16-letter words containing a, p, t, h, e, i
- psychogeriatrics — the psychology of old age.
- purchasing agent — a person who buys materials, supplies, equipment, etc., for a company.
- put in the shade — to appear better than (another); surpass
- rhine palatinate — See under Palatinate (def 1).
- saint-john perse — (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- shag pile carpet — a large piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor
- sheepskin jacket — a short jacket made of the skin of a sheep with the wool still attached to it
- shifting spanner — an adjustable spanner
- slap in the face — smack on the cheek
- sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
- sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
- sodium phosphate — Also called monobasic sodium phosphate. a white, crystalline, slightly hygroscopic, water-soluble powder, NaH 2 PO 4 , used chiefly in dyeing and in electroplating.
- south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
- southern baptist — a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in Augusta, Georgia, in 1845, that is strictly Calvinistic and active in religious publishing and education.
- spaghetti squash — a variety of a widely cultivated squash, Cucurbita pepo, having edible flesh in the form of spaghettilike strands.
- spanish chestnut — Castanea sativa
- spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
- spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
- speech therapist — sb who treats speaking disorders
- spin the platter — a game in which one member of a group spins a platter on its edge and a designated member must catch it before it falls or pay a forfeit.
- spiritual healer — a faith healer
- spreader-ditcher — a machine for shaping and cleaning roadbeds and ditches and for freeing tracks of ice and snow by plowing and digging.
- stannic sulphide — an insoluble solid compound of tin usually existing as golden crystals or as a yellowish-brown powder: used as a pigment. Formula: SnS2
- stephen f austin — Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
- superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
- system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
- the devil to pay — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
- thermoacidophile — any organism, especially a type of archaebacterium, that thrives in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures.
- thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- thinking pattern — manner of thinking
- three-point play — a play in which a player sinks the free throw that was awarded when the player was fouled while scoring a basket.
- thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
- tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
- to coin a phrase — You say 'to coin a phrase' to show that you realize you are making a pun or using a cliché.
- to pass the time — If you do something to pass the time you do it because you have some time available and not because you really want to do it.
- topsail schooner — a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.
- triphenylmethane — a colorless, crystalline, solid compound containing three benzene rings, C 19 H 16 , from which many dyes are derived.
- two-tailed pasha — a distinctive vanessid butterfly of S Europe, Charaxes jasius, having mottled brown wings with a yellow-orange margin and frilled hind edges
- underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
- up with the lark — up early in the morning
- ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
- walk a tightrope — be in a precarious position
- washing-up water — water used for washing dishes
- watch this space — Journalists write 'Watch this space' in order to indicate in an informal way that they will be giving more information about something in the future.
- water chinquapin — an American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, having pale-yellow flowers and an edible seed.
- weatherstripping — A piece of weatherstrip material.
- white propaganda — propaganda that comes from the source it claims to come from
- wipe off the map — to put out of existence