12-letter words containing e, u, p, h, i
- kidney punch — an illegal punch in the lower back.
- laureateship — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
- lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- luteotrophic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- meet up with — see socially
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- necrophilous — displaying a preference for dead tissue, esp of certain bacteria and insects
- neuropathies — Plural form of neuropathy.
- neuropathist — a specialist in treating diseases of the nervous system; a neurologist
- neurotrophic — of or relating to the effect of nerves on the nutritive processes.
- neutrophiles — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- neutrophilic — (of a cell or its contents) readily stained only by neutral dyes.
- neutrosophic — Neutrosophy
- nucleophiles — Plural form of nucleophile.
- nucleophilic — of or relating to electron contribution in covalent bonding (opposed to electrophilic).
- oreopithecus — a genus of fossil primate from the Miocene coal deposits of Italy, formerly considered to be a possible hominid.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- panhellenium — an institution founded by the Roman Emperor Hadrian idealizing Greece's Classical history
- parish house — a building used by a church chiefly for administrative and social purposes.
- perichaetium — a leafy cluster (bracts) around the base of the reproductive organs of some plants, predominantly mosses
- perinephrium — the capsule of connective tissue that envelops the kidney.
- perionychium — the epidermis surrounding the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
- peritrichous — (of bacteria) having a uniform distribution of flagella over the body surface.
- persulphuric — denoting a type of acid
- pharmaceutic — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
- philadelphus — (Philadelphus) king of Pergamum c159–138 b.c.
- phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
- photoinduced — induced by light.
- picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
- picture show — motion picture.
- picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
- pig launcher — A pig launcher is a device which starts a pig moving without interrupting flow.
- pinch runner — a player sent into a game to replace a base runner.
- pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
- 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
- poughkeepsie — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- preauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- public house — British. a tavern.
- pudding-head — a stupid person
- pumpkin head — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
- put it there — You say 'Put it there!' to someone when you are asking them to shake hands with you, because you agree with them or want to congratulate them.
- ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
- shrimp sauce — a sauce made from shrimps
- sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
- skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
- soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
- spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.