13-letter words containing o, p, h, t
- apothegmatise — to speak in apothegms
- apotheosizing — Present participle of apotheosize.
- approach path — the course followed by an aircraft preparing for landing
- approach shot — a shot made to or towards the green after a tee shot
- archaeopteryx — any of several extinct primitive birds constituting the genus Archaeopteryx, esp A. lithographica, which occurred in Jurassic times and had teeth, a long tail, well-developed wings, and a body covering of feathers
- archeptolemus — (in the Iliad) the son of Iphitus who served as a charioteer for Hector.
- arithmophobia — the fear of numbers
- arteriography — the X-ray examination of an artery or arterial system after injection of a contrast medium into the bloodstream
- arthroscopies — Plural form of arthroscopy.
- associateship — to connect or bring into relation, as thought, feeling, memory, etc.: Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom.
- asthenosphere — a thin semifluid layer of the earth (100–200 km thick), below the outer rigid lithosphere, forming part of the mantle and thought to be able to flow vertically and horizontally, enabling sections of lithosphere to subside, rise, and undergo lateral movement
- astrophysical — Of or pertaining to astrophysics.
- at this point — at this moment in time
- atmospherical — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
- auction pitch — a variety of all fours in which players bid to determine the trump or pitch.
- autapomorphic — (biology) Describing any characteristic that has evolved in only a single species (or other taxon).
- autobiography — Your autobiography is an account of your life, which you write yourself.
- autocephalous — (of an Eastern Christian Church) governed by its own national synods and appointing its own patriarchs or prelates
- autographical — Relating to, or used in, the process of autography.
- automatograph — a device for recording involuntary bodily movements.
- bacteriophage — a virus that is parasitic in a bacterium and multiplies within its host, which is destroyed when the new viruses are released
- bacteriophagy — the action of a bacteriophage
- balneotherapy — the treatment of disease by bathing, esp to improve limb mobility in arthritic and neuromuscular disorders
- base hospital — a hospital serving a large rural area
- batch-process — to perform batch processing on (files)
- benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
- beta-naphthol — either of two isomeric hydroxyl derivatives, C 1 0 H 7 OH, of naphthalene (alpha-naphthol or 1-naphthol and beta-naphthol or 2-naphthol) white or yellowish crystals, with a phenolic odor, that darken on exposure to light: used chiefly in dyes, drugs, perfumes, and insecticides.
- bibliophagist — a person who devours books
- bibliotherapy — the use of reading as therapy
- bio-autograph — an analytical technique in which organic compounds are separated by chromatography and identified by studying their effects on microorganisms.
- bioautography — an analytical technique in which organic compounds are separated by chromatography and identified by studying their effects on microorganisms.
- birthing pool — a large bath in which a woman can give birth
- bishop violet — a reddish purple.
- blepharoplast — a cylindrical cytoplasmic body in protozoa
- bolt up right — a movable bar or rod that when slid into a socket fastens a door, gate, etc.
- bound up with — closely or inextricably linked with
- boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
- brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
- buff-tip moth — a large European moth, Phalera bucephala, having violet-brown buff-tipped forewings held at rest around the body so that it resembles a snapped-off twig
- butyrophenone — a drug used to treat psychiatric disorders
- cainotophobia — Alternative form of cainophobia.
- cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
- cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
- catastrophise — Alt form catastrophize.
- catastrophism — an old doctrine, now discarded, that the earth was created and has subsequently been shaped by sudden divine acts which have no logical connection with each other rather than by gradual evolutionary processes
- catastrophist — the doctrine that certain vast geological changes in the earth's history were caused by catastrophes rather than gradual evolutionary processes.
- catastrophize — (obsolete) To end a comedy.
- cathodography — the process or practice of taking photographs using cathode rays
- cecropia moth — a large North American saturniid moth, Hyalophora (or Samia) cecropia, with brightly coloured wings and feathery antennae
- cephalization — (in the evolution of animals) development of a head by the concentration of feeding and sensory organs and nervous tissue at the anterior end