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

  • spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
  • spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
  • spirochetosis — a disease caused by infection with a spirochete.
  • spotted hyena — a long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal native to Africa and S Asia (Crocuta crocuta)
  • sprightliness — animated or vivacious; lively.
  • sprocket hole — any of a series of regular perforations along the edge of photographic film for engaging the drive sprockets in a motion-picture camera or projector.
  • stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
  • stamp machine — a machine used for stamping documents, as with the time, etc
  • star sapphire — a sapphire, cut cabochon, exhibiting asterism in the form of a colorless six-rayed star.
  • statesmanship — the ability, qualifications, or practice of a statesman; wisdom and skill in the management of public affairs.
  • steeplechaser — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
  • stenophyllous — having narrow leaves.
  • step out with — to be a boyfriend or girlfriend of (someone), esp publicly
  • stereographer — a person who takes stereoscopic photographs.
  • stethoscopist — a person who is experienced in the use of a stethoscope
  • stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
  • stop the show — (of a stage act, etc) to receive so much applause as to interrupt the performance
  • stovepipe hat — a tall silk hat.
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
  • striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
  • subepithelial — any animal tissue that covers a surface, or lines a cavity or the like, and that, in addition, performs any of various secretory, transporting, or regulatory functions.
  • sunlight peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,059 feet (4285 meters).
  • super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
  • superhelicity — a coil formed by intertwined helical DNA or by protein chains.
  • superstrength — great strength
  • superthriller — a highly sensational film or book
  • sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
  • tachistoscope — an apparatus for use in exposing visual stimuli, as pictures, letters, or words, for an extremely brief period, used chiefly to assess visual perception or to increase reading speed.
  • take the piss — mock
  • tapestry moth — carpet moth.
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • teacher's pet — a pupil who is a favorite of a teacher.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • the best part — If you say that something happened for the best part or the better part of a period of time, you mean that it happened for most of that time.
  • the jig is up — that ends it; all chances for success are gone
  • the oppressed — people who are subjugated by cruelty, force, etc
  • the palisades — line of steep cliffs in NE N.J. & SE N.Y. on the west shore of the Hudson: c. 15 mi (24 km) long
  • the pants off — If someone bores, charms, or scares the pants off you, for example, they bore, charm, or scare you a lot.
  • 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 potteries — a region of W central England, in Staffordshire, in which the china and earthenware industries are concentrated
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • the spiritual — the realm of spirits
  • the spotlight — the focus of attention
  • the superrich — exceptionally wealthy people, considered collectively
  • the-possessed — a novel (1871) by Dostoevsky.
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