11-letter words containing h, e, a, p, s, t
- philatelist — the collecting of stamps and other postal matter as a hobby or an investment.
- phonematics — phonemics.
- phonetastic — (communications) A CTI product from Callware. Phonetastic employs if-then rules and customer records to tell those receiving calls who is calling (based on ANI and DNIS) and to determine how the call should be routed, e.g. to a certain sales representative or to the general sales department; receive high-priority treatment; receive a fax-back, etc.
- phosphatase — any of several classes of esterases of varying specificity that catalyze the hydrolysis of phosphoric esters.
- phosphatide — phospholipid.
- phosphatize — to treat with phosphates.
- phosphorate — Also, phosphorize. Chemistry. to combine or impregnate with phosphorus.
- photo essay — a group of photographs, usually with supplementary text, that conveys a unified story and is published as a book or as a feature in a magazine or newspaper.
- photostated — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- pirate ship — vessel sailed by sea robbers
- 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.
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- psammophyte — a plant that grows in sand or sandy soil.
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- sales pitch — promotional talk
- 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.
- sex therapy — treatment of sexual disorders that have psychological causes, employing psychiatric counseling, behavior modification, and education.
- shag carpet — shag pile carpet
- sheep track — a pathway made by and used by sheep, often in rocky or mountainous terrain, and sometimes followed by hikers
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- 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.
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- spaghettini — pasta in the form of long thin strings
- spathaceous — of the nature of or resembling a spathe.
- spatterdash — a long gaiter to protect the trousers or stockings, as from mud while riding.
- speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
- spermaphyte — the placenta of a plant
- spermatheca — a small sac or cavity in female or hermaphroditic invertebrates used to store sperm for fertilizing eggs, as in the queen bee.
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- spike heath — a Eurasian evergreen shrub, Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, of the heath family, having narrow leaves and bell-shaped, pink flowers, growing in gritty soil.
- 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.
- split-phase — pertaining to or noting a current in one of two parallel circuits that have a single-phase current source but unequal impedances and that produce currents of different phase.
- 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.
- spreadsheet — Accounting. a worksheet that is arranged in the manner of a mathematical matrix and contains a multicolumn analysis of related entries for easy reference on a single sheet.
- star-shaped — of the shape of or like a star.
- stench trap — a trap in a sewer that by means of a water seal prevents the upward passage of foul-smelling gases
- stenography — the art of writing in shorthand.
- step change — A step change is a sudden or major change in the way that something happens or the way that someone behaves.
- 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.