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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
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