12-letter words containing p, o, i, s, h
- attorneyship — The office or profession of an attorney.
- australopith — (archaeology, anthropology, paleonotology) Of or pertaining to the extinct hominid primates, of the genus Australopithecus, from the Pleistocene period.
- autohypnosis — the process or result of self-induced hypnosis
- automorphism — the practice of seeing others as having the same characteristics as oneself
- bachelorship — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
- barophoresis — the diffusion of suspended particles at a rate dependent on external forces
- bathophilous — (of an organism) living in very deep water
- betting shop — A betting shop is a place where people can go to bet on something such as a horse race.
- bicycle shop — a shop that sells and usually repairs bicycles and bicycle parts
- bishop's-cap — any of a genus (Mitella) of small woodland plants of the saxifrage family, with two-lobed seedcases shaped like a bishop's hat
- boatsmanship — seamanship as applied to boats, especially rowboats and motorboats.
- cacophonious — cacophonous
- cardiographs — Plural form of cardiograph.
- cataphoresis — electrophoresis
- catastrophic — Something that is catastrophic involves or causes a sudden terrible disaster.
- catch points — railway points designed to derail a train running back in the wrong direction to prevent collision with a following train
- chairpersons — Plural form of chairperson.
- championship — A championship is a competition to find the best player or team in a particular sport.
- charity shop — A charity shop is a shop that sells used goods cheaply and gives its profits to a charity.
- cheiloplasty — plastic surgery of the lip.
- chemotropism — the growth response of an organism, esp a plant, to a chemical stimulus
- chinese copy — an exact copy of an original
- chiropterans — Plural form of chiropteran.
- chisel point — a nail or spike with the point formed by two flat inclined sides meeting at a sharp angle.
- chlorospinel — a variety of spinel used as a gem, colored grass-green by the presence of copper.
- chlorpyrifos — a broad-spectrum insecticide, C 9 H 11 Cl 3 NO 3 PS, used on lawns and ornamental plants.
- christophany — an appearance or emergence of Christ following his crucifixion
- christophene — chayote.
- chromatopsia — an irregularity in the ability to see colours properly
- chymotrypsin — a powerful proteolytic enzyme secreted from the pancreas in the form of chymotrypsinogen, being converted to the active form by trypsin
- co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
- consumership — the state of being a consumer
- coppersmiths — Plural form of coppersmith.
- coprophagist — a person who eats excrement
- coprophilous — growing in or on dung
- copyrighters — Plural form of copyrighter.
- corrivalship — the position of a corrival
- cosmographic — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- costophrenic — Synonym of phrenicocostal.
- criosphinxes — Plural form of criosphinx.
- cryptorchids — Plural form of cryptorchid.
- cryptorchism — failure of one or both testes to descend into the scrotum.
- cushion pink — a low-growing mountain plant, Silene acaulis, of Europe and North America, having deep pink to purplish, solitary flowers and forming mosslike patches on rocky or barren ground.
- day hospital — part of a hospital that offers therapeutic services, where patients usually attend all day but go home or to a hospital ward at night
- demographics — data resulting from the science of demography; population statistics
- demographies — the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- diaphanously — In a diaphanous manner or to a diaphanous extent.
- diastrophism — the process of movement and deformation of the earth's crust that gives rise to large-scale features such as continents, ocean basins, and mountains
- dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
- diphosphates — a pyrophosphate.