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15-letter words containing h, a, p, o

  • 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
  • somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
  • 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.
  • southern paiute — See under Paiute (def 2).
  • souvanna phouma — Prince, 1901–84, Laotian statesman: premier 1951–54, 1956–58, 1960, and 1962–75.
  • spanish bayonet — any of certain plants belonging to the genus Yucca, of the agave family, having narrow, spine-tipped leaves and a cluster of white flowers.
  • spanish customs — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
  • spanish morocco — French Maroc. Spanish Marruecos. a kingdom in NW Africa: formed from a sultanate that was divided into two protectorates (French Morocco and Spanish Morocco) and an international zone. 172,104 sq. mi. (445,749 sq. km). Capital: Rabat. Compare Tangier Zone.
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • speaking of sth — You can say speaking of something that has just been mentioned as a way of introducing a new topic which has some connection with that thing.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
  • spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
  • spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
  • 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.
  • sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
  • spread the word — make others aware
  • staphylorrhaphy — repair of a cleft palate by means of staphyloplasty and suturing
  • step on the gas — accelerate, drive faster
  • stigmatophilist — a person who has stigmatophilia
  • stop at nothing — to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
  • 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
  • sumatra camphor — borneol.
  • swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
  • sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
  • sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
  • sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • telephotography — photography of distant objects, using a telephoto lens.
  • teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
  • thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
  • thalassographic — relating to thalassography
  • thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
  • the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • the jos plateau — a plateau in Nigeria with an average altitude of 1280 metres
  • the other place — (at Oxford University) Cambridge University
  • the paleolithic — the Paleolithic period, subdivided into the Lower (to c. 150,000 b.c.), Middle (to c. 38,000 b.c.), and Upper stages; Old Stone Age
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
  • the upper karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
  • thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
  • thermogeography — the study of the geographical variation and distribution of temperature.
  • thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
  • thought pattern — habitual way of thinking
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