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11-letter words containing s, t, p, i

  • greasepaint — an oily mixture of melted tallow or grease and a pigment, used by actors, clowns, etc., for making up their faces.
  • guttersnipe — a person belonging to or characteristic of the lowest social group in a city.
  • haemoptysis — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hemoptysis.
  • haruspicate — of or relating to a haruspex
  • headstripes — Plural form of headstripe.
  • helicopters — Plural form of helicopter.
  • heliophytes — a plant that grows best in full sunlight.
  • heliotropes — Plural form of heliotrope.
  • hemipterans — Plural form of hemipteran.
  • hemipterous — belonging or pertaining to the Hemiptera, an order of insects having forewings that are thickened and leathery at the base and membranous at the apex, comprising the true bugs.
  • hepatitis a — a normally minor form of hepatitis caused by an RNA virus that does not persist in the blood: usually transmitted by ingestion of contaminated food or water.
  • hepatitis b — a form of hepatitis caused by a DNA virus (hepatitis B virus, or HBV) that persists in the blood, characterized by a long incubation period: usually transmitted by sexual contact or by injection or ingestion of infected blood or other bodily fluids.
  • hepatitis c — a form of hepatitis with clinical effects similar to those of hepatitis B, caused by a blood-borne retrovirus (hepatitis C virus) that may be of the hepatitis non-A, non-B type.
  • heptarchies — Plural form of heptarchy.
  • heptarchist — A ruler of one division of a heptarchy.
  • heptastichs — Plural form of heptastich.
  • heteroptics — incorrect or perverted perception of what is seen; hallucinatory vision.
  • hierophants — Plural form of hierophant.
  • high priest — a chief priest.
  • hip-shooter — a person who acts or talks in a rash, impetuous way
  • hippeastrum — any plant of the South American amaryllidaceous genus Hippeastrum: cultivated for their large funnel-shaped typically red flowers
  • hippiatrics — the study of the diseases of horses
  • hippiatrist — someone who treats the diseases of horses
  • hippocrates — ("Father of Medicine") c460–c377 b.c, Greek physician.
  • hippodamist — a horse-tamer
  • hippologist — the study of horses.
  • hipsterisms — a usually young person who is trendy, stylish, or progressive in an unconventional way; someone who is hip.
  • hispanicist — Hispanist.
  • histography — a treatise on or description of organic tissues.
  • histotrophy — A form of matrotrophy exhibited by some live-bearing sharks and rays, in which the developing embryo receives additional nutrition from its mother in the form of uterine secretions called histotroph.
  • holophytism — the property of being holophytic
  • holy spirit — the spirit of God.
  • homoplastic — correspondence in form or structure, owing to a similar environment.
  • horoscopist — One versed in horoscopy; an astrologer.
  • hospitalise — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hospitalize.
  • hospitalism — hospital conditions having an adverse effect on patients.
  • hospitalist — a physician who specializes in treating hospitalized patients; a specialist in inpatient medicine.
  • hospitality — the friendly reception and treatment of guests or strangers.
  • hospitalize — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
  • hospitaller — a member of the religious and military order (Knights Hospitalers or Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) originating about the time of the first Crusade (1096–99) and taking its name from a hospital at Jerusalem.
  • hospitalman — an enlisted person working as a hospital assistant; corpsman.
  • hot springs — city in central Ark., adjoining a national park: the park has 47 hot mineral springs: pop. 36,000
  • hylopathism — the theory that understands matter as conscious or receptive to feeling
  • hylopathist — an adherent of hylopathism
  • hyperbolist — One who uses hyperbole; an exaggerator.
  • hyperscript — Informix. The object-based programming language for Wingz, used for creating charts, graphs, graphics, and customised data entry.
  • hyperstatic — redundant (def 5b).
  • hyperstrict — A function which is hyperstrict in some argument will fully evaluate that argument. To fully evaluate an object, evaluate it to WHNF and if it is a constructed data object (e.g. a list or tuple) then fully evaluate every component and so on recursively. Thus a hyperstrict function will fail to terminate if its argument or any component or sub-component of its argument fails to terminate (i.e. if its argument is not "total").
  • hypesthesia — an abnormally weak sense of pain, heat, cold, or touch.
  • hypnotising — Present participle of hypnotise.
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