12-letter words containing p, h, o, t, s, e
- sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of 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
- super-smooth — dead-smooth.
- support hose — elastic stockings worn to reduce pressure on the veins of the leg, esp for people with varicose veins
- sycophantize — to act the sycophant
- tech support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- teleshopping — electronic shopping via videotex or other interactive information service.
- the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
- the hoppings — an annual fair in Newcastle
- the olympics — the Olympic Games
- the passions — feeling, as opposed to reason
- the pointers — the two brightest stars in the Plough (Dubhe and Merak), which lie in the direction pointing towards the Pole Star and are therefore used to locate it
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- the prophets — one of the three major divisions of the Jewish Holy Scriptures, following the Pentateuch and preceding the Hagiographa
- the scorpion — the constellation Scorpio, the eighth sign of the zodiac
- the wop-wops — the backblocks; the back of beyond
- the-pioneers — a historical novel (1823) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- theophrastus — 372?–287 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- thermosiphon — an arrangement of siphon tubes that enables water in a heating apparatus to circulate by means of convection.
- thermosphere — the region of the upper atmosphere in which temperature increases continuously with altitude, encompassing essentially all of the atmosphere above the mesosphere.
- thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
- third person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one (third person singular) or ones (third person plural) being addressed.
- thomas paine — Albert Bigelow [big-uh-loh] /ˈbɪg əˌloʊ/ (Show IPA), 1861–1937, U.S. author and editor.
- thoracoscope — an instrument used for examining the pleural cavity
- tracheoscopy — examination of the interior of the trachea, as with a laryngoscope.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- triphosphate — a salt derived from triphosphoric acid.
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- up the spout — If you say that something is up the spout, you mean that it is wrong or it is no longer working.
- urethroscope — an apparatus for observing the urethra.
- urethroscopy — observation of the urethra by a urethroscope.
- whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.