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16-letter words containing h, a, p, t

  • purchasing agent — a person who buys materials, supplies, equipment, etc., for a company.
  • put in mothballs — to postpone work on (a project, activity, etc)
  • put in the shade — to appear better than (another); surpass
  • rape of the lock — a mock-epic poem (1712) by Alexander Pope.
  • re-chromatograph — to separate and analyse (a mixture of liquids or gases) by means of chromatography a second or further time
  • reap the harvest — If you reap the harvest, you benefit or suffer from the results of your past actions or of someone else's past actions.
  • rhine palatinate — See under Palatinate (def 1).
  • rhinopharyngitis — inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose and pharynx.
  • roentgenotherapy — treatment of disease by means of x-rays.
  • run a tight ship — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
  • saint-john perse — (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
  • shaft horsepower — the horsepower delivered to the driving shaft of an engine, as measured by a torsion meter. Abbreviation: shp, SHP.
  • shag pile carpet — a large piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor
  • sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
  • shark repellents — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
  • sheepskin jacket — a short jacket made of the skin of a sheep with the wool still attached to it
  • shifting spanner — an adjustable spanner
  • shorthand typing — shorthand and typing
  • shorthand typist — A shorthand typist is a person who types and writes shorthand, usually in an office.
  • showcase project — a project designed to attract attention and show off the abilities of the people involved in it
  • slap in the face — smack on the cheek
  • slap on the back — to congratulate
  • sleeping draught — any drink containing a drug or agent that induces sleep
  • social pathology — a social factor, as poverty, old age, or crime, that tends to increase social disorganization and inhibit personal adjustment.
  • sodium pentothal — the sodium salt of thiopental sodium.
  • sodium phosphate — Also called monobasic sodium phosphate. a white, crystalline, slightly hygroscopic, water-soluble powder, NaH 2 PO 4 , used chiefly in dyeing and in electroplating.
  • soft pornography — soft-core pornography.
  • south plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
  • southern baptist — a member of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in Augusta, Georgia, in 1845, that is strictly Calvinistic and active in religious publishing and education.
  • southern uplands — a hilly region extending across S Scotland: includes the Lowther, Moorfoot, and Lammermuir hills
  • spaghetti squash — a variety of a widely cultivated squash, Cucurbita pepo, having edible flesh in the form of spaghettilike strands.
  • spanish chestnut — Castanea sativa
  • spanish omelette — an omelette made by adding green peppers, onions, tomato, etc, to the eggs
  • spectroheliogram — a photograph of the sun made with a spectroheliograph.
  • speech pathology — the scientific study and treatment of defects, disorders, and malfunctions of speech and voice, as stuttering, lisping, or lalling, and of language disturbances, as aphasia or delayed language acquisition.
  • speech therapist — sb who treats speaking disorders
  • sphygmomanometer — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • sphygmomanometry — an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery.
  • spin the platter — a game in which one member of a group spins a platter on its edge and a designated member must catch it before it falls or pay a forfeit.
  • spiritual healer — a faith healer
  • spotted redshank — a sandpiper, Tringa erythropus, which is a large wader with red legs
  • spreader-ditcher — a machine for shaping and cleaning roadbeds and ditches and for freeing tracks of ice and snow by plowing and digging.
  • stannic sulphide — an insoluble solid compound of tin usually existing as golden crystals or as a yellowish-brown powder: used as a pigment. Formula: SnS2
  • stephen f austin — Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
  • still photograph — a photograph taken from a cinema film which is used for publicity purposes
  • stomach stapling — Stomach stapling is an operation in which part of the stomach is removed in order to help a person to eat less and lose weight.
  • stroboradiograph — a stroboscopic radiograph.
  • subtropical high — one of several highs, as the Azores and Pacific highs, that prevail over the oceans at latitudes of about 30 degrees N and S. Also called subtropical anticyclone. Compare high (def 37).
  • superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
  • swash plate pump — a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and imparts reciprocating motion to push rods parallel to the shaft axis
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