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14-letter words containing a, p, h, e, l, i

  • special school — A special school is a school for children who have some kind of serious physical or mental problem.
  • splash erosion — erosion caused by the impact of falling raindrops.
  • steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
  • sulphanilamide — a white odourless crystalline compound formerly used in medicine in the treatment of bacterial infections. Formula: NH2C6H4SO2NH2
  • telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • telepathically — communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception.
  • telephonically — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
  • the apple isle — Tasmania
  • the capitoline — the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome. The temple of Jupiter was on the southern summit and the ancient citadel on the northern summit
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the palaeozoic — the Palaeozoic era
  • the palatinate — either of two territories in SW Germany, once ruled by the counts palatine. Upper Palatinate is now in Bavaria; Lower or Rhine Palatinate is now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Hesse
  • the-suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • tip the scales — to exercise a decisive influence
  • triphenylamine — a molecule consisting of a nitrogen atom with three phenyl groups attached to it
  • unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
  • undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • unemphatically — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
  • unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
  • unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
  • variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
  • vexillographer — a person who designs or makes flags.
  • webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
  • wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles
  • whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.
  • white elephant — a possession unwanted by the owner but difficult to dispose of: Our Victorian bric-a-brac and furniture were white elephants.
  • xenophobically — relating to or exhibiting fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers.
  • xerophytically — As a xerophyte.
  • xiphihumeralis — a long pectoral muscle found only in felines
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