12-letter words containing p, u, s, h, i
- in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- laureateship — a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award: a Nobel laureate.
- lectureships — Plural form of lectureship.
- limnophilous — (of animals) living in lakes or freshwater marshes
- lithophagous — swallowing or feeding on stones
- lithophilous — (of animals and plants) inhabiting or growing in stony places
- 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
- melliphagous — (of an animal) feeding on honey
- microphagous — (of an animal) feeding on small particles of food
- microphallus — The condition of having an abnormally small penis; micropenis.
- micropublish — to publish on microfilm or microfiche.
- mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
- musicianship — knowledge, skill, and artistic sensitivity in performing music.
- necrophilous — displaying a preference for dead tissue, esp of certain bacteria and insects
- neuropathies — Plural form of neuropathy.
- neuropathist — a specialist in treating diseases of the nervous system; a neurologist
- neutrophiles — (of a cell or cell part) having an affinity for neutral dyes.
- neutrosophic — Neutrosophy
- 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
- ophiophagous — eating snakes.
- oreopithecus — a genus of fossil primate from the Miocene coal deposits of Italy, formerly considered to be a possible hominid.
- outpouchings — Plural form of outpouching.
- packinghouse — a building where foodstuffs are packed
- parish house — a building used by a church chiefly for administrative and social purposes.
- peritrichous — (of bacteria) having a uniform distribution of flagella over the body surface.
- 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.
- phosphaturia — the presence of an excessive quantity of phosphates in the urine.
- photophilous — of or relating to an organism, as a plant, that is receptive to, seeks, or thrives in light.
- picture sash — a large window sash, as for a picture window.
- picture show — motion picture.
- pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
- 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
- posing pouch — a thong that emphasizes the genitals
- poughkeepsie — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- prepublished — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- 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
- ramapithecus — a genus of extinct Miocene ape known from fossils found in India and Pakistan and formerly thought to be a possible human ancestor.
- rhizocarpous — having the root perennial but the stem annual, as perennial herbs.
- rhizophagous — feeding on roots.
- rhizophilous — (esp of insects) preferring to live or grow near or on roots