13-letter words containing s, t, a, r, h, p
- speleotherapy — a form of treatment for asthma sufferers that takes place in clinics in disused mines, in which the air is free of pollen, dust mites, and the other irritants that provoke an allergic reaction; used to reduce the risk of heart disease
- spermatophore — a capsule surrounding a mass of spermatozoa, produced by the male of various animal species and transferred to the female.
- spermatophyte — any of the Spermatophyta, a primary division or group of plants comprising those that bear seeds.
- spermatorrhea — abnormally frequent and involuntary nonorgasmic emission of semen.
- sportsmanship — the character, practice, or skill of a sportsman.
- stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
- star sapphire — a sapphire, cut cabochon, exhibiting asterism in the form of a colorless six-rayed star.
- steeplechaser — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
- steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
- stereographer — a person who takes stereoscopic photographs.
- straighten up — stand straighter
- stratigraphic — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
- stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
- striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
- strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
- super-wealthy — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
- tapestry moth — carpet moth.
- taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
- tauromorphous — having the form of a bull
- teacher's pet — a pupil who is a favorite of a teacher.
- terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
- the best part — If you say that something happened for the best part or the better part of a period of time, you mean that it happened for most of that time.
- the pole star — the star closest to the N celestial pole at any particular time. At present this is Polaris, but it will eventually be replaced by some other star owing to precession of the earth's axis
- the spiritual — the realm of spirits
- the-spectator — a weekly periodical (1711–12, 1714) issued by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
- theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
- thermoplastic — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thigh-slapper — a very funny joke, remark, story, or incident.
- thoracoplasty — the operation removing selected portions of the ribs to collapse part of the underlying lung or an abnormal pleural space, usually in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- thysanopteran — Also, thysanopterous. belonging or pertaining to the insect order Thysanoptera, comprising the thrips.
- thysanopteron — thysanopteran.
- tracheophytes — any plant of the former division Tracheophyta, comprising all the vascular plants.
- trachycarpous — having rough-skinned fruit.
- training ship — a ship equipped for training novices in seamanship, as for naval service.
- transshipping — to transfer from one ship, truck, freight car, or other conveyance to another.
- treasurership — a person in charge of treasure or a treasury.
- trip a switch — to activate (a mechanical trip)
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
- truchas peaks — group of mountains in N New Mexico, NE of Santa Fe in the S Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
- ultraphysical — extremely physical
- up to scratch — to break, mar, or mark the surface of by rubbing, scraping, or tearing with something sharp or rough: to scratch one's hand on a nail.
- uttar pradesh — a state in N India: a former province of British India. 93,933 sq. mi. (243,286 sq. km). Capital: Lucknow.
- weather strip — a thin strip of compressible material, such as spring metal, felt, etc, that is fitted between the frame of a door or window and the opening part to exclude wind and rain
- weather-strip — to apply weather stripping to (something).
- weatherperson — a meteorologist or weathercaster.
- weatherproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weatherproof.
- weatherstrips — Plural form of weatherstrip.
- with pleasure — gladly, willingly
- xiphiplastral — pertaining to or comprising a xiphiplastron
- xiphiplastron — the fourth lateral plate of a turtle's plastron