11-letter words containing a, p, t, h
- 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.
- toxiphobiac — a person who suffers from toxicophobia
- traineeship — the state or position of being a trainee.
- traitorship — a person who betrays another, a cause, or any trust.
- transhipper — a person who tranships
- transphobia — unreasoning hostility, aversion, etc., toward transgender people.
- trophically — of or relating to nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.
- trophoblast — the layer of extraembryonic ectoderm that chiefly nourishes the embryo or develops into fetal membranes with nutritive functions.
- trophoplasm — the cytoplasm that is involved in the nutritive processes of a cell
- tulip chair — an armchair designed by Eero Saarinen in 1956, having a contoured seat of molded plastic supported by a slender, stemlike pedestal of plastic-covered cast metal that terminates in a large, flat, round foot.
- typographer — a person skilled or engaged in typography.
- typographia — matter relating to printing or printers
- typographic — of or relating to typography.
- unpathwayed — unpathed, pathless
- up the ante — to increase the costs, risks, or considerations involved in taking an action or reaching a conclusion
- up the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- up-gathered — to gather up or together: to upgather information.
- utnapishtim — the favorite of the gods, who survived the great flood and became immortal.
- vapour bath — the act of bathing in vapour, formerly believed to have medicinal benefits
- watchspring — the main spring inside a watch
- watchstraps — Plural form of watchstrap.
- water nymph — a nymph of the water, as a naiad, a Nereid, or an Oceanid.
- weather map — a map or chart showing weather conditions over a wide area at a particular time, compiled from simultaneous observations at different places.
- werepanther — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can change between panther and human form.
- westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- wheeltapper — (UK, rail transport) Formerly, a railway employee tasked with tapping the train's wheels with a hammer to detect cracks.
- whip-tailed — having a long, slender tail like a whip.
- white aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
- white pages — A directory service for locating individuals by name (by analogy with the telephone directory). The Internet supports several databases that contain basic information about users, such as electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers and postal addresses. These databases can be searched to get information about particular individuals. See Knowbot, Netfind, whois, X.500, finger.
- white paper — paper bleached white.
- white space — the unprinted area of a piece of printing, as of a poster or newspaper page, or of a portion of a piece of printing, as of an advertisement; blank space: White space is as effective in a layout as type.
- whitechapel — a district in E London, England.
- with a bump — If someone comes down to earth with a bump, they suddenly start recognizing unpleasant facts after a period of time when they have not been doing this.
- x-ray photo — a picture produced by exposing photographic film to X-rays
- xanthophore — a chromatophore containing a yellow pigment, as in some cold-blooded animals.
- xanthophyll — lutein (def 1).
- xiphisterna — Plural form of xiphisternum.
- xiphocostal — Pertaining to the xiphoid process and the ribs.
- zoanthropic — relating to or displaying zoanthropy