11-letter words containing s, h, o, p, i
- phosphorize — phosphorate (def 1).
- photomosaic — mosaic (def 4).
- photoresist — Electronics. a photosensitive liquid polymer, used in photolithography to produce integrated circuits.
- photostatic — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- phycologist — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- phyllotaxis — phyllotaxy.
- physiognomy — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
- physiolater — somebody who worships nature
- physiolatry — the worship of nature
- physiologic — of or relating to physiology.
- physiologus — an ancient Greek book containing stories and tales with moral content about real and mythical animals
- physiometry — measurement of the physiological functions of the body.
- phytotomist — someone who studies or who is an expert in phytotomy
- pillow sham — an ornamental cover laid over a bed pillow.
- pilot house — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- pistol shot — a shot fired from a pistol
- pistol-whip — to beat or hit (someone) repeatedly with a pistol, especially in the head and shoulder area.
- pitchperson — a pitchman or pitchwoman
- pleochroism — the property of certain crystals of exhibiting different colors when viewed from different directions under transmitted light. Compare dichroism (def 1), trichroism.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours
- polyhistory — the quality of a polyhistor
- polylithism — (programming) A property of a data-object that can exist in many shapes and sizes, but not simultaneously; which distinguishes it from a union. It is often implemented as a set of classes (or structs) derived from a common base class (or with a common header, as in the case of structs), typically without any methods. It has been loosely described as polymorphic data.
- polyphonist — a musical composer of or theorist in polyphony
- pooh sticks — a children's game: each player throws a stick into a stream from one side of a bridge and the winner is the person whose stick emerges first on the other side
- popish plot — an imaginary conspiracy against the crown of Great Britain on the part of English Roman Catholics, fabricated in 1678 by Titus Oates as a means of gaining power.
- post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
- postholiday — occurring after a holiday
- posttyphoid — occurring as a sequela of typhoid fever.
- potshotting — the act of taking potshots
- praetorship — the office of a praetor.
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- priest-hole — a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
- pro-british — of or relating to Great Britain or its inhabitants.
- pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
- prochronism — a chronological error in which a person, event, etc., is assigned a date earlier than the actual one; prolepsis.
- proctorship — a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prophesying — to foretell or predict.
- prophylaxis — Medicine/Medical. the preventing of disease. the prevention of a specific disease, as by studying the biological behavior, transmission, etc., of its causative agent and applying a series of measures against it.
- prosthetics — an artificial body part; a prosthesis: Hundreds of amputees volunteered to test the new prosthetics.
- prosthetist — a person skilled in making or fitting prosthetic devices.
- provostship — the office of a provost
- psammophile — a plant or animal that thrives in sand
- psilophytic — (of a plant) that grows well in the dry savannah
- psychobilly — loud frantic rockabilly music
- psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
- psychogenic — having origin in the mind or in a mental condition or process: a psychogenic disorder.
- psychologic — of or relating to psychology.