12-letter words containing h, i, p, o, t
- toxicophobia — an intense fear of poisoning
- toxophilitic — of or relating to a person who loves archery
- trapshooting — the sport of shooting at clay pigeons hurled into the air from a trap.
- trephination — a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- trichinopoly — a city in central Tamil Nadu, in S India, on the Kaveri River.
- trichophyton — a parasitic fungus belonging to the genus Trichophyton that can infect human skin, hair, and nails
- trichopteran — trichopterous.
- trichopteron — trichopteran.
- trimethoprim — a synthetic crystalline compound, C 11 H 18 N 4 O 3 , usually combined with a sulfonamide as an antibiotic preparation in the treatment of urinary tract infections and pneumocystis pneumonia.
- triphosphate — a salt derived from triphosphoric acid.
- trophallaxis — (among social insects) the exchange of nutriments or other secretions between members of a colony.
- trophobiosis — the exchange of nourishment between organisms in a symbiotic relationship
- trophobiotic — involving, belonging or relating to trophobiosis
- trophotactic — of or relating to trophotaxis
- trophotropic — of or relating to trophotropism
- trophy child — anything taken in war, hunting, competition, etc., especially when preserved as a memento; spoil, prize, or award.
- tropophilous — adapted to a climate characterized by marked environmental changes.
- typhoid mary — Mary ("Typhoid Mary") 1869?–1938, U.S. cook, born in Ireland: known immune carrier of typhoid fever who infected many with the disease, institutionalized in 1914.
- typographist — a person skilled in the art of typography
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unprohibited — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- victory ship — a fast, turbine-powered cargo ship of World War II, having a capacity of about 11,000 dead-weight tons.
- virtuosoship — the condition of being a virtuoso; the activities of a virtuoso
- viscountship — the position of being a viscount
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- whipping top — a spinning top that is set going by striking it with a toy whip so that the lash curls around it before pulling it away quickly
- whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
- white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
- white potato — potato (def 1).
- white sapote — a tropical American tree, Casimiroa edulis, of the rue family, having greenish, inconspicuous flowers and tomatolike fleshy fruit that is yellow on the inside and gray or yellowish-green on the outside.
- with-profits — A with-profits savings scheme or financial plan is one in which the people who put money into the scheme receive extra money each year based on how successful the investment has been.
- xanthopterin — a yellow pigment, C6H5N5O2, found in some butterfly or moth wings or in the urine of mammals