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15-letter words containing a, y, r, s, h

  • kentish tracery — tracery, originating in Kent in the 14th century, having cusps with split ends.
  • labyrinthodonts — Plural form of labyrinthodont.
  • laser chemistry — the use of a laser to initiate and control chemical reactions.
  • lose your heart — If you lose your heart to someone, you fall in love with them.
  • machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
  • masculine rhyme — a rhyme of but a single stressed syllable, as in disdain, complain.
  • maundy thursday — the Thursday of Holy Week, commemorating Jesus' Last Supper and His washing of the disciples' feet upon that day.
  • medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
  • merry christmas — well-wishes for Christmas season
  • microphysically — in a microphysical manner
  • military school — military academy.
  • monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
  • moreton bay ash — an Australian eucalyptus tree, E. tessellaris, having drooping branches and grey bark
  • morphosyntactic — involving both morphology and syntax.
  • nasopharyngitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the nasal passages, and of the upper pharynx.
  • natural history — the sciences, as botany, mineralogy, or zoology, dealing with the study of all objects in nature: used especially in reference to the beginnings of these sciences in former times.
  • nearly-new shop — a shop that sells secondhand clothes and other objects
  • neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.
  • nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
  • nonpsychiatrist — a person who is not a psychiatrist
  • north bay shore — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
  • northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
  • nuclear physics — the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, structure, and component parts of atomic nuclei.
  • oligohydramnios — (medicine) A deficit of amniotic fluid in the amniotic sac, causing distinctive deformations of the foetus.
  • ordinary shares — British. a share of common stock.
  • orthopsychiatry — an approach to psychiatry concerned with the study and treatment of behavioral disorders, especially of young people.
  • oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
  • parasympathetic — pertaining to that part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves and ganglia that arise from the cranial and sacral regions and function in opposition to the sympathetic system, as in inhibiting heartbeat or contracting the pupil of the eye.
  • phosphorylation — to introduce the phosphoryl group into (an organic compound).
  • phosphorylative — of or relating to phosphorylation
  • physical memory — (memory management)   The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
  • physiotherapist — physical therapy.
  • plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
  • polysomnography — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
  • psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
  • psychiatrically — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
  • psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
  • psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
  • psychographical — relating to psychographics
  • psychohistorian — a person who writes psychohistory
  • psychotherapist — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
  • ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
  • ray of sunshine — beam of sunlight
  • ray-finned fish — any of various bony fishes of the subclass Actinopterygii, having strong slender rays, excluding the coelacanth and lungfish.
  • ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
  • release therapy — psychotherapy in which the patient finds emotional release in the expression of hostilities and emotional conflicts.
  • rhyme or reason — If something happens or is done without rhyme or reason, there seems to be no logical reason for it to happen or be done.
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • saccharomycetes — a collective name for yeasts
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