11-letter words containing a, t, h, e, o, p
- plectognath — belonging to the Plectognathi, a group or order of fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick, often spiny, scaleless skin, and including the filefish, globefish, puffer, and triggerfish.
- pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
- pointy-head — stupid; idiotic.
- poppet head — the framework above a mining shaft that supports the winding mechanism
- porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
- post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
- postharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- pouched rat — pocket gopher.
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- prophetical — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- psammophyte — a plant that grows in sand or sandy soil.
- pythagorean — of or relating to Pythagoras, to his school, or to his doctrines.
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- retinopathy — any diseased condition of the retina, especially one that is noninflammatory.
- retrophilia — a strong liking for things from the past
- scotch tape — clear adhesive tape
- scotch-tape — to fasten or mend with Scotch tape.
- senatorship — the office or position of a senator
- serotherapy — therapy by means of injections of a serum obtained especially from an immune animal.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- taphephobia — an abnormal fear of being buried alive.
- 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.
- 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.
- topographer — a specialist in topography.
- 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.
- typographer — a person skilled or engaged in typography.
- xanthophore — a chromatophore containing a yellow pigment, as in some cold-blooded animals.