12-letter words containing s, h, t, p
- lamplighters — Plural form of lamplighter.
- 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.
- liberty ship — a slow cargo ship built in large numbers for the U.S. merchant marine during World War II and having a capacity of about 11,000 deadweight tons.
- listenership — the people or number of people who listen to a radio station, record, type of music, etc.: The station has a listenership of 200,000.
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
- 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
- lithospheric — Of or pertaining to the lithosphere.
- loutrophoros — Greek and Roman Antiquity. a water jar, characterized by an elongated neck and flaring mouth, used to carry water for the marriage bath and set on the tomb of a person who had been unmarried.
- lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
- luteal phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, lasting about two weeks, from ovulation to the beginning of the next menstrual flow.
- lycanthropes — Plural form of lycanthrope.
- lymph system — Anatomy, Zoology. the system by which lymph is returned from the cells to the blood and by which white blood cells are produced in response to inflammation or presence of antigens; in mammals, the system includes the lymph glands, vessels and sinuses through which lymph is carried, and lymphoid tissues, as bone marrow and the thymus.
- lymphangitis — inflammation of the lymphatic vessels.
- lymphoblasts — Plural form of lymphoblast.
- massotherapy — treatment by massage.
- mastigophora — a phylum of protozoans comprising nonphotosynthetic, chiefly free-living flagellates: some species are important pathogens of humans and other animals.
- mastigophore — Any flagellate of the phylum Mastigophora.
- matopo hills — the granite hills south of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where Cecil Rhodes chose to be buried
- mediatorship — the position of a mediator
- meganthropus — a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.
- mephibosheth — a son of Jonathan, and the grandson of Saul. II Sam 4:4.
- metal polish — cleaning fluid designed to clean, polish or add shine to metal
- metamorphism — Geology. a change in the structure or constitution of a rock due to natural agencies, as pressure and heat, especially when the rock becomes harder and more completely crystalline.
- metamorphist — a member of a group of 16th century Christians who believed that the humanly body of Jesus Christ metamorphosed into God during the Ascension
- metamorphose — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- metamorphous — metamorphic.
- metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
- metaphrastic — a person who translates or changes a literary work from one form to another, as prose into verse.
- metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- metapsychics — the study of psychic phenomena beyond the limits of ordinary or orthodox psychology
- ministership — (government) The position held by a minister.
- mis-shipment — a quantity of freight or cargo shipped at one time.
- misanthropes — Plural form of misanthrope.
- misanthropic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a misanthrope.
- monophthongs — Plural form of monopthong.
- monophysites — Plural form of monophysite.
- monophysitic — Of or pertaining to monophysitism.
- monostrophic — consisting of stanzas or strophes all having the same metrical structure.
- morphologist — the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
- morphosyntax — the study of the morphological and syntactic properties of linguistic or grammatical units.
- mount pisgah — the mountain slopes to the northeast of the Dead Sea, from one of which, Mount Nebo, Moses viewed Canaan
- mustache cup — a cup having a straight piece inside, just below the rim, for holding back a man's mustache while he is drinking.
- mutton chops — side whiskers trimmed in the shape of chops, widening out from the temples
- mythopoiesis — (mythology) the creation of myth.
- naughty step — a place where a child is made to stand as a punishment for bad behaviour
- nephrologist — A physician whose speciality is nephrology.
- nephroptosis — An abnormal condition in which the kidney drops down into the pelvis when the patient stands up.