10-letter words containing h, o, t, s, p, r
- oophoritis — inflammation of an ovary, usually combined with an inflammation of the Fallopian tubes; ovaritis.
- orthoepist — the study of correct pronunciation.
- orthoprism — a prism which has faces parallel to its vertical axis
- orthoptics — a method of exercising the eye and its muscles in order to cure strabismus or improve vision.
- orthoptist — One who practices orthoptics.
- orthoscope — (formerly) an instrument for examining the internal structures of the eye through a layer of water that neutralizes the refraction of the cornea.
- parrotfish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
- pastorship — the position, authority, or office of a pastor.
- patronship — a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- peashooter — a tube through which dried peas, beans, or small pellets are blown, used as a toy.
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- phosphuret — a phosphate
- photostory — photo essay.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.
- pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- polo shirt — a short-sleeved, pullover sport shirt, usually of cotton or cottonlike knit, with a round neckband or a turnover collar.
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- polyhistor — a person of great and varied learning.
- portsmouth — a seaport in S Hampshire, in S England, on the English Channel: chief British naval station.
- post horse — a horse kept, as at a station on a post road, for the use of persons riding post or for hire by travelers.
- post-truth — of or relating to a culture in which appeals to the emotions tend to prevail over facts and logical arguments
- prehistory — human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.; history of prehistoric humans.
- priesthood — the condition or office of a priest.
- print shop — a shop where prints or graphics are sold.
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- prophetess — a woman who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration.
- prostheses — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- prosthesis — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- prosthetic — of or relating to an artificial body part or prosthesis: He was fitted for a prosthetic arm.
- prothallus — prothallium.
- pythagoras — c582–c500 b.c, Greek philosopher, mathematician, and religious reformer.
- rhapsodist — a person who rhapsodizes.
- rhodoplast — a plastid found in red algae, containing red pigment as well as chlorophyll
- saprophyte — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- saprotroph — any organism, esp a fungus or bacterium, that lives and feeds on dead organic matter
- scunthorpe — a town in E England, in North Lincolnshire unitary authority, Lincolnshire: developed rapidly after the discovery of local iron ore in the late 19th century; iron and steel industries have declined. Pop: 72 660 (2001)
- shop front — A shop front is the outside part of a shop which faces the street, including the door and windows.
- shop right — the right of an employer to use an employee's invention without compensating the employee for the use, in cases where the invention was made at the place of and during the hours of employment.
- shopfitter — a worker who makes and installs fittings for commercial premises
- shoplifter — a person who steals goods from the shelves or displays of a retail store while posing as a customer.
- shreveport — a city in NW Louisiana, on the Red River.
- smartphone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- spherocyte — an abnormal blood cell
- spirochete — 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.
- sporophyte — the form of a plant in the alternation of generations that produces asexual spores.
- sport fish — a type of fish that is prized for the sport it gives the angler in its capture rather than for its value as food.
- stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
- stepmother — the wife of one's father by a later marriage.
- strip show — a form of entertainment in which one or more people take off their clothes in a titillating and erotic manner, often to music
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds