15-letter words containing g, o, p, h, e
- organophosphate — Biochemistry. any of a variety of organic compounds that contain phosphorus and often have intense neurotoxic activity: originally developed as nerve gases, now widely used as insecticides and fire retardants.
- overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
- package holiday — a holiday arranged by a travel company in which your travel and accommodation are booked for you
- paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
- palaeogeography — the study of geographical features of the geological past
- palaeontography — the branch of palaeontology concerned with the description of fossils
- palaeopathology — the study of diseases of ancient man and fossil animals
- palaeophytology — the study of ancient botany
- paleogeophysics — (used with a plural verb) inferred geophysical conditions or processes of designated periods of the geologic past.
- paphian goddess — Aphrodite, worshiped in Cyprus as the goddess of sexual love.
- paroemiographer — a person who writes or collects proverbs
- parthenogenesis — development of an egg without fertilization.
- parthenogenetic — development of an egg without fertilization.
- passenger coach — a carriage in which passengers sit
- patagonian hare — a burrowing, gray, long-eared and long-legged cavy of the genus Dolichotis, native to South America.
- peachblow glass — an American art glass made in various pale colors and sometimes having an underlayer of milk glass.
- pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
- personal growth — development as an individual
- phenomenologies — the study of phenomena.
- phenomenologist — the study of phenomena.
- phenylene group — any of three bivalent, isomeric groups having the formula –C 6 H 4 –, derived from benzene by the removal of two hydrogen atoms.
- philip the good — 1396–1467, duke of Burgundy 1419–67.
- phosphate group — the group or radical obtained by removal of one or more hydrogen atoms from phosphoric acid.
- photodegradable — (of a substance) capable of being broken down by light.
- photoheliograph — an instrument for photographing the sun, consisting of a camera and a specially adapted telescope.
- phototelegraphy — facsimile (def 2a).
- phrasemongering — the act of coining memorable phrases
- phrenologically — in a manner relating to phrenology
- phytoflagellate — any microscopic flagellate that is photosynthetic.
- phytopathogenic — of, possessing the properties of, or relating to a phytopathogen
- pigeon shooting — the act of hunting and shooting live pigeons
- 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.
- plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
- posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
- posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
- process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
- progress chaser — a person employed to make sure at each stage, esp of a manufacturing process, that a piece of work is on schedule and is delivered to the customer on time
- property rights — a legal right to or in a particular property.
- pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
- pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- roentgenography — roentgenogram.
- rollmop herring — a herring fillet rolled, usually around onion slices, and pickled in spiced vinegar
- 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.
- semipornography — partial pornography; material that is almost pornographic
- shipping losses — the total loss of a navy's ships in wartime, esp with reference to those sunk during the Second World War
- shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof