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12-letter words containing a, t, h, e, o, p

  • chart topper — a singer, band or video that comes top in the charts
  • cheiloplasty — plastic surgery of the lip.
  • chemotherapy — Chemotherapy is the treatment of disease using chemicals. It is often used in treating cancer.
  • chiropterans — Plural form of chiropteran.
  • chlorapatite — (mineral) A variety of apatite containing chloride instead of fluoride.
  • cometography — the scientific description and recording of comets
  • compost heap — an outdoor pile of compostabale material that degrades into compost
  • crosspatches — Plural form of crosspatch.
  • crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
  • cycloheptane — (organic compound) An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C7H14; a volatile inflammable liquid.
  • dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
  • dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
  • detectaphone — a device for listening secretly to others' telephone conversations
  • deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
  • diphosphates — a pyrophosphate.
  • ectypography — a form of etching or engraving in which the design is produced in relief
  • electrograph — A machine used in gravure printing.
  • enantiomorph — Each of two crystalline or other geometric forms that are mirror images of each other.
  • enantiopathy — the treatment of disease by opposites; allopathy
  • encompasseth — Archaic third-person singular form of encompass.
  • enhypostasia — personalities existing in union (Jesus Christ and God the Son)
  • enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
  • enophthalmos — The posterior displacement of the eyeball within the orbit due to changes in the volume of the orbit (bone) relative to its contents (the eyeball and orbital fat), or loss of function of the orbitalis muscle.
  • enthesopathy — (pathology) A disorder of entheses (bone attachments).
  • entomophobia — Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods.
  • epanorthosis — (rhetoric) A rhetorical device or element in which a speaker or writer retracts a word that has been spoken and substitutes a stronger or more suitable word; often done for emphasis or sarcasm.
  • epithalamion — A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
  • epitheliomas — Plural form of epithelioma.
  • erythropenia — A decrease in the number of erythrocytes, associated with anemia.
  • esophagotomy — (surgery) The operation of making an incision into the esophagus for the purpose of removing an obstruction.
  • ethnographer — One who practices ethnography.
  • ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
  • eutrophicate — (ecology, intransitive) To become eutrophic.
  • exophthalmia — (medicine) The protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.
  • exophthalmic — Having or characterized by protruding eyes.
  • exophthalmos — Abnormal protrusion of the eyeball or eyeballs.
  • exophthalmus — Alt form exophthalmos.
  • feldspathoid — Also, feldspathoidal. of or relating to a group of minerals similar in chemical composition to certain feldspars except for a lower silica content.
  • feldspathose — (mineralogy) Containing feldspar.
  • galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
  • gametophores — Plural form of gametophore.
  • gametophytes — Plural form of gametophyte.
  • gametophytic — (botany) Of or pertaining to a gametophyte plant.
  • gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
  • gopher state — Minnesota (used as a nickname).
  • graph theory — the branch of mathematics dealing with linear graphs.
  • grapple shot — a grapnellike projectile fired from a gun and used as a hold for the end of a line in rescue operations or in kedging.
  • haemoprotein — Alternative spelling of hemoprotein.
  • have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
  • heartstopper — something so frightening or emotionally gripping as to make one's heart seem to stop beating: We didn't crash, but it was a heartstopper.
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