12-letter words containing s, y, r, p, h
- porphyropsin — a purple pigment occurring in the retina of the eye of certain freshwater fishes
- praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
- prayer shawl — a tallith.
- prepsychotic — exhibiting behavior that indicates the approach of a psychotic reaction.
- prophesyings — gatherings held to expound the prophecies of the Scriptures
- protohistory — a branch of study concerned with the transition period between prehistory and the earliest recorded history.
- protosynthex — A query system for English text.
- pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
- psychiatrist — a physician who practices psychiatry.
- psychography — the supposed writing of a spirit or medium
- psychometric — Psychology. psychometrics.
- psychotronic — of or relating to a genre of usually low-budget movies that includes horror, fantasy, science-fiction, and underground films.
- psychotropic — affecting mental activity, behavior, or perception, as a mood-altering drug.
- psychrometer — an instrument for determining atmospheric humidity by the reading of two thermometers, the bulb of one being kept moist and ventilated.
- psychrometry — the employment of the psychrometer.
- pyonephritis — suppurative inflammation of the kidney.
- pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
- pyrotechnics — the art of making fireworks.
- pyrotechnist — a person skilled in pyrotechnics, especially in the manufacture or use of fireworks.
- reupholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
- saprophytism — living and feeding on dead organic matter
- scintigraphy — the process of producing a scintigram.
- sclerophylly — the normal development of much sclerenchyma in the leaves of certain plants, as some desert plants, resulting in thickened, hardened foliage that resists loss of moisture.
- scrub typhus — an acute febrile disease characterized by severe headache, skin rash, chills, and swelling of the lymph nodes, caused by the bite of mites infected with the microorganism Rickettsia tsutsugamushi: occurs mainly in Asia, Australia, and the islands of the western Pacific
- search party — a group of persons conducting an organized search for someone or something lost or hidden.
- seismography — the scientific measuring and recording of the shock and vibrations of earthquakes.
- selenography — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- seraphically — of, like, or befitting a seraph.
- shadowgraphy — the production of a shadowgraph
- shepherd boy — male child who herds sheep
- siderography — the art or technique of engraving on steel.
- spatiography — the study of the characteristics of space beyond the atmosphere, including the mapping of the movements of celestial bodies and the recording of electrical, magnetic, and gravitational effects, especially those likely to affect missiles and spacecraft.
- spermaphytic — able to produce seeds
- spermophytic — able to produce seed
- sphenography — the art of writing in cuneiform characters.
- sphericality — the state of being a sphere
- sphygmograph — an instrument for recording the rapidity, strength, and uniformity of the arterial pulse.
- sphygmometer — a device which measures the rate of the pulse
- sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
- starch syrup — glucose (def 2).
- starch-syrup — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- stepmotherly — related to or having the characteristics of a stepmother
- stereography — the art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane.
- stratigraphy — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
- stylographic — of or relating to a stylograph.
- superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
- synchroscope — an instrument for determining the difference in phase between two related motions, as those of two aircraft engines or two electric generators.
- tachyphrasia — a communication disorder involving rapid, unintelligible speech
- tracheoscopy — examination of the interior of the trachea, as with a laryngoscope.
- trachypterus — a dealfish or ribbonfish