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15-letter words containing a, l, p, h, r, t

  • separate school — (in Canada) a school for a large religious minority financed by its rates and administered by its own school board but under the authority of the provincial department of education
  • shark repellent — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
  • 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
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • staphylorrhaphy — repair of a cleft palate by means of staphyloplasty and suturing
  • 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
  • telegraph plant — a tick trefoil, Desmodium motorium, of the legume family, native to tropical Asia, noted for the spontaneous, jerking, signallike motions of its leaflets.
  • telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • telephotography — photography of distant objects, using a telephoto lens.
  • thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
  • thalassographic — relating to thalassography
  • thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
  • the last supper — the supper of Jesus and His disciples on the eve of His Crucifixion. Compare Lord's Supper (def 1).
  • the other place — (at Oxford University) Cambridge University
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • therapeutically — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • thermal printer — a printer that produces output by selectively heating a heat-sensitive paper (thermal paper) in patterns corresponding to the characters to be produced.
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • truth-value gap — the possibility in certain semantic systems of a statement being neither true nor false while also not being determinately of any third truth-value, as all my children are asleep uttered by a childless person
  • typographically — of or relating to typography.
  • ultrasonography — a diagnostic imaging technique utilizing reflected high-frequency sound waves to delineate, measure, or examine internal body structures or organs.
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • walpurgis night — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
  • west hartlepool — a former borough, now part of Hartlepool, in Cleveland County, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tees.
  • whip-tailed ray — a whipray.
  • withdrawal slip — a small paper form which has to be filled in before making a withdrawal of money from a bank, building society, etc
  • xylotypographic — involving or pertaining to xylotypography
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