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12-letter words containing p, h, a, l, i

  • sophomorical — characteristic of a sophomore
  • space flight — journey into outer space
  • spanish heel — a high, curved heel with a straight heel breast, used on women's shoes.
  • spasmophilia — a condition in which only moderate mechanical or electrical stimulation produces spasms, convulsions, or tetany.
  • spasmophilic — of or noting spasmophilia.
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • sphericality — the state of being a sphere
  • sphincterial — relating to a sphincter
  • spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
  • stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
  • sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
  • sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
  • sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
  • superhelical — of, relating to, or consisting of a superhelix
  • supply chain — process of manufacture and sale
  • switch plate — a plate, usually of metal, ceramic, or plastic, covering a switch so that the knob or toggle protrudes.
  • synadelphite — an arsenate containing manganese and aluminium
  • talking shop — If you say that a conference or a committee is just a talking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.
  • technophilia — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
  • terephthalic — relating to, designating, or derived from terephthalic acid or its derivatives
  • the psalmist — King David, to whom all or certain of the Psalms are variously attributed
  • thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
  • tragelaphine — of or relating to a tragelaph
  • triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
  • tricephalous — with three heads
  • triumphalism — triumphant spirit or character.
  • triumphalist — Triumphalist behaviour is behaviour in which politicians or organizations celebrate a victory or a great success, especially when this is intended to upset the people they have defeated.
  • triumphantly — having achieved victory or success; victorious; successful.
  • trophallaxis — (among social insects) the exchange of nutriments or other secretions between members of a colony.
  • unalphabetic — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
  • unhospitable — not hospitable
  • unperishable — imperishable
  • unpolishable — incapable of being made smooth or shiny
  • unpunishable — not able to be punished
  • unpunishably — in an unpunishable manner
  • walk spanish — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
  • webliography — a list of electronic documents, websites, or other resources available on the World Wide Web, especially those relating to a particular subject: a student's annotated webliography on Shakespeare.
  • whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
  • whaling ship — a ship engaged in whaling
  • white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
  • white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
  • white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
  • wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
  • woolly aphid — any plant louse of the family Aphididae, characterized by a waxy secretion that appears like a jumbled mass of fine, curly, white cottony or woolly threads, as Eriosoma lanigerum (woolly apple aphid or American blight) and Prociphilus tessellatus (woolly alder aphid)
  • wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler
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