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15-letter words containing c, h, e, p

  • pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
  • quasi-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • raster graphics — (graphics)   Computer graphics in which an image is composed of an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Opposite: vector graphics.
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • reaping machine — any of various machines for reaping grain, often fitted with a device for automatically throwing out bundles of the cut grain.
  • reported speech — indirect quotation
  • 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.
  • rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • scaphocephalous — of or relating to scaphocephalus
  • schlieffen plan — a plan intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries, devised by Alfred, Count von Schlieffen (1833–1913) in 1905
  • schopenhauerian — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
  • 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.
  • self-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
  • 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
  • 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
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • shopping center — a group of stores within a single architectural plan, supplying most of the basic shopping needs, especially in suburban areas.
  • shopping centre — A shopping centre is a specially built area containing a lot of different shops.
  • 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.
  • space character — a keyed space in text or data
  • spanish america — the Spanish-speaking countries south of the U.S.: Mexico, Central America (with the exception of Belize), South America (with the exceptions of Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname), and most of the West Indies.
  • specific charge — the ratio of the charge on a particle to the mass of the particle.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • speech disorder — an inability to produce normal speech
  • speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
  • spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
  • splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • 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.
  • st. christopher — Saint, died a.d. c250, Christian martyr.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • 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 handicapped — those who are physically disabled or mentally retarded
  • the other place — (at Oxford University) Cambridge University
  • the paleolithic — the Paleolithic period, subdivided into the Lower (to c. 150,000 b.c.), Middle (to c. 38,000 b.c.), and Upper stages; Old Stone Age
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • the peach state — a nickname for Georgia, a state in southeastern United States
  • the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
  • the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
  • the precambrian — the Precambrian era
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