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15-letter words containing e, p, i, h, r

  • physiotherapist — physical therapy.
  • pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
  • pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
  • pinochet ugarte — Augusto [ou-goos-taw] /aʊˈgus tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1915–2006, Chilean army general and political leader: president 1973–90.
  • pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
  • pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
  • pixels per inch — (unit, graphics)   (ppi) The unit used to measure resolution of a bitmap display or video input device.
  • plant-hire firm — a company that hires out mobile mechanical equipment for construction, road-making, etc
  • pleochroic halo — a dark-colored, microscopic ring around a minute radioactive particle in certain mineral crystals, used in estimating the age of the rocks containing these crystals
  • poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
  • polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
  • pontine marshes — an area of W Italy, southeast of Rome: formerly malarial swamps, drained in 1932–34 after numerous attempts since 160 bc had failed
  • posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
  • posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
  • postsynchronize — to add sound, such as dubbing, to a film or video after shooting is completed
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • prairie chicken — either of two North American gallinaceous birds of western prairies, Tympanuchus cupido (greater prairie chicken) or T. pallidicinctus (lesser prairie chicken) having rufous, brown, black, and white plumage.
  • pre-elizabethan — (of English culture, history, traditions, etc.) before the reign of Queen Elizabeth I; before the second half of the 16th century.
  • pre-established — to establish beforehand.
  • primary feather — any of the flight feathers growing from the manus of a bird's wing
  • primary teacher — a teacher in a primary school
  • prince charming — (sometimes lowercase) a man who embodies a woman's romantic ideal.
  • private hearing — a formal or official trial that is not open to the public
  • probationership — the position of a probationer
  • process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
  • property rights — a legal right to or in a particular property.
  • propionaldehyde — a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 6 O, having a pungent odor: used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics.
  • propylhexedrine — a colorless, adrenergic, water-soluble liquid, C 1 0 H 2 N, used by inhalation as a nasal decongestant.
  • proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
  • protonephridium — a tubular, excretory structure in certain invertebrates, as flatworms, rotifers, and some larvae, usually ending internally in flame cells and having an external pore
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • pseudoarthrosis — a joint formed by fibrous tissue bridging the gap between the two fragments of bone of an old fracture that have not united
  • pseudoephedrine — a dextrorotatory, isomeric compound, C 1 0 H 1 5 NO, used as a nasal decongestant.
  • pseudonephritis — a condition, thought to be benign, in which microscopic amounts of blood and protein are present in the urine, occurring commonly among athletes after strenuous exercise.
  • psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
  • psychochemistry — the treatment of mental illnesses by drugs
  • psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
  • psychotherapist — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • put on the ritz — ostentatious or pretentious display.
  • pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
  • quasi-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
  • radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
  • radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
  • raster graphics — (graphics)   Computer graphics in which an image is composed of an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Opposite: vector graphics.
  • reaping machine — any of various machines for reaping grain, often fitted with a device for automatically throwing out bundles of the cut grain.
  • 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.
  • rheinland-pfalz — German name of Rhineland-Palatinate.
  • rhesus positive — relating to blood containing Rhesus antigen D
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