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12-letter words containing p, l, u, s, h

  • melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
  • microphallus — The condition of having an abnormally small penis; micropenis.
  • micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
  • monadelphous — (of stamens) united into one bundle or set by their filaments.
  • monophyllous — consisting of one leaf, as a calyx.
  • murphy's law — the facetious proposition that if something can go wrong, it will.
  • necrophilous — displaying a preference for dead tissue, esp of certain bacteria and insects
  • neutrophiles — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
  • nitrophilous — (of plants) growing in soil well supplied with nitrogen
  • np-hilarious — (humour)   An algorithm whose complexity is a joke, either literally, as in BogoSort, or metaphorically.
  • nucleophiles — Plural form of nucleophile.
  • oligophagous — (especially of insects) eating only a few types of food.
  • ombrophilous — (of plants) tolerant of wet conditions
  • ophiolatrous — of, relating to, or practising snake-worshipping
  • parlor house — (especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries) a brothel with a comfortable, often elaborately decorated parlor for the reception of clients.
  • persulphuric — denoting a type of acid
  • philadelphus — (Philadelphus) king of Pergamum c159–138 b.c.
  • phillipsburg — a city in NW New Jersey, on the Delaware River.
  • phillumenist — a collector of matchbooks and matchboxes.
  • photophilous — of or relating to an organism, as a plant, that is receptive to, seeks, or thrives in light.
  • plattdeutsch — the Low German vernacular dialects spoken in northern Germany.
  • pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
  • pleomorphous — characterized by pleomorphism
  • plough horse — a horse used for pulling a plough
  • pollen brush — the mass of stiff hairs on the legs or abdomen of an insect, for collecting pollen.
  • polychaetous — of or relating to the genus Polychaeta
  • polymorphous — having, assuming, or passing through many or various forms, stages, or the like.
  • polyphyllous — made up of multiple members or parts
  • polystichous — arranged in rows or series.
  • polysulphide — any sulphide of a metal containing divalent anions in which there are chains of sulphur atoms, as in the polysulphides of sodium, Na2S2, Na2S3, Na2S4, etc
  • pompholygous — characterized by pompholyx
  • posthumously — arising, occurring, or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award for bravery.
  • prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
  • prescheduled — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
  • preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
  • press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
  • psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
  • public house — British. a tavern.
  • 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
  • put flesh on — If you put flesh on something, you add details and more information to it.
  • pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
  • raphaelesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of the style of the painter Raphael.
  • reupholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
  • rhizophilous — (esp of insects) preferring to live or grow near or on roots
  • schuman plan — the plan for establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, proposed by Robert Schuman, French political leader, in 1950.
  • scrophularia — a member of a genus of flowering plants which have a square stem and are known as figworts
  • sheep laurel — a small E North American plant (Kalmia angustifolia) of the heath family, with pinkish flowers and evergreen leaves poisonous to sheep and other animals
  • shipbuilding — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
  • shuffle play — a facility on a compact disc player that randomly selects a track from one of a number of compact discs
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