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15-letter words containing h, e, p, a, t, i

  • 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 trefoil — alfalfa.
  • speaking as sth — You can say 'speaking as a parent' or 'speaking as a teacher', for example, to indicate that the opinion you are giving is based on your experience as a parent or as a teacher.
  • 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.
  • speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
  • sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
  • spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
  • spill the beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
  • spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
  • 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.
  • stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
  • stirrup leather — the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.
  • 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.
  • swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
  • telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
  • the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • the disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
  • the grim reaper — death
  • the handicapped — those who are physically disabled or mentally retarded
  • 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 paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
  • the precambrian — the Precambrian era
  • the public weal — the public good; the good of society
  • therapeutically — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • thermal printer — a printer that produces output by selectively heating a heat-sensitive paper (thermal paper) in patterns corresponding to the characters to be produced.
  • thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • trainspotterish — obsessed with trivial details, esp of a subject generally considered uninteresting
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
  • weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
  • westphalian ham — a hard German ham with a distinctive flavor derived from being smoked over beechwood and juniper.
  • whip into shape — to bring by vigorous action into the proper or desired condition
  • whip-tailed ray — a whipray.
  • white supremacy — the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial groups, especially black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society.
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