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12-letter words containing p, h, o, e

  • shoot-'em-up — a motion-picture or television program that emphasizes gunplay, action, and often violence.
  • shop steward — commerce: union rep
  • shopbreaking — the act of breaking into a shop
  • shore patrol — (often initial capital letters) members of an organization in the U.S. Navy having police duties similar to those performed by military police. Abbreviation: SP.
  • 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.
  • short-spoken — speaking in a short, brief, or curt manner.
  • shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
  • show stopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • show-stopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
  • siderophilic — having characteristics of siderophile
  • siphonophore — any pelagic hydrozoan of the order Siphonophora, being a floating or swimming colony composed of polyps.
  • siphonostele — a hollow tube of vascular tissue enclosing a pith and embedded in ground tissue.
  • skeuomorphic — an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
  • slash pocket — a pocket set into a garment, especially below the waistline, to which easy access is provided by an exterior, vertical or diagonal slit.
  • snobographer — a person who writes about snobs
  • soccer pitch — the field of play used in soccer
  • sophisticate — a sophisticated person.
  • soup kitchen — a place where food, usually soup, is served at little or no charge to the needy.
  • south platte — a river flowing NE from central Colorado to the Platte River in W Nebraska. 424 miles (683 km) long.
  • speakerphone — a telephone or telephone attachment equipped with both loudspeaker and microphone, thus permitting the instrument to be used without being held.
  • spectrograph — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • speech organ — any part of the body, as the tongue, velum, diaphragm, or lungs, that participates, actively or passively, voluntarily or involuntarily, in the production of the sounds of speech.
  • speech sound — any of the set of distinctive sounds of a given language. Compare phoneme.
  • spermophytic — able to produce seed
  • sphacelation — the process of mortification
  • sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.
  • sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of the pulse
  • sphygmophone — a device by which a pulse may be heard
  • sphygmoscope — a device for studying or examining the pulse
  • spinsterhood — Disparaging and Offensive. a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
  • spirochaetal — resulting from spirochaetes
  • splotchiness — the state or condition of being splotchy
  • sponge cloth — any cloth loosely woven of coarse yarn to produce a spongy look or texture, especially one constructed in honeycomb weave.
  • steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
  • stegophilist — a person who enjoys climbing up the outside of buildings
  • stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
  • stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
  • stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
  • stephen jobs — (person)   Stephen P. Jobs (born 24 February 1955). The co-founder and ex-president of Apple Computer, leader of the team that produced the Macintosh. In 1979, when he was president of Apple, Steven Jobs saw a demonstration of Smalltalk at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. He and other Apple employees were "very impressed with the unique and revolutionary user-friendly design". The first Macintosh was released in January 1984. Jobs described it as insanely great. Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985 and founded Next, Inc.. In December 1996 he was re-employed by Apple when they bought NeXT. See also lithium lick, Mathematica.
  • stepmotherly — related to or having the characteristics of a stepmother
  • stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
  • stereophonic — pertaining to a system of sound recording or reproduction using two or more separate channels to produce a more realistic effect by capturing the spatial dimensions of a performance (the location of performers as well as their acoustic surroundings), used especially with high-fidelity recordings and reproduction systems (opposed to monophonic).
  • stethoscopic — pertaining to the stethoscope or to stethoscopy.
  • stratosphere — the region of the upper atmosphere extending upward from the tropopause to about 30 miles (50 km) above the earth, characterized by little vertical change in temperature.
  • strep throat — an acute sore throat caused by hemolytic streptococci and accompanied by fever and prostration.
  • strophiolate — having a strophiole
  • 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
  • super-smooth — dead-smooth.
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