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12-letter words containing h, u, a, p

  • punching bag — an inflated or stuffed bag, usually suspended, punched with the fists as an exercise.
  • purchase tax — a sales tax on nonessential and luxury goods.
  • pure-hearted — (of a person) without malice, treachery, or evil intent; honest; sincere; guileless.
  • purple heart — a medal awarded for wounds received in action against an enemy or as a direct result of an act of the enemy.
  • purple patch — If someone, especially a sports player or team, goes through a purple patch, they are very successful or lucky for a period.
  • push forward — keep advancing
  • put to death — the act of dying; the end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism. Compare brain death.
  • put to shame — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
  • puzzleheaded — having, deriving from, or characterized by confused thoughts or ideas.
  • pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
  • quadraphonic — of, noting, or pertaining to the recording and reproduction of sound over four separate transmission or direct reproduction channels instead of the customary two of the stereo system: a quadraphonic recording.
  • quadriphonic — quadraphonic.
  • quadrophonic — Alternative spelling of quadraphonic.
  • quarter-hoop — a hoop, especially of steel, fastened around a cask between the bilge and the chime.
  • rabbit punch — a short, sharp blow to the nape of the neck or the lower part of the skull.
  • ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
  • raphaelesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of the style of the painter Raphael.
  • rhizocarpous — having the root perennial but the stem annual, as perennial herbs.
  • rhizophagous — feeding on roots.
  • router patch — a plywood panel patch with parallel sides and rounded ends.
  • saprophagous — (of an organism) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter.
  • sarcophagous — carnivorous.
  • sarrusophone — a metal double-reed wind instrument with a conical bore, related to the oboe and used especially in military bands.
  • scatophagous — feeding on dung or excrement
  • schopenhauer — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • schuman plan — the plan for establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, proposed by Robert Schuman, French political leader, in 1950.
  • scrophularia — a member of a genus of flowering plants which have a square stem and are known as figworts
  • shahjahanpur — a city in central Uttar Pradesh, in N India.
  • sharp tongue — If you say that someone has a sharp tongue, you are critical of the fact that they say things which are unkind though often clever.
  • sheep laurel — a small E North American plant (Kalmia angustifolia) of the heath family, with pinkish flowers and evergreen leaves poisonous to sheep and other animals
  • shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
  • shrimp sauce — a sauce made from shrimps
  • shuffle play — a facility on a compact disc player that randomly selects a track from one of a number of compact discs
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • sivapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene primates of Asia that resemble the modern orangutan.
  • south platte — a river flowing NE from central Colorado to the Platte River in W Nebraska. 424 miles (683 km) long.
  • splash guard — a large flap behind a rear tire to prevent mud, water, etc., from being splashed on the following vehicle.
  • sprachgefuhl — a sensitivity to language, especially for what is grammatically or idiomatically acceptable in a given language.
  • spud-bashing — the task of peeling potatoes, given as a punishment
  • starch syrup — glucose (def 2).
  • starch-syrup — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
  • stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
  • stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
  • stomach pump — a suction pump for removing the contents of the stomach, used especially in cases of poisoning.
  • strophanthus — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Strophanthus, of the dogbane family, chiefly of tropical Africa.
  • subparagraph — a distinct portion of written or printed matter dealing with a particular idea, usually beginning with an indentation on a new line.
  • sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
  • sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
  • sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
  • sulphur bath — a curative bath in which the water used has sulphates dissolved in it, especially one in which the water comes from a natural hot spring
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