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14-letter words containing e, p, h, l

  • telephone pole — a utility pole for supporting telephone wires.
  • telephone wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
  • telephonically — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
  • telephoto lens — a lens constructed so as to produce a relatively large image with a focal length shorter than that required by an ordinary lens producing an image of the same size: used to photograph small or distant objects.
  • telephotograph — a photograph taken with a telephoto lens.
  • telephotometer — an instrument for measuring the amount of light emanating from a distant object.
  • the apple isle — Tasmania
  • the black caps — the international cricket team of New Zealand
  • the capitoline — the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome. The temple of Jupiter was on the southern summit and the ancient citadel on the northern summit
  • the last trump — the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the maple leaf — the national flag of Canada, consisting of a representation of a maple leaf in red on a white central panel with a vertical red bar on either side
  • the palaeocene — the Palaeocene epoch or rock series
  • the palaeogene — the Palaeogene period or system
  • the palaeozoic — the Palaeozoic era
  • the palatinate — either of two territories in SW Germany, once ruled by the counts palatine. Upper Palatinate is now in Bavaria; Lower or Rhine Palatinate is now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Hesse
  • the paranormal — paranormal happenings generally
  • the platteland — (in South Africa) the country districts or rural areas
  • the pole vault — a field event in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
  • the public eye — If someone is in the public eye, many people know who they are, because they are famous or because they are often mentioned on television or in the newspapers.
  • the slush pile — the unsolicited manuscripts sent by hopeful authors to a publisher, considered as a whole
  • the unemployed — people who are out of work
  • the-suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • theotocopoulos — Domenikos [th aw-men-ee-kaws] /ðɔˈmɛn i kɔs/ (Show IPA), El Greco.
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
  • third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
  • thought police — a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking
  • three-act play — a dramatic production such as play or film which is divided into three acts or sections
  • three-pin plug — an electrical plug with three pins or metal projections to fit into a socket
  • tip the scales — to exercise a decisive influence
  • to sleep rough — When people sleep or live rough, they sleep out of doors, usually because they have no home.
  • triphenylamine — a molecule consisting of a nitrogen atom with three phenyl groups attached to it
  • twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
  • un-replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
  • unapproachable — not capable of being approached; remote; unreachable: an unapproachable spot; an unapproachable person.
  • undecipherable — to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.): to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
  • unemphatically — uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
  • unmetaphorical — not used, viewed, or intended as a metaphor
  • unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
  • unpurchaseable — not able to be bought or purchased
  • variable-pitch — (of a propeller) controllable-pitch.
  • vexillographer — a person who designs or makes flags.
  • visible speech — the representation in graphic or pictorial form of characteristics of speech, as by means of sound spectrograms.
  • walk the plank — a long, flat piece of timber, thicker than a board.
  • web-publishing — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.
  • webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
  • well-published — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
  • wheel clamping — the practice of attaching wheel clamps to vehicles
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