12-letter words containing u, p, h, o, l
- posthumously — arising, occurring, or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award for bravery.
- prothalamium — prothalamion.
- psychosexual — of or relating to the relationship of psychological and sexual phenomena.
- public house — British. a tavern.
- pull through — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- purple heron — an Old World heron, Ardea purpurea, having maroon, buff, and black plumage.
- push polling — the use of loaded questions in a supposedly objective telephone opinion poll during a political campaign in order to bias voters against an opposing candidate
- put flesh on — If you put flesh on something, you add details and more information to it.
- pyrosulphate — any salt of pyrosulphuric acid
- reupholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
- rhizophilous — (esp of insects) preferring to live or grow near or on roots
- scrophularia — a member of a genus of flowering plants which have a square stem and are known as figworts
- shoulder pad — clothing: insert in shoulder
- slip through — be undetected
- south platte — a river flowing NE from central Colorado to the Platte River in W Nebraska. 424 miles (683 km) long.
- sulphadoxine — an antibiotic drug of the sulphonamide group, commonly used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria, and in combination with various drugs to treat certain infections
- sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
- sulphonation — the action or process of converting or being converted into a sulphonate
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- thermocouple — a device that consists of the junction of two dissimilar metallic conductors, as copper and iron, in which an electromotive force is induced when the conductors are maintained at different temperatures, the force being related to the temperature difference: used to determine the temperature of a third substance by connecting it to the junction of the metals and measuring the electromotive force produced.
- thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- tropophilous — adapted to a climate characterized by marked environmental changes.
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unpolishable — incapable of being made smooth or shiny
- unworshipful — not worshipful; not showing reverence or admiration
- upper school — a scholastic division, especially in a private school, including the terminal secondary grades.
- worshipfully — In a worshipful manner; reverentially.