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

  • dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
  • dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
  • deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
  • diastrophism — the process of movement and deformation of the earth's crust that gives rise to large-scale features such as continents, ocean basins, and mountains
  • dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
  • draughtproof — That prevents the access of draughts.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • erythropenia — A decrease in the number of erythrocytes, associated with anemia.
  • ethnographer — One who practices ethnography.
  • ethnographic — Relating to ethnography.
  • eutrophicate — (ecology, intransitive) To become eutrophic.
  • factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
  • fractography — the study of fractures or cracks in a material, esp metal, in order to predict or identify the cause of a failure in a structure
  • galactophore — a galactophorous duct.
  • gametophores — Plural form of gametophore.
  • glyptography — the description or study of engraved gems or other stones.
  • gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
  • gopher state — Minnesota (used as a nickname).
  • gramophonist — a person who uses a gramophone
  • graph theory — the branch of mathematics dealing with linear graphs.
  • graphologist — the study of handwriting, especially when regarded as an expression of the writer's character, personality, abilities, etc.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
  • heptahedrons — Plural form of heptahedron.
  • hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
  • herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
  • heterography — spelling different from that in current use.
  • heterophobia — Fear or resentment of what is different.
  • heterophoria — a latent strabismus of one or both eyes.
  • heteroplasia — the replacement of normal cells by abnormal cells, as in cancer.
  • heteroplasty — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
  • heteropteran — A bug of the group Heteroptera.
  • heterotopias — Plural form of heterotopia.
  • hierophantic — (in ancient Greece) an official expounder of rites of worship and sacrifice.
  • hippocentaur — Centaur.
  • histographic — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
  • holophrastic — using or consisting of a single word that functions as a phrase or sentence.
  • homeotherapy — therapy for a disease by means of an agent that is similar to but not identical with the causative agent of the disease.
  • host adaptor — SCSI adaptor
  • housepainter — A professional painter of houses.
  • hyannis port — a town in SE Massachusetts, on Nantucket Sound: summer resort.
  • hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
  • hydrotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the curative use of water.
  • hymenopteran — hymenopterous.
  • hyperchaotic — Of or pertaining to hyperchaos.
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