12-letter words containing p, h, o, t, r, e
- joseph brant — Joseph (Thayendanegea) 1742–1807, Mohawk Indian chief who fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution.
- jump shooter — a player skilled at jump shots.
- kinetography — a camera for taking pictures for a kinetoscope.
- lahore party — a modern sect, divided into an older group (Qadianis) and a newer group (Lahore party)
- leopard moth — a moth, Zeuzera pyrina, having white wings spotted with black and larvae that bore into the wood of various trees and shrubs.
- lithographed — Simple past tense and past participle of lithograph.
- lithographer — a person who works at lithography.
- lithospermum — any annual or perennial herbs and small shrubs of the genus lithospermum, of the borage family, native to Europe, N America, and northern Asia, and having white, blue, or yellow flowers
- lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
- lithotripter — a device used for fragmenting kidney stones with ultrasound waves.
- lophophorate — Of or relating to small aquatic invertebrates belonging to a group of phyla characterized by the possession of lophophores. They include bryozoans, brachiopods, and phoronids.
- lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
- luteotrophic — affecting the corpus luteum.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- magnetograph — a recording magnetometer, used especially for recording variations in the earth's magnetic field.
- magnotherapy — Any of several alternative medicine therapies using magnetism.
- mapplethorpe — Robert, 1946–89, U.S. photographer.
- massotherapy — treatment by massage.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- metallograph — a microscope for observing the microstructure of metals.
- metamorphism — Geology. a change in the structure or constitution of a rock due to natural agencies, as pressure and heat, especially when the rock becomes harder and more completely crystalline.
- metamorphist — a member of a group of 16th century Christians who believed that the humanly body of Jesus Christ metamorphosed into God during the Ascension
- metamorphize — (transitive) To transform or change; metamorphose.
- metamorphose — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- metamorphous — metamorphic.
- metaphorical — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- meteorograph — an instrument for automatically recording various meteorological conditions, as barometric pressure and temperature, at the same time.
- methyl group — the univalent group CH 3 −, derived from methane.
- misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
- myrmecophyte — A plant that lives in association with a colony of ants. The degree of association varies and is assumed to be symbiotic in some cases.
- mythographer — a person who collects or records myths in writing.
- narcotherapy — an infrequently used method of treating mental disorders by intravenous injection of barbiturates.
- neoanthropic — neanthropic.
- nephelometer — Bacteriology. an apparatus containing a series of barium chloride standards used to determine the number of bacteria in a suspension.
- nephelometry — Bacteriology. an apparatus containing a series of barium chloride standards used to determine the number of bacteria in a suspension.
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- nephropathic — characterized by or relating to nephropathy
- nephroptosis — An abnormal condition in which the kidney drops down into the pelvis when the patient stands up.
- nephrostomes — Plural form of nephrostome.
- nephrotomies — Plural form of nephrotomy.
- neuronopathy — A form of polyneuropathy caused by destruction of neurons.
- neuropathies — Plural form of neuropathy.
- neuropathist — a specialist in treating diseases of the nervous system; a neurologist
- neurotrophic — of or relating to the effect of nerves on the nutritive processes.
- neutrophiles — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- neutrophilic — (of a cell or its contents) readily stained only by neutral dyes.
- neutrosophic — Neutrosophy
- neutrosphere — the part of the atmosphere whose constituents are, for the most part, electrically neutral, extending from the earth's surface to the base of the ionosphere.