15-letter words containing h, a, p, l, o
- plain chocolate — dark eating chocolate
- plain of sharon — a plain in W Israel, between the Mediterranean and the hills of Samaria, extending from Haifa to Tel Aviv
- plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
- plant pathology — the branch of botany dealing with diseases of plants.
- play havoc with — bring chaos to
- 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
- plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
- polish notation — a logical notation that dispenses with the need for brackets by writing the logical constants as operators preceding their arguments
- polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
- polymorphically — in a polymorphic manner
- polyphloesboean — noisy
- polysomnography — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
- potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
- propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
- propionaldehyde — a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 6 O, having a pungent odor: used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics.
- propyl aldehyde — a colorless, water-soluble liquid, C 3 H 6 O, having a pungent odor: used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics.
- provost marshal — Army. an officer on the staff of a commander, charged with the maintaining of order and with other police functions within a command.
- pseudo-chemical — of, used in, produced by, or concerned with chemistry or chemicals: a chemical formula; chemical agents.
- pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- psychographical — relating to psychographics
- psychologically — of or relating to psychology.
- psychopathology — the science or study of mental disorders.
- public footpath — a footpath along which the public has right of way
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
- 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.
- rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
- saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- scaphocephalous — of or relating to scaphocephalus
- 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
- shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
- shove-halfpenny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
- sodium sulphate — a solid white substance that occurs naturally as thenardite and is usually used as the white anhydrous compound (salt cake) or the white crystalline decahydrate (Glauber's salt) in making glass, detergents, and pulp. Formula: Na2SO4
- 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.
- spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
- spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
- spit and polish — great care in maintaining smart appearance and crisp efficiency: The commander was concerned more with spit and polish than with the company's morale.
- splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
- staphylorrhaphy — repair of a cleft palate by means of staphyloplasty and suturing
- stigmatophilist — a person who has stigmatophilia
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
- sulphurous acid — an unstable acid produced when sulphur dioxide dissolves in water: used as a preservative for food and a bleaching agent. Formula: H2SO3
- sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- telephotography — photography of distant objects, using a telephoto lens.
- thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
- thalassographic — relating to thalassography