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17-letter words containing h, e, r, p, s, l

  • personality clash — friction between two people who have different personalities or points of view
  • philosopher kings — the Platonic ideal of a ruler, philosophically trained and enlightened.
  • phlebotomus fever — sandfly fever.
  • physical exercise — movements and activities done to keep your body healthy or make it stronger
  • pincushion flower — scabious2 (def 1).
  • plug and feathers — an apparatus for splitting stone, consisting of two tapered bars (feathers) inserted into a hole drilled into the stone, between which a narrow wedge (plug) is hammered to spread them.
  • polystyrene chips — small pieces of polystyrene used for insulating or packing
  • preferential shop — a shop in which union members are preferred, usually by agreement of an employer with a union.
  • pseudepigraphical — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudo-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • purple shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
  • rehospitalization — the act, process, or state of being hospitalized.
  • reza shah pahlavi — Muhammad Riza (or Reza) [ri-zah] /rɪˈzɑ/ (Show IPA), 1919–80, shah of Iran 1941–79; in exile after 1979 (son of Riza Shah Pahlavi).
  • san pedro channel — a strait between the mainland of SW California and Santa Catalina Island. About 20 miles (32 km) wide.
  • schwedler's maple — a variety of the Norway maple, Acer platanoides schwedleri, producing red leaves that subsequently turn green.
  • scrape the barrel — to be forced to use one's last and weakest resource
  • scrophulariaceous — belonging to the Scrophulariaceae, the figwort family of plants.
  • semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • sexual dimorphism — the condition in which the males and females in a species are morphologically different, as with many birds.
  • shepherd's needle — a European umbelliferous plant, Scandix pectenveneris, with long needle-like fruits
  • shetland pullover — a thick woollen sweater made from Shetland wool
  • shipping articles — articles of agreement.
  • slap on the wrist — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • spectroheliograph — an apparatus for making photographs of the sun with a monochromatic light to show the details of the sun's surface and surroundings as they would appear if the sun emitted only that light.
  • spectrohelioscope — a spectroheliograph.
  • spherical polygon — a closed figure formed by arcs of great circles on a spherical surface.
  • spiritual healing — faith healing
  • spore mother cell — a cell from which a spore is produced
  • spruce gall aphid — any of various homopterous insects of the family Adelgidae, as Adelges abietis (spruce gall aphid) and Pineus pinifoliae (pine leaf aphid) that feed and form galls on conifers.
  • stenothermophilic — growing best within a narrow temperature range.
  • stereolithography — a process for creating three-dimensional objects using a computer-controlled laser to build up the required structure, layer by layer, from a liquid photopolymer that solidifies.
  • striped killifish — a killifish, Fundulus majalis, of the Atlantic coast of the U.S., the female of which is marked with black stripes.
  • sulfurated potash — a yellowish-brown mixture consisting mainly of potassium polysulfides and potassium thiosulfate, used in treating mange.
  • sulphur butterfly — sulfur butterfly.
  • swash plate motor — a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and converts reciprocating motion to rotation
  • technical support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
  • teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
  • telephone numbers — extremely large numbers, esp in reference to salaries or prices
  • telephone service — a company or public utility that provides a telephone-operating service
  • tertiary syphilis — the third stage of syphilis, characterized by involvement of the internal organs, especially the brain, spinal cord, heart, and liver.
  • the lord's prayer — the, the prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, and beginning with the words Our Father. Matt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4.
  • the popular press — cheap newspapers with a mass circulation; the tabloid press
  • the rail-splitter — Lincoln2
  • the tabloid press — (considered as a whole) newspapers with pages about 30 cm (12 inches) by 40 cm (16 inches), usually characterized by an emphasis on photographs and a concise and often sensational style
  • thermal expansion — expansion caused by heat
  • tiglath-pileser i — died 1102? b.c, king of Assyria c1115–1102?.
  • transdermal patch — a small piece of material used to mend a tear or break, to cover a hole, or to strengthen a weak place: patches at the elbows of a sports jacket.
  • twelve patriarchs — any of the sons of Jacob ((the twelve patriarchs),) from whom the tribes of Israel were descended.
  • ultrametamorphism — metamorphism during which the temperature of a rock exceeds its melting point.
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