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12-letter words containing p, e, t, s, h

  • tenths-place — next after ninth; being the ordinal number for ten.
  • the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
  • the dustheap — obscurity or oblivion
  • the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
  • the olympics — the Olympic Games
  • the pandects — a digest of Roman civil law in fifty books, compiled for the emperor Justinian in the 6th cent. a.d.; the Digest
  • the passions — feeling, as opposed to reason
  • the pictures — a cinema or film show
  • the pointers — the two brightest stars in the Plough (Dubhe and Merak), which lie in the direction pointing towards the Pole Star and are therefore used to locate it
  • the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
  • the prophets — one of the three major divisions of the Jewish Holy Scriptures, following the Pentateuch and preceding the Hagiographa
  • the psalmist — King David, to whom all or certain of the Psalms are variously attributed
  • the scorpion — the constellation Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac
  • the wop-wops — the backblocks; the back of beyond
  • the-persians — a tragedy (472 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • the-pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
  • theophrastus — 372?–287 b.c, Greek philosopher.
  • therapeutics — a therapeutic substance.
  • therapeutist — a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.
  • thermosiphon — an arrangement of siphon tubes that enables water in a heating apparatus to circulate by means of convection.
  • thermosphere — the region of the upper atmosphere in which temperature increases continuously with altitude, encompassing essentially all of the atmosphere above the mesosphere.
  • thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
  • third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
  • thomas paine — Albert Bigelow [big-uh-loh] /ˈbɪg əˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1861–1937, U.S. author and editor.
  • thoracoscope — an instrument used for examining the pleural cavity
  • tracheoscopy — examination of the interior of the trachea, as with a laryngoscope.
  • trachypterus — a dealfish or ribbonfish
  • triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
  • tricephalous — with three heads
  • triphosphate — a salt derived from triphosphoric acid.
  • typhus-fever — an acute, infectious disease caused by several species of Rickettsia, transmitted by lice and fleas, and characterized by acute prostration, headache, and a peculiar eruption of reddish spots on the body.
  • undispatched — not dispatched; not delivered or sent out
  • unhospitable — not hospitable
  • up the spout — If you say that something is up the spout, you mean that it is wrong or it is no longer working.
  • urethroscope — an apparatus for observing the urethra.
  • urethroscopy — observation of the urethra by a urethroscope.
  • water splash — a place where a stream runs over a road
  • watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
  • weather ship — a ship equipped for meteorological observation.
  • weatherstrip — A strip of rubber, metal, or other material used to seal the edges of a door or window against the cold.
  • west memphis — a city in E Arkansas, on the Mississippi.
  • wheeltappers — Plural form of wheeltapper.
  • whippletrees — Plural form of whippletree.
  • whipstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of whipstitch.
  • whipstitches — Plural form of whipstitch.
  • whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
  • white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
  • white sapote — a tropical American tree, Casimiroa edulis, of the rue family, having greenish, inconspicuous flowers and tomatolike fleshy fruit that is yellow on the inside and gray or yellowish-green on the outside.
  • white spirit — White spirit is a colourless liquid that is made from petrol and is used, for example, to make paint thinner or to clean surfaces.
  • white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
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