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12-letter words containing r, o, t, h

  • phytotherapy — the use of plants and plant products for medicinal purposes
  • pictographic — a pictorial sign or symbol.
  • picture show — motion picture.
  • picturephone — a type of telephone where users can see each other as they talk, through the transmission of video images
  • pinturicchio — real name Bernardino di Betto. ?1454–1513, Italian painter of the Umbrian school
  • pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
  • plasma torch — an electrical device for converting a gas into a plasma, used for melting metal
  • play through — to pass another foursome or group with their permission, while playing a round of golf
  • ploughwright — a person who makes ploughs
  • pneumothorax — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • poikilotherm — an organism with poikilothermic qualities
  • point charge — an electric charge considered to exist at a single point, and thus having neither area nor volume.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
  • polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • polyhistoric — relating to a polyhistor
  • polyrhythmic — the simultaneous occurrence of sharply contrasting rhythms within a composition.
  • polytriglyph — (in classical architecture) an intercolumniation of at least four triglyphs.
  • polyurethane — a thermoplastic polymer containing the group NHCOO: used for padding and insulation in furniture, clothing, and packaging, and in the manufacture of resins for adhesives, elastomers, and fillers.
  • pork butcher — a butcher who specializes in pork
  • port chester — a city in SE New York, on Long Island Sound.
  • port hueneme — a city in S California.
  • porthole die — a die having several openings for the extrusion of separate parts of an object later formed by the welding or fusing together of these parts.
  • post-harvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
  • postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
  • poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
  • postworkshop — occurring after a workshop
  • powder chest — a small wooden box containing a charge of powder, old nails, scrap iron, etc., formerly secured over the side of a ship and exploded on the attempt of an enemy to board.
  • praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
  • preauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
  • prehistorian — an authority on or specialist in prehistory
  • preneolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
  • prepsychotic — exhibiting behavior that indicates the approach of a psychotic reaction.
  • prester john — a legendary Christian monk and potentate of the Middle Ages, supposed to have had a kingdom in some remote part of Asia or Africa and associated with fabulous narratives of travel.
  • prior to sth — If something happens prior to a particular time or event, it happens before that time or event.
  • pro-catholic — of or relating to a Catholic church, especially the Roman Catholic Church.
  • procathedral — a church used temporarily as a cathedral.
  • process shot — a shot in which action takes place in front of a screen on which an image already filmed is projected
  • promethazine — a phenothiaxine derivative, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 2 S, used for the symptomatic relief of allergies and in the management of motion sickness.
  • proof sheets — trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) read for the correction of errors; proofs
  • proof theory — (logic)   The branch of logic describing procedures for combining logical statements to show, by a series of truth-preserving transformations, that one statement is a consequence of some other statement or group of statements.
  • propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
  • prophylactic — defending or protecting from disease or infection, as a drug.
  • prostanthera — any bush of the Australian genus Prostanthera, with red or white flowers and strongly scented leaves
  • prothalamion — a song or poem written to celebrate a marriage.
  • prothalamium — prothalamion.
  • prothonotary — a chief clerk or official in certain courts of law.
  • protohistory — a branch of study concerned with the transition period between prehistory and the earliest recorded history.
  • protomorphic — having a primitive character or structure.
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