12-letter words containing s, p, h
- apotheosized — Simple past tense and past participle of apotheosize.
- apparatchiks — a member of an apparat, especially in a Communist country.
- apple-polish — to curry favor with someone, especially in an obsequious or flattering manner.
- apprehension — Apprehension is a feeling of fear that something bad may happen.
- apprehensive — Someone who is apprehensive is afraid that something bad may happen.
- araneomorphs — Plural form of araneomorph.
- arch support — a rigid support placed inside a shoe so that its molded form fits the arch of the foot and relieves strain on the muscles of the foot while walking, standing, etc.
- archesporial — the primitive cell, or group of cells, that give rise to the cells from which spores are derived.
- archesporium — archespore.
- archipelagos — Plural form of archipelago.
- arctophilist — a collector of teddy bears
- aristophanes — ?448–?380 bc, Greek comic dramatist, who satirized leading contemporary figures such as Socrates and Euripides. Eleven of his plays are extant, including The Clouds, The Frogs, The Birds, and Lysistrata
- aristophanic — 448?–385? b.c, Athenian comic dramatist.
- arsphenamine — a drug containing arsenic, formerly used in the treatment of syphilis and related infections
- arthroplasty — surgical repair of a diseased joint
- arthroscopes — Plural form of arthroscope.
- arthroscopic — the use of an arthroscope to diagnose an injury to or disease of a joint or to perform minor surgery on a joint.
- arthrospores — an isolated vegetative cell that has passed into a resting state, occurring in bacteria and not regarded as a true spore.
- ashurbanipal — died ?626 bc, king of Assyria (?668–?626): son of Esarhaddon. He built the magnificent palace and library at Nineveh
- asphalt rock — a rock formation, usually of limestone or sandstone, containing large amounts of bitumens.
- asphyxiating — to produce asphyxia in.
- asphyxiation — Asphyxiation is a lack of oxygen in blood, which causes suffocation.
- assessorship — the occupation, post or duties of a person who assesses, advises, or estimates
- astrophysics — Astrophysics is the study of the physical and chemical structure of the stars, planets, and other natural objects in space.
- at the press — being printed
- athwartships — from one side to the other of a vessel at right angles to the keel
- atmospherics — Atmospherics are elements in something such as a piece of music or a book which create a certain atmosphere.
- atmospherium — an optical system used to simulate images of atmospheric phenomena, as cloud formations, storms, and day and night, on the inside of a dome.
- attorneyship — The office or profession of an attorney.
- australopith — (archaeology, anthropology, paleonotology) Of or pertaining to the extinct hominid primates, of the genus Australopithecus, from the Pleistocene period.
- autohypnosis — the process or result of self-induced hypnosis
- automorphism — the practice of seeing others as having the same characteristics as oneself
- bachelorship — the state of being a bachelor; bachelorhood
- backsplashes — Plural form of backsplash.
- banach space — a vector space on which a norm is defined that is complete.
- barophoresis — the diffusion of suspended particles at a rate dependent on external forces
- bathophilous — (of an organism) living in very deep water
- bathyscaphes — Plural form of bathyscaphe.
- bathyspheres — Plural form of bathysphere.
- betting shop — A betting shop is a place where people can go to bet on something such as a horse race.
- bicycle shop — a shop that sells and usually repairs bicycles and bicycle parts
- bishop's-cap — any of a genus (Mitella) of small woodland plants of the saxifrage family, with two-lobed seedcases shaped like a bishop's hat
- blastosphere — blastula
- blimpishness — actions or behaviour akin to those of the fictional character of Colonel Blimp, or the quality of resembling this character
- boatsmanship — seamanship as applied to boats, especially rowboats and motorboats.
- bog asphodel — either of two liliaceous plants, Narthecium ossifragum of Europe or N. americanum of North America, that grow in boggy places and have small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves
- breastplough — a plough driven by the worker's breast, often used to pare turf
- bright spark — If you say that some bright spark had a particular idea or did something, you mean that their idea or action was clever, or that it seemed clever but was silly in some way.
- brine shrimp — any of a genus (Artemia) of small fairy shrimp found in salt lakes and marshes and used as living, frozen, or dried food in aquariums
- brinkmanship — Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success.