12-letter words containing a, l, p, h, r, t
- poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polyurethane — a thermoplastic polymer containing the group NHCOO: used for padding and insulation in furniture, clothing, and packaging, and in the manufacture of resins for adhesives, elastomers, and fillers.
- postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
- preestablish — to establish beforehand.
- preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
- prickly heat — a cutaneous eruption accompanied by a prickling and itching sensation, due to an inflammation of the sweat glands.
- pro-catholic — of or relating to a Catholic church, especially the Roman Catholic Church.
- procathedral — a church used temporarily as a cathedral.
- prophylactic — defending or protecting from disease or infection, as a drug.
- prothalamion — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
- prothalamium — prothalamion.
- purple heart — a medal awarded for wounds received in action against an enemy or as a direct result of an act of the enemy.
- purple patch — If someone, especially a sports player or team, goes through a purple patch, they are very successful or lucky for a period.
- pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
- pyrocatechol — catechol.
- pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
- scratchplate — a plastic or metal plate attached to the front of a guitar to protect it from pick scratches
- shark patrol — a watch for sharks kept by an aircraft flying over beaches used by swimmers
- shore patrol — (often initial capital letters) members of an organization in the U.S. Navy having police duties similar to those performed by military police. Abbreviation: SP.
- shrimp plant — a small, sprawling shrub, Justicia brandegeana (or Beloperone guttata), of the acanthus family, native to Mexico, having small white flowers protruding from a series of overlapping reddish bracts and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- slipper bath — a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
- sphericality — the state of being a sphere
- sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
- spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- strophiolate — having a strophiole
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- sulphur bath — a curative bath in which the water used has sulphates dissolved in it, especially one in which the water comes from a natural hot spring
- superathlete — a highly accomplished athlete, an exceptional athlete
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
- telegraphese — a style of writing or speaking distinguished by the omissions, abbreviations, and combinations that are characteristic of telegrams, as in “ expect arrive six evening. ”.
- telegraphone — an early magnetic sound-recording device for use with wire, tape, or disks.
- terephthalic — relating to, designating, or derived from terephthalic acid or its derivatives
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- triumphalism — triumphant spirit or character.
- triumphalist — Triumphalist behaviour is behaviour in which politicians or organizations celebrate a victory or a great success, especially when this is intended to upset the people they have defeated.
- triumphantly — having achieved victory or success; victorious; successful.
- trophallaxis — (among social insects) the exchange of nutriments or other secretions between members of a colony.
- water splash — a place where a stream runs over a road
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- wheeltappers — Plural form of wheeltapper.
- white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.