10-letter words containing a, p, o, t, h
- polymathic — a person of great learning in several fields of study; polyhistor.
- poppethead — a tailstock or headstock of a lathe.
- post-haste — with the greatest possible speed or promptness: to come to a friend's aid posthaste.
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- prognathic — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- promethean — of or suggestive of Prometheus.
- prothallus — prothallium.
- protohuman — of, relating to, or resembling extinct hominid populations that had some but not all the features of modern Homo sapiens.
- psychopath — a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
- push about — to bully; keep telling (a person) what to do in a bossy manner
- pyrrophyta — a phylum in the kingdom Protista comprising the dinoflagellates and cryptomonads.
- pythagoras — c582–c500 b.c, Greek philosopher, mathematician, and religious reformer.
- radiophoto — an image created by radio waves rather than light
- rhapsodist — a person who rhapsodizes.
- rhodoplast — a plastid found in red algae, containing red pigment as well as chlorophyll
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- saprotroph — any organism, esp a fungus or bacterium, that lives and feeds on dead organic matter
- scatophagy — the act of eating dung or excrement
- shape note — a musical note in which the degree of the scale is indicated by the shape of the note's head.
- shapetools — (tool, programming) A code management system for Unix from The Technical University of Berlin.
- sitophobia — abnormal aversion to food.
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- smoothpate — a bald person with a smooth head
- sociopathy — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- soul patch — a small patch of facial hair below the centre of the lower lip and above the chin
- south pass — a mountain pass in SW Wyoming, cutting through the Rocky Mountains at the S of the Wind River range: part of the Oregon Trail.
- space shot — the launch of a spacecraft and its subsequent flight in space
- spatchcock — a fowl that has been dressed and split open for grilling.
- splash out — If you splash out on something, especially on a luxury, you buy it even though it costs a lot of money.
- staphyloma — a condition in which the sclera or cornea of the eye projects outwards due to inflammation
- stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
- stylograph — a fountain pen in which the writing point is a fine, hollow tube instead of a nib.
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- sweat-shop — a shop employing workers at low wages, for long hours, and under poor conditions.
- tachograph — a recording tachometer.
- tachypnoea — excessively rapid respiration.
- tautophony — the repetition of a sound
- teichopsia — a temporary visual impairment associated with migraine
- theophanic — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
- theophobia — morbid fear or hatred of God
- thesprotia — an ancient coastal district in SW Epirus.
- tocophobia — an abnormal fear of giving birth or becoming pregnant
- tomography — a machine for making an x-ray of a selected plane of the body.
- toothpaste — a dentifrice in the form of paste.
- top-hamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.
- top-hatted — wearing a top hat
- tophaceous — a calcareous concretion formed in the soft tissue about a joint, in the pinna of the ear, etc., especially in gout; a gouty deposit.
- topography — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
- topophilia — the love of or emotional connections with place or physical environment
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.