11-letter words containing u, p, h, o, l
- mesophilous — (of bacteria) growing best at moderate temperatures, between 25°C and 40°C.
- multiphoton — involving several photons
- neutrophile — (biology) Any organism that thrives in a relatively neutral pH.
- neutrophils — Plural form of neutrophil.
- nucleophile — of or relating to electron contribution in covalent bonding (opposed to electrophilic).
- oxysulphide — a compound containing an element combined with oxygen and sulphur
- panel house — a brothel having rooms with secret entrances, as sliding panels, for admitting panel thieves.
- perichylous — (of a plant) having water-storing tissue outside the green tissue
- phitsanulok — a city in central Thailand.
- photo album — bound book for photos
- physiologus — an ancient Greek book containing stories and tales with moral content about real and mythical animals
- pilot house — an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
- plott hound — an American hound having a brindled coat, used especially in hunting bears and wild boars.
- plough back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plough into — If something, for example a car, ploughs into something else, it goes out of control and crashes violently into it.
- ploughshare — the horizontal pointed cutting blade of a mouldboard plough
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- podophyllum — the dried rhizome of the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum, from which podophyllin is derived.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- polyphagous — Pathology. excessive desire to eat.
- polyphonous — Music. polyphonic composition; counterpoint.
- potash alum — alum1 (def 1).
- power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- preluncheon — a light meal before lunch
- prothallium — Botany. the gametophyte of ferns and related plants.
- proud flesh — granulation tissue.
- pulmobranch — a respiratory organ found in some invertebrates
- punchinello — a grotesque or absurd chief character in a puppet show of Italian origin: the prototype of Punch.
- put on hold — suspend
- pyrrhuloxia — a cardinallike grosbeak, Cardinalis (Pyrrhuloxia) sinuatus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, having a bill superficially resembling that of a parrot.
- reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- reupholster — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- sceuophylax — a keeper of sacred vessels
- sepulchrous — of the nature of a sepulchre
- sleep rough — to spend the night in the open; be without a home or without shelter
- sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
- sulphureous — of the yellow colour of sulphur
- sulphurwort — an umbelliferous perennial plant, Peucedanum officinale, of which the roots produce a smell like that of sulphur
- superschool — a large school
- telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
- tool pusher — A tool pusher is someone who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig.
- touch plate — a pewter plate belonging to a guild of pewterers and bearing samples of the touchmarks of all pewterers belonging to the guild.
- triphyllous — having three leaves.
- unhopefully — in an unhopeful manner
- up the pole — slightly mad
- upholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- upholsterer — a person whose business it is to upholster furniture and, sometimes, to furnish and put in place hangings, curtains, carpets, etc.
- upholstress — a female upholsterer
- xerophilous — Botany. growing in or adapted to dry, especially dry and hot, regions.
- xylophagous — Feeding on wood. (of insects etc.).