15-letter words containing a, l, p, h, i, s
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- plain of sharon — a plain in W Israel, between the Mediterranean and the hills of Samaria, extending from Haifa to Tel Aviv
- plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
- platyhelminthes — a phylum of worms having bilateral symmetry and a soft, usually flattened body, comprising the flatworms.
- polish notation — a logical notation that dispenses with the need for brackets by writing the logical constants as operators preceding their arguments
- pre-established — to establish beforehand.
- pseudo-chemical — of, used in, produced by, or concerned with chemistry or chemicals: a chemical formula; chemical agents.
- psychedelically — of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.
- psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
- psychiatrically — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- psychographical — relating to psychographics
- psychologically — of or relating to psychology.
- quasi-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- schlieffen plan — a plan intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries, devised by Alfred, Count von Schlieffen (1833–1913) in 1905
- sheffield plate — sheet copper with a cladding of silver.
- ship's articles — a type of contract by which sailors agree to the conditions, payment, etc, for the ship in which they are going to work
- shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
- sodium sulphate — a solid white substance that occurs naturally as thenardite and is usually used as the white anhydrous compound (salt cake) or the white crystalline decahydrate (Glauber's salt) in making glass, detergents, and pulp. Formula: Na2SO4
- sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
- spanish needles — (used with a singular or plural verb) a composite plant, Bidens bipinnata, having achenes with downwardly barbed awns.
- spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
- spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
- spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
- spill the beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- spit and polish — great care in maintaining smart appearance and crisp efficiency: The commander was concerned more with spit and polish than with the company's morale.
- stigmatophilist — a person who has stigmatophilia
- stirrup leather — the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
- sulphurous acid — an unstable acid produced when sulphur dioxide dissolves in water: used as a preservative for food and a bleaching agent. Formula: H2SO3
- sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- thalassographic — relating to thalassography
- the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
- tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
- unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended
- unphilosophical — not adhering to philosophical theory or principles
- walpurgis night — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- washing-up bowl — plastic bowl used for washing dishes
- washington palm — a palm tree, Washingtonia filifera, of California and Florida, having large fan-shaped leaves and small black fruits
- westphalian ham — a hard German ham with a distinctive flavor derived from being smoked over beechwood and juniper.
- whiplash injury — the lash of a whip.
- withdrawal slip — a small paper form which has to be filled in before making a withdrawal of money from a bank, building society, etc