11-letter words containing a, p, o, t, h
- scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
- senatorship — the office or position of a senator
- serotherapy — therapy by means of injections of a serum obtained especially from an immune animal.
- ship's boat — a boat for communication between ship and shore
- shoot craps — to play this game
- smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- snapshooter — an amateur photographer, especially one who takes snapshots with a simple camera.
- snapshotted — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
- sociopathic — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- southampton — Henry Wriothesley [rahy-uh ths-lee] /ˈraɪ əθs li/ (Show IPA), 3rd Earl of, 1573–1624, English nobleman, soldier, and patron of writers, including William Shakespeare.
- spathaceous — of the nature of or resembling a spathe.
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- spirochaete — any of various spiral-shaped motile bacteria of the family Spirochaetaceae, certain species, as Treponema, Leptospira, and Borrelia, being pathogenic to humans and other animals, and other species being free-living, saprophytic, or parasitic.
- sponge bath — a bath in which the bather is cleaned by a wet sponge or washcloth dipped in water, without getting into a tub of water.
- sports hall — venue for physical activities
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stephanotis — any vine belonging to the genus Stephanotis, of the milkweed family, having fragrant, waxy, white flowers and leathery leaves.
- stereograph — a single or double picture for a stereoscope.
- stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
- sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
- sycophantic — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- tailhopping — the act of hopping to lift the tails of the skis off the ground while flexing the knees into a crouching position
- taphephobia — an abnormal fear of being buried alive.
- taphonomist — a specialist in taphonomy
- tautophonic — having or repeating the same sound
- technospeak — any abstruse technical jargon
- tenorrhaphy — suture of a tendon.
- tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
- thallophyte — any of the Thallophyta, a plant division in some older classification schemes, comprising algae, fungi, and lichens.
- thanatopsis — a view or contemplation of death.
- thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
- the capitol — the main building of the US Congress
- the proteas — the national cricket team of South Africa
- the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
- theophagous — relating to theophagy or the practice of symbolically consuming the body of God or a god
- theophanous — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
- thermograph — a thermometer that records the temperatures it measures.
- thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
- thorn apple — any poisonous plant belonging to the genus Datura, of the nightshade family, the species of which bear capsules covered with prickly spines, especially the jimson weed, D. stramonium.
- thread rope — cordage 1/2 inch (1.3 cm) or less in thickness.
- thumb piano — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood that vibrate when played with the thumbs.
- tomographic — relating to tomography
- topographer — a specialist in topography.
- topographic — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
- torsiograph — a graph indicating vibrating movements
- total depth — Total depth is the downward length of a well, measured by the length of pipe which is needed to reach the bottom.
- touch paper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- touch plate — a pewter plate belonging to a guild of pewterers and bearing samples of the touchmarks of all pewterers belonging to the guild.