13-letter words containing o, e, s, p, h, a
- southern alps — a mountain range in New Zealand, on South Island: the highest range in Australasia. Highest peak: Mount Cook (also known as Aoraki or Aorangi), 3754 m (12 316 ft)
- spear-thrower — a flexible device for launching a spear, usually a short cord wound around the spear so that when thrown the weapon will rotate in the air.
- spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
- spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
- speleotherapy — a form of treatment for asthma sufferers that takes place in clinics in disused mines, in which the air is free of pollen, dust mites, and the other irritants that provoke an allergic reaction; used to reduce the risk of heart disease
- spermatophore — a capsule surrounding a mass of spermatozoa, produced by the male of various animal species and transferred to the female.
- spermatophyte — any of the Spermatophyta, a primary division or group of plants comprising those that bear seeds.
- spermatorrhea — abnormally frequent and involuntary nonorgasmic emission of semen.
- splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
- spokesmanship — the office or skilful use of the office of spokesman
- spotted hyena — a long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal native to Africa and S Asia (Crocuta crocuta)
- steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
- stereographer — a person who takes stereoscopic photographs.
- stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
- stovepipe hat — a tall silk hat.
- stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
- strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
- sulphonylurea — an antidiabetic drug used in treating type II diabetes, which acts by stimulating the production of insulin in the pancreas
- sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
- tachistoscope — an apparatus for use in exposing visual stimuli, as pictures, letters, or words, for an extremely brief period, used chiefly to assess visual perception or to increase reading speed.
- tapestry moth — carpet moth.
- taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
- the pants off — If someone bores, charms, or scares the pants off you, for example, they bore, charm, or scare you a lot.
- the pole star — the star closest to the N celestial pole at any particular time. At present this is Polaris, but it will eventually be replaced by some other star owing to precession of the earth's axis
- the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thespian lion — a lion that attacked the flocks of Amphitryon and was killed by Hercules.
- thiophosphate — a salt or ester of thiophosphoric acid.
- thysanopteran — Also, thysanopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Thysanoptera, comprising the thrips.
- thysanopteron — thysanopteran.
- tip one's hat — to take off, raise, or touch one's hat in salutation
- to go apeshit — to become crazy, enraged, or out of control
- tracheophytes — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
- vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
- weatherperson — a meteorologist or weathercaster.
- weatherproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weatherproof.
- zygapophyseal — one of the four processes of a vertebra, occurring in pairs that interlock each vertebra with the vertebrae above and below.