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13-letter words containing o, r, p, h, a

  • thanatography — an account or story of a person's death experience
  • 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.
  • thermal power — power produced by converting heat into electricity
  • thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thermotherapy — treatment of disease by means of moist or dry heat.
  • thoracoplasty — the operation removing selected portions of the ribs to collapse part of the underlying lung or an abnormal pleural space, usually in the treatment of tuberculosis.
  • thoroughpaced — trained to go through all the possible paces, as a horse.
  • thrombophilia — a condition marked by the tendency to develop blood clots or thrombosis
  • throw a party — host a celebration
  • throw a punch — try to hit sb
  • thysanopteran — Also, thysanopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Thysanoptera, comprising the thrips.
  • thysanopteron — thysanopteran.
  • topographical — the detailed mapping or charting of the features of a relatively small area, district, or locality.
  • tortilla chip — Tortilla chips are thick crisps made from corn which are often served with dips such as salsa.
  • tracheophytes — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
  • trachycarpous — having rough-skinned fruit.
  • trapezohedron — Crystallography. a crystal form having all faces trapeziums.
  • tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
  • typographical — of or relating to typography.
  • unreproachful — not deserving reproach or blame
  • unreproaching — not reproaching or blaming
  • up to scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
  • upright piano — a piano with an upright rectangular body and with its strings running vertically. Compare spinet (def 1).
  • vapourer moth — a tussock moth, Orgyia antiqua, of hedgerows and trees, the female of which is wingless and lays her eggs on her former cocoon
  • vapourishness — the quality or state of being vapourish
  • weatherperson — a meteorologist or weathercaster.
  • weatherproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weatherproof.
  • wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.
  • xerophthalmia — abnormal dryness of the eyeball characterized by conjunctivitis, caused by a deficiency of tears and attributed to a lack of vitamin A.
  • xerophthalmic — Of or pertaining to xerophthalmia.
  • xiphiplastron — the fourth lateral plate of a turtle's plastron
  • xylographical — Xylographic.
  • zinjanthropus — the genus to which Australopithecus boisei was formerly assigned.
  • zoogeographer — A person involved in zoogeography.
  • zoogeographic — Pertaining to zoogeography.
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