11-letter words containing h, i, p, s, t
- psychotoxic — toxic or harmful to the mind or personality.
- publishment — publication.
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- rh positive — See under Rh factor.
- rh-positive — See under Rh factor.
- rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
- rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
- rocket ship — a rocket-propelled aircraft or spacecraft.
- rope stitch — (in embroidery) a stitch formed from the entwining of stitches.
- rubbish tip — dump for refuse
- sales pitch — promotional talk
- saprophytic — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- saxophonist — musician who plays saxophone
- schizophyte — any of the Schizophyta, a group of organisms comprising the schizomycetes and the schizophyceous algae, characterized by a simple structure and reproduction by simple fission or spores.
- school trip — educational outing
- scotch pine — a pine, Pinus sylvestris, of Eurasia, having a reddish trunk and twisted, bluish-green needles.
- scotophilic — living and flourishing in darkness.
- scotophobin — a peptide isolated from the brains of rats conditioned to avoid darkness, alleged to induce a dark-avoidance response in untrained rats, mice, and other animals.
- scyphistoma — a stage in the life cycle of a jellyfish or other scyphozoan when it is fixed in place and reproduces asexually to produce free-swimming medusas.
- senatorship — the office or position of a senator
- shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
- shinsplints — inflammation of the muscles around the shinbone caused by strenuous exercise
- ship's boat — a boat for communication between ship and shore
- shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
- sleep tight — Sleep well
- slip stitch — a sewing stitch for securing hems, etc, in which only two or three threads of the material are caught up by the needle each time, so that the stitches are nearly invisible from the right side
- slip-stitch — a loose stitch taken between two layers of fabric, as on a facing or hem, so as to be invisible on the right side or outside surface, used in stoating.
- sociopathic — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- sophistries — Sophistries are clever arguments that sound convincing but are in fact false.
- spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
- spaghettini — pasta in the form of long thin strings
- speed light — an electronic flash lamp.
- spendthrift — a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; prodigal.
- sphinx moth — hawk moth.
- sphragistic — of or relating to seals or signet rings.
- spike heath — a Eurasian evergreen shrub, Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, of the heath family, having narrow leaves and bell-shaped, pink flowers, growing in gritty soil.
- spinsterish — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
- 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 hairs — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- split shift — a work period divided into two parts that are separated by an interval longer than a normal rest period
- 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.
- sport shirt — a long- or short-sleeved soft shirt for informal wear by men, having a squared-off shirttail that may be left outside the trousers, usually worn without a tie.
- spot height — the elevation of a certain point.
- sprightless — without any spirit or liveliness
- spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
- staphylinid — rove beetle.
- staphylitis — inflammation of the soft palate or uvula
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development