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12-letter words containing i, s, o, p, h, t

  • satanophobia — a morbid fear of the devil or Satan
  • schizophytic — of or relating to a schizophyte
  • scoptophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • septic shock — condition caused by blood poisoning
  • servitorship — the office or position of a servitor; the condition of being a servitor
  • share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
  • ship's store — a retail store aboard a navy ship that sells toiletries, cigarettes, etc., to the ship's personnel.
  • shipping ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
  • short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
  • showstopping — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • sinanthropus — the genus to which Peking man was formerly assigned.
  • siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
  • slip through — be undetected
  • snapshotting — an informal photograph, especially one taken quickly by a handheld camera.
  • soccer pitch — the field of play used in soccer
  • sophisticate — a sophisticated person.
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • spanish foot — a carved pyramidal foot having fluted, concave sides usually ending in a scroll at the bottom.
  • spatiography — the study of the characteristics of space beyond the atmosphere, including the mapping of the movements of celestial bodies and the recording of electrical, magnetic, and gravitational effects, especially those likely to affect missiles and spacecraft.
  • spermophytic — able to produce seed
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
  • splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
  • sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
  • sports 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.
  • spotlighting — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
  • stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
  • stegophilist — a person who enjoys climbing up the outside of buildings
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stereophonic — pertaining to a system of sound recording or reproduction using two or more separate channels to produce a more realistic effect by capturing the spatial dimensions of a performance (the location of performers as well as their acoustic surroundings), used especially with high-fidelity recordings and reproduction systems (opposed to monophonic).
  • stethoscopic — pertaining to the stethoscope or to stethoscopy.
  • stockpunisht — punished by being put in stocks
  • strophanthin — a very poisonous, bitter glycoside or mixture of glycosides obtained from the dried, ripe seeds of a strophanthus, especially Strophanthus kombe, used as a cardiac stimulant.
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
  • sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
  • sycophantish — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sycophantism — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sycophantize — to act the sycophant
  • 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.
  • teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
  • the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
  • the olympics — the Olympic Games
  • the passions — feeling, as opposed to reason
  • 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 scorpion — the constellation Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac
  • the-pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • thermosiphon — an arrangement of siphon tubes that enables water in a heating apparatus to circulate by means of convection.
  • thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
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