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12-letter words containing s, h, i, l, o

  • phlebotomist — a specialist in phlebotomy.
  • phosphatidyl — an atom or group of atoms containing one or more unpaired electrons derived from a phosphatide
  • phospholipid — any of a group of fatty compounds, as lecithin, composed of phosphoric esters, and occurring in living cells.
  • photoelastic — displaying photoelasticity; of or relating to photoelasticity
  • photophilous — of or relating to an organism, as a plant, that is receptive to, seeks, or thrives in light.
  • photorealism — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • phrenologist — a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull.
  • phycologists — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
  • phylogenesis — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
  • physiologies — the branch of biology dealing with the functions and activities of living organisms and their parts, including all physical and chemical processes.
  • physiologist — a specialist in physiology.
  • plainclothes — Plainclothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • pleiochasium — a flowering system in which several buds come out at the same time
  • pleomorphism — existence of an organism in two or more distinct forms during the life cycle; polymorphism.
  • polar lights — the aurora borealis in the Northern Hemisphere or the aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
  • pollyannaish — an excessively or blindly optimistic person.
  • polygraphist — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
  • polyhedrosis — an often fatal disease of certain insect larvae or decapod crustaceans, caused by viruses containing DNA.
  • polyhistoric — relating to a polyhistor
  • polymorphism — the state or condition of being polymorphous.
  • 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
  • polytheistic — pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods: Science thrived in the polytheistic culture of ancient Greece.
  • 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.
  • posthospital — following treatment in a hospital
  • prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
  • preschooling — the education of preschool children.
  • psephologist — A psephologist studies how people vote in elections.
  • psychologism — emphasis upon psychological factors in the development of a theory, as in history or philosophy.
  • psychologist — a specialist in psychology.
  • psychologize — to make psychological investigations or speculations, especially those that are naive or uninformed.
  • psychosocial — of or relating to the interaction between social and psychological factors.
  • 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
  • reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
  • relationship — a connection, association, or involvement.
  • rhizophilous — (esp of insects) preferring to live or grow near or on roots
  • rhode island — US state
  • saccharoidal — having a crystalline or granular texture: said esp. of some sandstones and marbles
  • sail through — If someone or something sails through a difficult situation or experience, they deal with it easily and successfully.
  • scalding hot — that scalds; burning; too hot
  • schistosomal — relating to or characteristic of a schistosome or member of the genus Schistosoma
  • school night — any night of the week that precedes a day of school
  • schoolboyish — like or characteristic of a schoolboy
  • scopophiliac — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • scoptophilia — the obtaining of sexual pleasure by looking at nude bodies, erotic photographs, etc.
  • scrophularia — a member of a genus of flowering plants which have a square stem and are known as figworts
  • self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
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