11-letter words containing h, o, p, e, l, s
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- philoctetes — Classical Mythology. a noted archer and squire of Hercules. Bitten by a snake and abandoned on an island because of his festering wound, he was at length brought by the Greeks to Troy, where he recovered and later killed Paris.
- philosopher — a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields.
- philosophes — any of the popular French intellectuals or social philosophers of the 18th century, as Diderot, Rousseau, or Voltaire.
- phraseology — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- phytosterol — Biochemistry. any of various sterols obtained from plants.
- pilot house — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- post-holder — a person who has a particular job or position
- prep school — preparatory school.
- preschooler — a child below the official school starting age, usually a child up to age five.
- priest-hole — a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- psammophile — a plant or animal that thrives in sand
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
- retail shop — a shop which sells goods to individual customers
- reupholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- rhône-alpes — a region of E France: mainly mountainous, rising to the edge of the Massif Central in the west and the French Alps in the east; drained by the Rivers Rhône, Saône, and Isère
- sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
- sclerophyll — Also, sclerophyllous [skleer-uh-fil-uh s] /ˌsklɪər əˈfɪl əs/ (Show IPA). of, relating to, or exhibiting sclerophylly.
- scripholder — a person who owns a scrip or scrips
- scripophile — a person who practices scripophily.
- sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
- shoe polish — wax for making footwear shiny
- shoofly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
- siderophile — (of a cell or tissue) having an affinity for iron.
- sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
- soldiership — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
- solenoglyph — any poisonous snake of the viper family with hollow, paired, erectile fangs
- spermophile — any of various burrowing rodents of the squirrel family, especially of the genus Spermophilus (or Citellus), sometimes sufficiently numerous to do much damage to crops, as the ground squirrels and susliks.
- spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
- spider hole — a foxhole with a camouflaged lid or cover in which a sniper hides
- sulphureous — of the yellow colour of sulphur
- superschool — a large school
- technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
- telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
- telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
- tool pusher — A tool pusher is someone who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig.
- upholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- upholsterer — a person whose business it is to upholster furniture and, sometimes, to furnish and put in place hangings, curtains, carpets, etc.
- upholstress — a female upholsterer
- welsh poppy — a poppy, Meconopsis cambrica, of western Europe, having pale-green, slightly hairy foliage and pale-yellow flowers.
- whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
- whole snipe — the common snipe. See under snipe (def 1).
- worshipable — Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.
- worshipless — lacking worship, not worshipped
- xerophilous — Botany. growing in or adapted to dry, especially dry and hot, regions.