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11-letter words containing s, h, t, u, p

  • persulphate — a sulphuric acid salt of a base peroxide
  • phd student — a person who is studying for a PhD
  • phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
  • pilot house — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
  • plattsburgh — a city in NE New York, on Lake Champlain: battle, 1814.
  • ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
  • port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
  • porterhouse — Also called porterhouse steak. a choice cut of beef from between the prime ribs and the sirloin.
  • potash alum — alum1 (def 1).
  • prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
  • publishment — publication.
  • puppet show — an entertainment, as a play or musical revue, in which the performers are puppets.
  • push-button — operated by or as if by push buttons: push-button tuning.
  • pythonesque — denoting a kind of humour that is absurd and unpredictable; zany; surreal
  • reupholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
  • rubbish tip — dump for refuse
  • set up shop — a retail store, especially a small one.
  • shine up to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
  • shoot'em-up — a book, film, TV show, video game, etc. characterized by much violent content, gunplay, etc., esp. one in the western, crime, or war genres
  • shoot-em-up — A shoot-em-up is a computer game that involves shooting and killing characters.
  • shot putter — a sportsperson who competes in the shot put
  • shot-putter — a participant in shot put.
  • southampton — Henry Wriothesley [rahy-uh ths-lee] /ˈraɪ əθs li/ (Show IPA), 3rd Earl of, 1573–1624, English nobleman, soldier, and patron of writers, including William Shakespeare.
  • spathaceous — of the nature of or resembling a spathe.
  • spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
  • steeplebush — the hardhack.
  • stop chorus — a solo during which the rhythm section plays only the first beat of each phrase of music
  • straight up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • straight-up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • studentship — the state or condition of being a student.
  • stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
  • subjectship — the state of being a subject or citizen
  • sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
  • sulphurwort — an umbelliferous perennial plant, Peucedanum officinale, of which the roots produce a smell like that of sulphur
  • super-earth — a hypothetical planet larger than the earth but smaller than the four gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus, thought to be orbiting the sun beyond the Kuiper belt but nearer than the Oort cloud: its existence is suggested by two known dwarf planets in a similar orbit
  • superbright — exceptionally bright
  • supergrowth — exceptional growth; very rapid growth
  • superheated — If a liquid is superheated, it has been heated to a temperature that is higher than its boiling point without being allowed to boil.
  • supersleuth — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
  • supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
  • switch plug — a plug, as for an electric iron, equipped with an on-off switch.
  • sympathique — pleasing or congenial
  • telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
  • the support — an actor or group of actors playing subordinate roles
  • the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
  • theophagous — relating to theophagy or the practice of symbolically consuming the body of God or a god
  • theophanous — a manifestation or appearance of God or a god to a person.
  • theopneusty — divine inspiration; the influence of God's spirit enabling humans to receive a divine truth
  • thrust upon — If something is thrust upon you, you are forced to have it, deal with it, or experience it.
  • tool pusher — A tool pusher is someone who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig.
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