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

  • prophylactic — defending or protecting from disease or infection, as a drug.
  • prothalamion — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • prothalamium — prothalamion.
  • psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
  • psychologism — emphasis upon psychological factors in the development of a theory, as in history or philosophy.
  • psychologist — a specialist in psychology.
  • psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
  • psychosocial — of or relating to the interaction between social and psychological factors.
  • public house — British. a tavern.
  • purple finch — a North American finch, Carpodacus purpureus, having a raspberry-red head, breast, and rump.
  • push polling — the use of loaded questions in a supposedly objective telephone opinion poll during a political campaign in order to bias voters against an opposing candidate
  • pyophthalmia — suppurative inflammation of the eye.
  • pyritohedral — of or relating to a pyritohedron
  • pyrochemical — pertaining to or producing chemical change at high temperatures.
  • pyrophyllite — Mineralogy. a phyllosilicate, AlSi 2 O 5 (OH), usually having a white or greenish color, and occurring in either foliated or compact masses, the latter variety being used like soapstone.
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • replenishing — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • retrophiliac — someone who has a strong liking for things from the past
  • rhizophilous — (esp of insects) preferring to live or grow near or on roots
  • sailing ship — a large ship equipped with sails.
  • saint phalle — Niki de [nik-ee duh;; French nee-kee duh] /ˈnɪk i də;; French niˈki də/ (Show IPA), 1930–2002, French sculptor and painter.
  • salesmanship — the technique of selling a product: They used a promotional gimmick that was the last word in salesmanship.
  • schappe silk — a yarn or fabric of or similar to spun silk.
  • schiaparelli — Elsa [el-sah] /ˈɛl sɑ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1973, French fashion designer, born in Italy.
  • scopophiliac — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • scoptophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • scrophularia — a member of a genus of flowering plants which have a square stem and are known as figworts
  • self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • seraphically — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
  • shepherdling — a young or little shepherd
  • shin splints — a painful condition of the front lower leg, associated with tendinitis, stress fractures, or muscle strain, often occurring as a result of running or other strenuous athletic activity, especially on a nonresilient surface.
  • shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • shoo-fly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
  • 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.
  • shrimp plant — a small, sprawling shrub, Justicia brandegeana (or Beloperone guttata), of the acanthus family, native to Mexico, having small white flowers protruding from a series of overlapping reddish bracts and often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • siderophilic — having characteristics of siderophile
  • silicon chip — A silicon chip is a very small piece of silicon inside a computer. It has electronic circuits on it and can hold large quantities of information or perform mathematical or logical operations.
  • silver perch — Also called mademoiselle. Ichthyology. a drum, Bairdiella chrysoura, of southern U.S. waters.
  • single-phase — noting or pertaining to a circuit having an alternating current with one phase or with phases differing by 180°.
  • siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
  • slap dashing — slab dashing.
  • slip through — be undetected
  • slipper bath — a bath in the shape of a slipper, with a covered end
  • 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
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