of spokesman
  • sportsmanship — the character, practice, or skill of a sportsman.
  • standing chop — (in an axemen's competition) a chop with the log standing upright
  • synophthalmia — cyclopia.
  • syphilization — the act of syphilizing
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • technopolitan — of or relating to a place or society dominated by technology
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • thanatophobia — an abnormal fear of death.
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
  • thespian lion — a lion that attacked the flocks of Amphitryon and was killed by Hercules.
  • tip one's hat — to take off, raise, or touch one's hat in salutation
  • unreproaching — not reproaching or blaming
  • upright piano — a piano with an upright rectangular body and with its strings running vertically. Compare spinet (def 1).
  • vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
  • xiphiplastron — the fourth lateral plate of a turtle's plastron
  • zinjanthropus — the genus to which Australopithecus boisei was formerly assigned.
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