15-letter words containing h, e, r, l, s
- natal horoscope — the horoscope based on an individual's birth.
- natural english — Programming in normal, spoken English. [Sammet 1969, p.768].
- nearly-new shop — a shop that sells secondhand clothes and other objects
- neighbourliness — Standard spelling of neighborliness.
- neo-lutheranism — a movement begun in the 19th century in Germany and Scandinavia to revive the orthodox principles, beliefs, and practices of the Lutheran Church.
- nephrolithiasis — (pathology) presence of calculi in kidneys.
- nephrosclerosis — (pathology) arteriosclerosis of the renal arteries.
- neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
- neuropsychology — The study of the relationship between behavior, emotion, and cognition on the one hand, and brain function on the other.
- new york school — a loosely associated group of American and European artists and sculptors, especially abstract expressionist painters, active in and near New York City chiefly in the 1940s and 1950s.
- nicholas ridley — Nicholas, c1500–55, English bishop, reformer, and martyr.
- no holds barred — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- non-shareholder — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
- north las vegas — a city in S Nevada.
- northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
- northern lights — aurora borealis.
- northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
- nuclear physics — the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, structure, and component parts of atomic nuclei.
- oligosaccharide — any carbohydrate yielding few monosaccharides on hydrolysis, as two, three, or four.
- one's last hour — the time of one's death
- orchestrational — Of or pertaining to orchestration.
- organochlorines — Plural form of organochlorine.
- overthrust belt — an elongate area in which thick rock layers have been pushed over one another by compressional forces within the earth's crust.
- pass-the-parcel — a children's game in which a parcel with lots of wrappings is passed round while music plays; each time the music stops the person holding the parcel takes a layer of wrapping off
- passport holder — a person who has a passport
- penshurst place — a 14th-century mansion near Tunbridge Wells in Kent: birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney; gardens laid out from 1560
- peroxysulphuric — as in peroxysulphuric acid
- personal growth — development as an individual
- phlebosclerosis — sclerosis, or hardening, of the walls of veins.
- phloem necrosis — a disease of the American elm caused by a mycoplasmalike organism, characterized by yellowing and necrosis of the foliage and yellowish-brown discoloration of the phloem.
- phosphorylative — of or relating to phosphorylation
- physical memory — (memory management) The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
- pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
- pixels per inch — (unit, graphics) (ppi) The unit used to measure resolution of a bitmap display or video input device.
- planter's punch — a punch made with rum, lime juice, sugar, and water or soda.
- plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
- poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
- posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
- potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
- pre-established — to establish beforehand.
- press the flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
- psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
- purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
- quasi-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- raise the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
- relative to sth — Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it.
- release therapy — psychotherapy in which the patient finds emotional release in the expression of hostilities and emotional conflicts.