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12-letter words containing n, e, p, t, h, s

  • potting shed — A potting shed is a small building in a garden, in which you can keep things such as seeds or garden tools.
  • prehistorian — an authority on or specialist in prehistory
  • prenticeship — an apprenticeship
  • prester john — a legendary Christian monk and potentate of the Middle Ages, supposed to have had a kingdom in some remote part of Asia or Africa and associated with fabulous narratives of travel.
  • prostanthera — any bush of the Australian genus Prostanthera, with red or white flowers and strongly scented leaves
  • protosynthex — A query system for English text.
  • put flesh on — If you put flesh on something, you add details and more information to it.
  • pyonephritis — suppurative inflammation of the kidney.
  • pyrotechnics — the art of making fireworks.
  • pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • residentship — a person who resides in a place.
  • retainership — the condition of being a retainer or of having retainers.
  • saint joseph — a city in NW Missouri, on the Missouri River.
  • saint phalle — Niki de [nik-ee duh;; French nee-kee duh] /ˈnɪk i də;; French niˈki də/ (Show IPA), 1930–2002, French sculptor and painter.
  • sea elephant — elephant seal.
  • share option — A share option is an opportunity for the employees of a company to buy shares at a special price.
  • 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.
  • short-spoken — speaking in a short, brief, or curt manner.
  • siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
  • spiderhunter — any of several sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having dull-colored plumage and a long bill.
  • spinach beet — chard, a plant cultivated for its edible leaves
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • spinstership — the state of being a spinster
  • splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
  • sponge cloth — any cloth loosely woven of coarse yarn to produce a spongy look or texture, especially one constructed in honeycomb weave.
  • spring vetch — any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa (spring vetch) cultivated for forage and soil improvement.
  • steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
  • stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
  • stephen jobs — (person)   Stephen P. Jobs (born 24 February 1955). The co-founder and ex-president of Apple Computer, leader of the team that produced the Macintosh. In 1979, when he was president of Apple, Steven Jobs saw a demonstration of Smalltalk at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. He and other Apple employees were "very impressed with the unique and revolutionary user-friendly design". The first Macintosh was released in January 1984. Jobs described it as insanely great. Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985 and founded Next, Inc.. In December 1996 he was re-employed by Apple when they bought NeXT. See also lithium lick, Mathematica.
  • stephen viii — died a.d. 942, pope 939–942.
  • stephenville — a town in central Texas.
  • 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).
  • superheating — Superheating of steam is raising its temperature to well above boiling point.
  • sycophantize — to act the sycophant
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
  • tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
  • the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
  • 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 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-persians — a tragedy (472 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
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