12-letter words containing d, i, p, s, h
- his-lordship — (often initial capital letter) a term of respect used when speaking of or to certain noblemen (usually preceded by his or your).
- horsewhipped — Simple past tense and past participle of horsewhip.
- hospital bed — a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.
- hospitalised — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hospitalized — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- house spider — any largish dark spider of the genus Tegenaria that is common in houses, such as the cardinal spider
- hydrophilous — pollinated by the agency of water.
- hydrosalpinx — A distally blocked Fallopian tube filled with serous or clear fluid.
- hydrotropism — oriented growth in response to water.
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperboloids — Plural form of hyperboloid.
- hyperidrosis — excessive or abnormal sweating
- hypocycloids — Plural form of hypocycloid.
- hypogonadism — diminished hormonal or reproductive functioning in the testes or the ovaries.
- hypohidrosis — abnormally diminished sweating.
- hypostasised — to assume the reality of (an idea, proposition, etc.); hypostatize.
- hypostatised — to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality.
- hypostatized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypostatize.
- hypothesised — to form a hypothesis.
- hypothesized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypothesize.
- impoverished — reduced to poverty.
- in deep shit — excrement; feces.
- in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- in-bond shop — a duty-free shop
- kindred-ship — a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
- landing ship — any of various ships designed for transporting troops and heavy equipment in amphibious warfare, capable of making assault landings directly onto a beach.
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- misapprehend — to misunderstand.
- on shipboard — on board a ship
- onion-shaped — bulb-shaped; shaped like an onion
- opisthodomos — Also called posticum. a small room in the cella of a classical temple, as for a treasury.
- orthopaedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- orthopaedist — Alternative spelling of orthopedist.
- overlordship — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
- parasphenoid — a bone next to the sphenoid bone in the skull of some animals
- pedomorphism — a speeding up of the rate of development, resulting in an adult form that has the appearance of its larval or juvenile ancestor.
- pheidippides — the Athenian runner who secured aid from Sparta in the struggle between the Athenians and the Persians 490 b.c.
- philadelphus — (Philadelphus) king of Pergamum c159–138 b.c.
- philomelides — a king of Lesbos who wrestled and killed every opponent until he himself was defeated by Odysseus.
- phosphamidon — a systemic and contact insecticide, C 1 0 H 1 9 ClNO 5 P, used against beetles, aphids, mites, and other crop pests.
- phosphatidic — of or relating to a phosphatide
- phosphatidyl — an atom or group of atoms containing one or more unpaired electrons derived from a phosphatide
- phospholipid — any of a group of fatty compounds, as lecithin, composed of phosphoric esters, and occurring in living cells.
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- polyhedrosis — an often fatal disease of certain insect larvae or decapod crustaceans, caused by viruses containing DNA.
- polysulphide — any sulphide of a metal containing divalent anions in which there are chains of sulphur atoms, as in the polysulphides of sodium, Na2S2, Na2S3, Na2S4, etc
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- postmidnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
- potting shed — A potting shed is a small building in a garden, in which you can keep things such as seeds or garden tools.