11-letter words containing m, o, r, p, h
- rheotropism — the effect of a current of water upon the direction of plant growth.
- rockhampton — a city in E Queensland, in E Australia.
- roman punch — a lemon-water ice flavored with rum or other alcoholic beverage.
- rompishness — the state or condition of being rompish
- seismograph — any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes.
- show jumper — A show jumper is a person who takes part in the sport of show jumping.
- smart phone — a device that combines a cell phone with a handheld computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, email capability, etc.
- speech form — linguistic form.
- 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.
- spermophyte — spermatophyte.
- spherometer — an instrument for measuring the curvature of spheres and curved surfaces.
- sphygmogram — a tracing or diagram produced by a sphygmograph.
- stasimorphy — structural modification by arrested development
- supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
- symposiarch — the president, director, or master of a symposium.
- tcp theorem — the proposition that all the laws of physics are unchanged by the combined operations of charge conjugation (C), space inversion (P), and time reversal (T).
- tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
- thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
- theomorphic — having the form or likeness of God or a deity.
- thermograph — a thermometer that records the temperatures it measures.
- thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
- thermophone — an electroacoustic transducer that forms sound waves by the expansion and contraction of the air adjacent to a conductor that varies in temperature according to the magnitude of the current passing through it; formerly used to calibrate microphones.
- thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
- thermoscope — a device that indicates a change in temperature, esp one that does not measure the actual temperature
- timbrophily — the love of stamps; stamp collecting
- tomographic — relating to tomography
- trichonymph — a flagellated protozoan of the genus Trichonympha that lives in the intestine of wood-eating termites, transforming the cellulose in the wood into soluble carbohydrates that can be utilized by the insect.
- trimorphism — Zoology. the occurrence of three forms distinct in structure, coloration, etc., among animals of the same species.
- trophoplasm — the cytoplasm that is involved in the nutritive processes of a cell
- trophy room — a room in which a person or group keeps and displays trophies, as for bowling or golf.
- turnip moth — a common noctuid moth, Agrotis segetum, drab grey-brown in colour, the larvae of which feed on root crops and brassica stems
- workmanship — the art or skill of a workman or workwoman.
- xenomorphic — in an unusual form; having a strange form.
- xeromorphic — of or relating to structural adaptations of xerophytes that help them store water and withstand drought.
- xerophytism — (botany) The adaptation of plants to habitats where water is scarce.
- zoomorphism — zoomorphic representation, as in ornament.
- zygomorphic — having bilateral symmetry; divisible lengthwise into similar or symmetrical halves.