13-letter words containing s, o, p, h
- judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
- jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
- kosher pickle — a garlic-flavored pickle, sold especially in Jewish delicatessens.
- lace-up shoes — shoes which are fastened with laces
- lamellaphones — Plural form of lamellaphone.
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- lechosos opal — a variety of opal having a deep-green play of color.
- leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
- leptocephalus — a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
- leptophyllous — (of plants) having long slender leaves
- lipodystrophy — A disorder characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue.
- lithoglyptics — The art of cutting and engraving gems.
- lithotripters — Plural form of lithotripter.
- lithotriptist — a person skilled in breaking and removing stones from the bladder
- lophotrichous — (biology, of bacteria) Having multiple flagella located at the same point, so that they can act in concert to drive the bacterium in a single direction.
- lose the plot — go insane
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- lymphangiomas — Plural form of lymphangioma.
- lymphatolysis — destruction of lymphatic vessels or of lymphoid tissue.
- lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
- lymphocytosis — an abnormal increase in the number of lymphocytes in the blood.
- lymphomatosis — lymphoma spread throughout the body.
- lymphopoiesis — the formation of lymphocytes.
- lymphosarcoma — a malignant tumor in lymphatic tissue, caused by the growth of abnormal lymphocytes.
- macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
- magnetographs — Plural form of magnetograph.
- magnetosphere — the outer region of the earth's ionosphere, where the earth's magnetic field controls the motion of charged particles, as in the Van Allen belts. Compare magnetopause.
- mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.
- mastigophoric — Carrying or wielding a whip.
- medicine shop — (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines
- mesencephalon — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- mesocephalism — mesocephaly
- mesocephalous — Alternative form of mesocephalic.
- metallophones — Plural form of metallophone.
- metamorphosed — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- metamorphoses — a series of mythological tales or legends in verse (a.d. 7–8) by Ovid.
- metamorphosis — Biology. a profound change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism, as from the caterpillar to the pupa and from the pupa to the adult butterfly. Compare complete metamorphosis.
- metaphosphate — a salt or ester of metaphosphoric acid.
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- micrographics — the technique of photographing written or printed pages in reduced form to produce microfilm or microfiche.
- microphyllous — having microphylls
- misanthropist — a hater of humankind.
- miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
- moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
- monophosphate — a salt containing only one phosphate group.
- monophysitism — (Christianity) A Christian belief which holds that the human nature of Jesus Christ was essentially absorbed by the divine, and thus that he essentially had but one nature, contrary to the orthodox view that Christ has two natures, both fully human and fully divine. A variant is apollonarianism, which has gnostic overtones and used hellenistic ideas alien to orthodox Christianity.
- monostrophics — monostrophic verses
- monotherapies — Plural form of monotherapy.
- morpho-syntax — the study of the morphological and syntactic properties of linguistic or grammatical units.
- morphogenesis — the development of structural features of an organism or part.