12-letter words containing o, p, h, t
- compost heap — an outdoor pile of compostabale material that degrades into compost
- cop off with — If you cop off with someone, you meet them and start a sexual or romantic relationship with them.
- coppersmiths — Plural form of coppersmith.
- coprophagist — a person who eats excrement
- copyrighters — Plural form of copyrighter.
- copyrighting — Present participle of copyright.
- costophrenic — Synonym of phrenicocostal.
- couch potato — A couch potato is someone who spends most of their time watching television and does not exercise or have any interesting hobbies.
- counterpunch — to punch an attacking opponent; return an attack
- criptography — (spelling) It's spelled "cryptography".
- croquet hoop — a hoop stuck into a croquet lawn
- crosspatches — Plural form of crosspatch.
- crymotherapy — cryotherapy.
- cryptography — the science or study of analysing and deciphering codes, ciphers, etc; cryptanalysis
- cryptorchids — Plural form of cryptorchid.
- cryptorchism — failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum.
- cut up rough — to become angry or bad-tempered
- cycloheptane — (organic compound) An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C7H14; a volatile inflammable liquid.
- day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
- dehypnotized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehypnotize.
- dephlegmator — an apparatus used for dephlegmation
- dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
- detectaphone — a device for listening secretly to others' telephone conversations
- detectophone — a secret listening device, the predecessor of the modern 'bug'
- deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
- diastrophism — the process of movement and deformation of the earth's crust that gives rise to large-scale features such as continents, ocean basins, and mountains
- dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
- diphosphates — a pyrophosphate.
- diphtheroids — resembling diphtheria, especially in the formation of a false membrane in the throat.
- diphthongize — to change into or pronounce as a diphthong.
- directorship — a person or thing that directs.
- dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
- draughtproof — That prevents the access of draughts.
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- ectypography — a form of etching or engraving in which the design is produced in relief
- electrograph — A machine used in gravure printing.
- electrophile — (chemistry) a compound or functional group that is attractive to, and accepts electrons, especially accepting an electron pair from a nucleophile to form a bond.
- electrophone — (music) any instrument designed to create sounds using electrical currents.
- electrophori — Plural form of electrophorus.
- enantiomorph — Each of two crystalline or other geometric forms that are mirror images of each other.
- enantiopathy — the treatment of disease by opposites; allopathy
- encompasseth — Archaic third-person singular form of encompass.
- enhypostasia — personalities existing in union (Jesus Christ and God the Son)
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- enophthalmos — The posterior displacement of the eyeball within the orbit due to changes in the volume of the orbit (bone) relative to its contents (the eyeball and orbital fat), or loss of function of the orbitalis muscle.
- enthesopathy — (pathology) A disorder of entheses (bone attachments).
- entomophobia — Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods.
- epanorthosis — (rhetoric) A rhetorical device or element in which a speaker or writer retracts a word that has been spoken and substitutes a stronger or more suitable word; often done for emphasis or sarcasm.
- epiphytology — the study of epiphytes
- epithalamion — A song or poem celebrating a marriage.