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12-letter words containing h, p, s

  • sycophantize — to act the sycophant
  • sympathizing — to be in sympathy or agreement of feeling; share in a feeling (often followed by with).
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • synchroscope — an instrument for determining the difference in phase between two related motions, as those of two aircraft engines or two electric generators.
  • tachyphrasia — a communication disorder involving rapid, unintelligible speech
  • talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
  • tech support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • telegraphese — a style of writing or speaking distinguished by the omissions, abbreviations, and combinations that are characteristic of telegrams, as in “ expect arrive six evening. ”.
  • teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
  • tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
  • the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
  • the dustheap — obscurity or oblivion
  • the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
  • the olympics — the Olympic Games
  • the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
  • the passions — feeling, as opposed to reason
  • the pictures — a cinema or film show
  • the pointers — the two brightest stars in the Plough (Dubhe and Merak), which lie in the direction pointing towards the Pole Star and are therefore used to locate it
  • the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
  • the prophets — one of the three major divisions of the Jewish Holy Scriptures, following the Pentateuch and preceding the Hagiographa
  • the psalmist — King David, to whom all or certain of the Psalms are variously attributed
  • the scorpion — the constellation Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac
  • the wop-wops — the backblocks; the back of beyond
  • the-persians — a tragedy (472 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • the-pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • theophrastus — 372?–287 b.c, Greek philosopher.
  • therapeutics — a therapeutic substance.
  • therapeutist — a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.
  • thermosiphon — an arrangement of siphon tubes that enables water in a heating apparatus to circulate by means of convection.
  • thermosphere — the region of the upper atmosphere in which temperature increases continuously with altitude, encompassing essentially all of the atmosphere above the mesosphere.
  • thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
  • third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
  • thomas paine — Albert Bigelow [big-uh-loh] /ˈbɪg əˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1861–1937, U.S. author and editor.
  • thoracoscope — an instrument used for examining the pleural cavity
  • to play host — If a person or country plays host to an event or an important visitor, they host the event or the visit.
  • to talk shop — If you say that people are talking shop, you mean that they are talking about their work, and this is boring for other people who do not do the same work.
  • topstitching — decorative stitching, usually near and parallel to a seam, sewn so as to be visible on the right side of a garment, shoe, belt, etc.
  • tracheoscopy — examination of the interior of the trachea, as with a laryngoscope.
  • trachypterus — a dealfish or ribbonfish
  • trapshooting — the sport of shooting at clay pigeons hurled into the air from a trap.
  • triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
  • tricephalous — with three heads
  • triphosphate — a salt derived from triphosphoric acid.
  • triumphalism — triumphant spirit or character.
  • triumphalist — Triumphalist behaviour is behaviour in which politicians or organizations celebrate a victory or a great success, especially when this is intended to upset the people they have defeated.
  • 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
  • tropophilous — adapted to a climate characterized by marked environmental changes.
  • typhus-fever — an acute, infectious disease caused by several species of Rickettsia, transmitted by lice and fleas, and characterized by acute prostration, headache, and a peculiar eruption of reddish spots on the body.
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