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14-letter words containing a, l, e, t, h

  • ophthalmometry — the measurement and determination of the eye's defects and powers of refraction
  • ophthalmoscope — an instrument for viewing the interior of the eye or examining the retina.
  • orthomolecular — being or pertaining to the treatment of disease by increasing, decreasing, or otherwise controlling the intake of natural substances, especially vitamins. Compare megavitamin (def 1).
  • orthonormalize — (mathematics) To make a set of vectors both orthogonal and normalized.
  • otaheite apple — a Society Islands tree, Spondias cytherea, of the cashew family, having whitish flowers and yellow, edible, plumlike fruit.
  • outlandishness — The quality of being outlandish.
  • overhead light — a light which throws light downwards by being situated on the ceiling or having a downward shade, etc
  • owlet nightjar — any of several birds of the family Aegothelidae, of Australia and Papua New Guinea, related to the nightjars but resembling small owls.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • palaeanthropic — relating to or denoting the earliest variety of man
  • palaeethnology — the study of prehistoric man
  • paleoanthropic — pertaining to prehistoric humans.
  • paleontography — the formal description of fossils
  • pamphleteering — the occupation of a pamphleteer
  • panel lighting — lighting of a room or building by means of flat sheets of material that glow brightly when a coating of a phosphor is excited by an electrical charge.
  • parallel forth — Forth For the MPP.
  • paschal letter — (in the early Christian church) a letter, written by a patriarch, archbishop, or bishop to a cleric under his authority, announcing the date of the next Easter festival.
  • patent leather — a hard, glossy, smooth leather, used especially in shoes and accessories.
  • patheticalness — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • pavement light — a windowlike structure set in a pavement or the like to illuminate areas beneath, consisting of thick glass blocks set in a metal frame.
  • pebble-leather — a small, rounded stone, especially one worn smooth by the action of water.
  • pendulum watch — (formerly) a watch having a balance wheel, especially a balance wheel bearing a fake pendulum bob oscillating behind a window in the dial.
  • pentamethylene — cyclopentane.
  • pentland firth — a strait between N Scotland and the Orkney Islands, linking the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean: noted for its rough sea conditions. 14 miles (23 km) long.
  • petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • pharmaceutical — pertaining to pharmacy or pharmacists.
  • phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
  • phenotypically — the observable constitution of an organism.
  • phenyl acetate — a colorless, water-insoluble liquid, C 8 H 8 O 2 , having a phenolic odor: used chiefly as a solvent.
  • phenylbutazone — a potent substance, C 1 9 H 2 0 N 2 O 2 , used to reduce pain and inflammation in rheumatic diseases and gout, and used in veterinary medicine for musculoskeletal disorders.
  • phenylthiourea — a crystalline, slightly water-soluble solid, C 6 H 5 NHCSNH 2 , that is either tasteless or bitter, depending upon the heredity of the taster, and is used in medical genetics and as a diagnostic.
  • philanthropize — to treat (persons) in a philanthropic manner.
  • philosophaster — a person who has only a superficial knowledge of philosophy or who feigns a knowledge he or she does not possess.
  • photoduplicate — photocopy.
  • photorealistic — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • phototelegraph — of or relating to phototelegraphy
  • phthalocyanine — Also called metal-free phthalocyanine. a blue-green pigment, C 3 2 H 1 8 N 8 , derived from phthalic anhydride.
  • phyllosilicate — any silicate mineral having the tetrahedral silicate groups linked in sheets, each group containing four oxygen atoms, three of which are shared with other groups so that the ratio of silicon atoms to oxygen atoms is two to five.
  • pink elephants — a facetious name applied to hallucinations caused by drunkenness
  • pitched battle — a battle in which the orderly arrangement of armed forces and the location have been predetermined.
  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • platycephalous — flat-headed
  • play hell with — to throw into confusion and disorder; disrupt
  • play the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
  • play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
  • plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
  • poikilothermal — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
  • poikilothermia — Medicine/Medical. the inability to regulate core body temperature (as by sweating to cool off or by putting on clothes to warm up), found especially in some spinal cord injury patients and in patients under general anesthesia.
  • polar zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it at one of the poles
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