15-letter words containing a, p, h, t, e
- shark repellent — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
- 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
- ship's manifest — a list of the shipments or cargo that a vessel is carrying
- shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
- 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
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- 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.
- southern paiute — See under Paiute (def 2).
- space character — a keyed space in text or data
- spaghetti strap — a thin, often rounded strip of fabric used in women's clothing, as to form a shoulder strap on a bare-shouldered garment.
- spanish bayonet — any of certain plants belonging to the genus Yucca, of the agave family, having narrow, spine-tipped leaves and a cluster of white flowers.
- spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
- speaking as sth — You can say 'speaking as a parent' or 'speaking as a teacher', for example, to indicate that the opinion you are giving is based on your experience as a parent or as a teacher.
- speaking of sth — You can say speaking of something that has just been mentioned as a way of introducing a new topic which has some connection with that thing.
- spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
- speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
- sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
- spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
- spill the beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
- sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
- spread the word — make others aware
- step on the gas — accelerate, drive faster
- stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
- 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
- stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- stretcher party — a group of stretcher bearers and the stretchers they are carrying
- substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
- swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
- sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
- sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
- sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
- sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
- take the pledge — a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war.
- take the plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
- 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.
- teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
- thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
- thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
- the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
- the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- the disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
- the grim reaper — death
- the handicapped — those who are physically disabled or mentally retarded