15-letter words containing a, t, r, o, p, h
- reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.
- roentgenography — roentgenogram.
- saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- scrape together — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- scratching post — a block or post of wood, usually covered with carpeting, on which a cat can use its claws.
- 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
- shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
- shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
- somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
- southern paiute — See under Paiute (def 2).
- spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
- spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
- sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
- spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
- 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
- staphylorrhaphy — repair of a cleft palate by means of staphyloplasty and suturing
- 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.
- substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
- sumatra camphor — borneol.
- sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
- 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 other place — (at Oxford University) Cambridge University
- the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
- the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
- the upper karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
- theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
- thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
- thermogeography — the study of the geographical variation and distribution of temperature.
- thought pattern — habitual way of thinking
- thraco-phrygian — a hypothetical branch of Indo-European implying a special genetic affinity between the meagerly attested Thracian and Phrygian languages.
- topographic map — a map showing topographic features, usually by means of contour lines.
- trainspotterish — obsessed with trivial details, esp of a subject generally considered uninteresting
- 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
- weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
- west hartlepool — a former borough, now part of Hartlepool, in Cleveland County, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tees.
- xylotypographic — involving or pertaining to xylotypography