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16-letter words containing a, l, p, h, i, s

  • open scholarship — a scholarship which anyone can apply for
  • ophthalmologists — Plural form of ophthalmologist.
  • ophthalmoparesis — (medicine) A partial or complete paralysis of the extraocular muscles which are responsible for eye movements.
  • parochial school — a primary or secondary private school supervised by a religious organization, especially a Roman Catholic day school affiliated with a parish or a holy order.
  • particle physics — the branch of physics that deals with the properties and behavior of elementary particles.
  • pavillon chinois — crescent (def 6).
  • pearly razorfish — See under razorfish.
  • pencil sharpener — tool for sharpening pencils to a point
  • pentothal sodium — thiopental sodium
  • personal hygiene — bodily cleanliness
  • phalansterianism — a system by which society would be reorganized into units comprising their own social and industrial elements; Fourierism.
  • phantasmagorical — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
  • phase modulation — radio transmission in which the carrier wave is modulated by changing its phase to transmit the amplitude and pitch of the signal.
  • philanthropistic — a person who practices philanthropy.
  • philip of swabia — 1180?–1208, king of Germany and uncrowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1198–1208 (son of Frederick I).
  • phillis wheatley — Phillis [fil-is] /ˈfɪl ɪs/ (Show IPA), 1753?–84, American poet, born in Africa; probably Senegal.
  • physical address — (memory management)   The address presented to a computer's main memory in a virtual memory system, in contrast to the virtual address which is the address generated by the CPU. A memory management unit translates virtual addresses into physical addresses.
  • physical fitness — good physical condition
  • physical science — any of the natural sciences dealing with inanimate matter or with energy, as physics, chemistry, and astronomy.
  • physical therapy — the treatment or management of physical disability, malfunction, or pain by exercise, massage, hydrotherapy, etc., without the use of medicines, surgery, or radiation.
  • physical-capital — tools, machinery, computers, and other equipment that are needed for the production of goods and services: money spent by business firms on physical capital.
  • physiognomically — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
  • place in the sun — (often initial capital letter) the star that is the central body of the solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 26 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.
  • place of worship — religious house: church, temple
  • plainclothes man — a detective or police officer who wears civilian clothes while on duty
  • plutarch's lives — (Parallel Lives) a collection (a.d. 105–15) by Plutarch of short biographies of the leading political figures of ancient Greece and Rome.
  • poisoned chalice — If you refer to a job or an opportunity as a poisoned chalice, you mean that it seems to be very attractive but you believe it will lead to failure.
  • post-elizabethan — of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times: Elizabethan diplomacy; Elizabethan music.
  • postencephalitic — inflammation of the substance of the brain.
  • price leadership — the setting of the price of a product or service by a dominant firm at a level that competitors can match, in order to avoid a price war
  • primary syphilis — the first stage of syphilis, characterized by the formation of a chancre at the site of infection.
  • pseudohemophilia — a clotting disorder caused by abnormal factor VIII activity, and characterized by a prolonged bleeding time but without the delayed coagulation time of hemophilia.
  • pseudohistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • psychoanalytical — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
  • psychobiological — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
  • put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
  • schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • shag pile carpet — a large piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor
  • sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
  • shepherd's plaid — a checkered black and white pattern
  • shipping channel — a navigational pathway that a ship uses to travel from one place to another
  • shopping channel — television station used to sell goods
  • shopping village — a shopping centre that designed to look like a village
  • slap in the face — smack on the cheek
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • social pathology — a social factor, as poverty, old age, or crime, that tends to increase social disorganization and inhibit personal adjustment.
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • spanish bluebell — a bulbous plant, Endymion hispanicus, of the lily family, native to Spain and Portugal, having blue, white, or pink, bell-shaped flowers.
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