12-letter words containing p, y, t, h, o
- 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
- dehypnotized — Simple past tense and past participle of dehypnotize.
- dermatophyte — any parasitic fungus that affects the skin
- deuteropathy — any abnormality that is secondary to another pathological condition.
- 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.
- ectypography — a form of etching or engraving in which the design is produced in relief
- enantiopathy — the treatment of disease by opposites; allopathy
- enhypostasia — personalities existing in union (Jesus Christ and God the Son)
- enhypostatic — relating to enhypostasia
- enthesopathy — (pathology) A disorder of entheses (bone attachments).
- epiphytology — the study of epiphytes
- erythropenia — A decrease in the number of erythrocytes, associated with anemia.
- esophagotomy — (surgery) The operation of making an incision into the esophagus for the purpose of removing an obstruction.
- ex hypothesi — in accordance with or following from the hypothesis stated
- factory ship — a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
- fly the coop — an enclosure, cage, or pen, usually with bars or wires, in which fowls or other small animals are confined for fattening, transportation, etc.
- fosphenytoin — a prodrug that produces phenytoin and is taken to prevent or treat seizures.
- fowl typhoid — a septicemic disease of fowl, especially chickens, caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum and marked by fever, loss of appetite, thirst, anemic pallor of the skin of the head, and prostration.
- fractography — the study of fractures or cracks in a material, esp metal, in order to predict or identify the cause of a failure in a structure
- gametophytes — Plural form of gametophyte.
- gametophytic — (botany) Of or pertaining to a gametophyte plant.
- geophysicist — the branch of geology that deals with the physics of the earth and its atmosphere, including oceanography, seismology, volcanology, and geomagnetism.
- glyptography — the description or study of engraved gems or other stones.
- gold therapy — administration of gold salts as a treatment for disease, especially rheumatoid arthritis.
- graph theory — the branch of mathematics dealing with linear graphs.
- group theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with the structure of mathematical groups and mappings between them.
- gymnosophist — one of a group of Jainist philosophers, existing from ancient times to c1000, characterized by refusal to wear clothes and the abandonment of caste marks; a member of the Digambara sect.
- have pity on — to have sympathy or show mercy for
- heliotherapy — treatment of disease by means of sunlight.
- hepaticology — the scientific study of bryophyte plants known as hepatics or liverworts
- hepatomegaly — an abnormal enlargement of the liver, usually associated with liver disease or heart failure.
- hepatoxicity — Toxicity that affects the liver.
- hernioplasty — an operation for the repair of a hernia.
- heterography — spelling different from that in current use.
- heteromorphy — (biology) The state or quality of being heteromorphic; heteromorphism.
- heteroplasty — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
- heteroploidy — (genetics) The state of being heteroploid.
- heterotrophy — The state of being a heterotroph.
- holy picture — a picture of a person or thing that is of religious importance
- homeotherapy — therapy for a disease by means of an agent that is similar to but not identical with the causative agent of the disease.
- hyannis port — a town in SE Massachusetts, on Nantucket Sound: summer resort.
- hydnocarpate — a salt or ester of hydnocarpic acid.
- hydrophilite — a white mineral consisting of potassium and calcium
- hydrotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the curative use of water.
- hydrotropism — oriented growth in response to water.
- hymenoplasty — (medicine) Plastic surgery affecting a woman's hymen, usually involving reconstruction to the unbroken condition ordinarily characteristic of virginity.
- hymenopteran — hymenopterous.
- hymenopteron — hymenopteran.
- hyperchaotic — Of or pertaining to hyperchaos.
- hypercoaster — Megacoaster.