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

  • polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
  • posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
  • postsynchronize — to add sound, such as dubbing, to a film or video after shooting is completed
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
  • psychochemistry — the treatment of mental illnesses by drugs
  • psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
  • psychosynthesis — a theoretical effort to reconcile components of the unconscious, including dreams, with the rest of the personality.
  • psychotherapist — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
  • psychotomimetic — (of a substance or drug) tending to produce symptoms like those of a psychosis; hallucinatory.
  • puerto ayacucho — a city in S Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • 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.
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • 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.
  • st. christopher — Saint, died a.d. c250, Christian martyr.
  • stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
  • sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • 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 phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
  • the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
  • the proterozoic — the Proterozoic Eon or its rocks
  • the riot police — the section of the police force that is trained to deal with people who cause trouble in public places
  • theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
  • thought process — thinking, train of thought
  • threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
  • to fly the coop — If you say that someone has flown the coop, you mean that they have left a place or situation that limits their freedom.
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
  • white corpuscle — white blood cell.
  • with respect to — as regards
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