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14-letter words containing c, a, p, s, h

  • nonsuch palace — a former royal palace in Cuddington in London: built in 1538 for Henry VIII; later visited by Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, and Charles II; demolished (1682–1702)
  • oceanographers — Plural form of oceanographer.
  • oesophagectomy — (surgery) the surgical procedure for the removal of all, or part of the oesophagus.
  • oesophagoscope — Alternative form of esophagoscope.
  • omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
  • operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
  • ophthalmoscope — an instrument for viewing the interior of the eye or examining the retina.
  • ophthalmoscopy — the use of or technique of using an ophthalmoscope.
  • opisthobranchs — Plural form of opisthobranch.
  • opisthographic — written on the front and back of a parchment or papyrus
  • orphan process — (operating system)   A Unix process whose original parent has terminated and which has become a child of "init(1)". Compare zombie.
  • orphans' court — a probate court in certain U.S. states.
  • oscillographic — Of or pertaining to an oscillograph.
  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
  • parapsychology — the branch of psychology that deals with the investigation of purportedly psychic phenomena, as clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, telepathy, and the like.
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • parish council — local administrative body
  • parish records — historical documents of a district
  • part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
  • paschal letter — (in the early Christian church) a letter, written by a patriarch, archbishop, or bishop to a cleric under his authority, announcing the date of the next Easter festival.
  • paschen series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
  • patheticalness — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • patriarchalism — a philosophy, form, or system of patriarchal government.
  • personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
  • petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
  • phallic symbol — any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, especially such an object that symbolizes power, as an automobile.
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • phantasmagoric — having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination.
  • pharmacologist — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • pharmacopolist — a person who sells pharmaceutical products
  • phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
  • phosphate rock — phosphorite.
  • photocatalysis — the acceleration or retardation of the reaction rate in chemical reactions by light.
  • photorealistic — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
  • phraseological — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
  • phyllosilicate — any silicate mineral having the tetrahedral silicate groups linked in sheets, each group containing four oxygen atoms, three of which are shared with other groups so that the ratio of silicon atoms to oxygen atoms is two to five.
  • physical layer — (networking)   Layer one, the lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The physical layer encompasses details such as electrical and mechanical connections to the network, transmission of binary data as changing voltage levels on wires or similar concepts on other connectors, and data rates. The physical layer is used by the data link layer. Example physical layer protocols are CSMA/CD, token ring and bus.
  • pitch invasion — If there is a pitch invasion during or after a football, rugby, or cricket match, fans run on to the pitch.
  • pitch-and-toss — a game in which players toss coins at a mark, the person whose coin hits closest to the mark tossing all the coins in the air and winning all those that come down heads up.
  • platycephalous — flat-headed
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • polysaccharide — a carbohydrate, as starch, inulin, or cellulose, containing more than three monosaccharide units per molecule, the units being attached to each other in the manner of acetals, and therefore capable of hydrolysis by acids or enzymes to monosaccharides.
  • prairie school — a group of early 20th-century architects of the Chicago area who designed houses and other buildings with emphasized horizontal lines responding to the flatness of the Midwestern prairie; the best-known member was Frank Lloyd Wright.
  • prawn-sandwich — characterizing or belonging to the type of spectator at a football match who is motivated to attend more by the corporate hospitality available than a true devotion to a particular club
  • pre-bachelor's — an unmarried man.
  • preanaesthetic — a drug administered prior to an anaesthetic
  • primary school — a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
  • private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
  • prosencephalon — the forebrain.
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