12-letter words containing o, t, l, i, h, s
- phrenologist — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
- phycologists — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- physiologist — a specialist in physiology.
- plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
- polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
- polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polyhistoric — relating to a polyhistor
- polystichous — arranged in rows or series.
- polytheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods: Science thrived in the polytheistic culture of ancient Greece.
- postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
- poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
- posthospital — following treatment in a hospital
- psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
- psychologist — a specialist in psychology.
- reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
- relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
- sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
- scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
- schistosomal — relating to or characteristic of a schistosome or member of the genus Schistosoma
- school night — any night of the week that precedes a day of school
- scoptophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
- semi-monthly — made, occurring, done, or published twice a month.
- shoot a line — to try to create a false image, as by boasting or exaggerating
- short splice — a splice used when an increased thickness of the united rope is not objectionable, made by unlaying the rope ends a certain distance, uniting them so that their strands overlap, then tucking each alternately over and under others several times.
- silhouetting — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
- silhouettist — a creator of silhouette portraits
- siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
- sixth column — the persons residing in a country at war who are devoted to aiding the fifth column in its activities, especially by lowering morale, spreading rumors, etc.
- slip through — be undetected
- slot machine — a gambling machine operated by inserting coins into a slot and pulling a handle that activates a set of spinning symbols on wheels, the final alignment of which determines the payoff that is released into a receptacle at the bottom.
- smotheringly — in a smothering manner
- sodium light — the light produced by a sodium lamp
- solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
- solzhenitsyn — Alexander or Aleksandr (Isayevich) [al-ig-zan-der ee-sahy-uh-vich,, -zahn-;; Russian uh-lyi-ksahn-dr ee-sah-yi-vyich] /ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər iˈsaɪ ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈzɑn-;; Russian ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr iˈsɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1918–2008, Russian novelist: Nobel prize 1970; in the U.S. 1974–94.
- sothic cycle — (in the ancient Egyptian calendar) a period of 1460 Sothic years.
- south euclid — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- south island — the largest island of New Zealand. 58,093 sq. mi. (150,460 sq. km).
- sphacelation — the process of mortification
- spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
- splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
- spotlighting — a strong, focused light thrown upon a particular spot, as on a small area of a stage or in a television studio, for making some object, person, or group especially conspicuous.
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- stegophilist — a person who enjoys climbing up the outside of buildings
- stoichiology — the branch of biology concerned with the study of the cellular components of animal tissues
- stretch limo — A stretch limo is a very long and luxurious car in which a rich, famous, or important person is driven somewhere.
- stringholder — an oblong piece of wood at the lower end of the body of a viol or other stringed instrument to which the strings are attached.
- strobe light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- strobe-light — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- strophiolate — having a strophiole