12-letter words containing p, o, s, t, c, h
- dictatorship — Dictatorship is government by a dictator.
- directorship — a person or thing that directs.
- dispatch box — a case or box used to hold valuables or documents, esp official state documents
- dryopithecus — an extinct genus of generalized hominoids that lived in Europe and Africa during the Miocene Epoch and whose members are characterized by small molars and incisors.
- encompasseth — Archaic third-person singular form of encompass.
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- ethnopoetics — A poetical, linguistic and anthropological movement dealing with poetry written by, or in the style of, indigenous peoples.
- executorship — The office or position of an executor.
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- geophysicist — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- hematocolpos — (medicine) A medical condition in which the vagina fills with menstrual blood, often caused by the combination of menstruation with an imperforate hymen.
- histographic — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
- holophrastic — using or consisting of a single word that functions as a phrase or sentence.
- holopneustic — having all the spiracles open, as the tracheal systems of most insects.
- hotchpotches — Plural form of hotchpotch.
- hypercoaster — Megacoaster.
- hypocoristic — endearing, as a pet name, diminutive, or euphemism.
- hysteroscopy — (medicine) The examination of the uterus using a hysteroscope.
- iconophilist — a person with a taste for pictures and symbols
- kitchen soap — heavy-duty soap intended for use in the kitchen
- lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- monophysitic — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
- monostrophic — consisting of stanzas or strophes all having the same metrical structure.
- mutton chops — side whiskers trimmed in the shape of chops, widening out from the temples
- neutrosophic — Neutrosophy
- non-strophic — Also, strophical. consisting of, pertaining to, or characterized by a strophe or strophes.
- nonpsychotic — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
- octastrophic — having or containing eight verses or strophes
- opisthotonic — of or relating to opisthotonos
- optic chiasm — a site at the base of the forebrain where the inner half of the fibers of the left and right optic nerves cross to the opposite side of the brain.
- oreopithecus — a genus of fossil primate from the Miocene coal deposits of Italy, formerly considered to be a possible hominid.
- ornithoscopy — divination from the observation of birds
- orthopaedics — (used with a singular verb) the medical specialty concerned with correction of deformities or functional impairments of the skeletal system, especially the extremities and the spine, and associated structures, as muscles and ligaments.
- outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
- parochialist — a parochial character, spirit, or tendency; excessive narrowness of interests or view; provincialism.
- peritrichous — (of bacteria) having a uniform distribution of flagella over the body surface.
- petrochemist — someone who studies petrochemistry or works in the petrochemical industry
- petrophysics — the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
- phagocytoses — phagocytize.
- phagocytosis — Physiology. the ingestion of a smaller cell or cell fragment, a microorganism, or foreign particles by means of the local infolding of a cell's membrane and the protrusion of its cytoplasm around the fold until the material has been surrounded and engulfed by closure of the membrane and formation of a vacuole: characteristic of amebas and some types of white blood cells.
- phenocrystic — relating to a phenocryst
- phonesthemic — (of a speech sound) shared by a set of echoic or symbolic words, as the sn- of sneer, snarl, snatch, snide, snitch, snoop, etc.
- phonotactics — the patterns in which the phonemes of a language may combine to form sequences.
- phosphatidic — of or relating to a phosphatide
- photocompose — to set (type) on a photocomposer.
- photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
- phycologists — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.