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11-letter words containing p, h, o, t, l

  • rhinoplasty — plastic surgery of the nose.
  • rope-length — a length of standard climbing rope, normally 50–60m
  • school trip — educational outing
  • scotophilic — living and flourishing in darkness.
  • shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
  • sophistical — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
  • spheroplast — a Gram-negative bacterial cell with a cell wall that has been altered or is partly missing, resulting in a spherical shape.
  • sports hall — venue for physical activities
  • stylography — the art of writing, tracing, drawing, etc., with a style.
  • sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
  • sulphurwort — an umbelliferous perennial plant, Peucedanum officinale, of which the roots produce a smell like that of sulphur
  • tailhopping — the act of hopping to lift the tails of the skis off the ground while flexing the knees into a crouching position
  • technophile — a person who loves or is enthusiastic about advanced technology.
  • technopolis — a society with a concentration of technology-based businesses or an emphasis on technology
  • telephoning — an apparatus, system, or process for transmission of sound or speech to a distant point, especially by an electric device.
  • telephonist — a telephone switchboard operator.
  • telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
  • thallophyte — any of the Thallophyta, a plant division in some older classification schemes, comprising algae, fungi, and lichens.
  • the capitol — the main building of the US Congress
  • the dolphin — the constellation Delphinus
  • thermophile — a thermophilic organism.
  • thermopylae — a pass in E Greece, between the cliffs of Mt. Oeta and the Gulf of Lamia: Persian defeat of the Spartans 480 b.c.
  • thorn apple — any poisonous plant belonging to the genus Datura, of the nightshade family, the species of which bear capsules covered with prickly spines, especially the jimson weed, D. stramonium.
  • timbrophily — the love of stamps; stamp collecting
  • tool pusher — A tool pusher is someone who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig.
  • total depth — Total depth is the downward length of a well, measured by the length of pipe which is needed to reach the bottom.
  • touch plate — a pewter plate belonging to a guild of pewterers and bearing samples of the touchmarks of all pewterers belonging to the guild.
  • toxophilite — a devotee of archery; archer.
  • triphyllous — having three leaves.
  • trophically — of or relating to nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.
  • trophoblast — the layer of extraembryonic ectoderm that chiefly nourishes the embryo or develops into fetal membranes with nutritive functions.
  • trophoplasm — the cytoplasm that is involved in the nutritive processes of a cell
  • trothplight — engagement to be married; betrothal.
  • tyroglyphid — a tick or mite of the family Tyroglyphidae
  • up the pole — slightly mad
  • upholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
  • upholsterer — a person whose business it is to upholster furniture and, sometimes, to furnish and put in place hangings, curtains, carpets, etc.
  • upholstress — a female upholsterer
  • whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
  • xanthophyll — lutein (def 1).
  • xiphocostal — Pertaining to the xiphoid process and the ribs.
  • xylophonist — A person who plays or performs with the xylophone.
  • zoophilists — Plural form of zoophilist.
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