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14-letter words containing h, e, r, p, t

  • piece together — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • piezochemistry — the study of chemical reactions at high pressures
  • pigeon-hearted — timid; meek.
  • pitch cylinder — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • pithecanthrope — (sometimes initial capital letter) a member of the former genus Pithecanthropus.
  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
  • plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
  • pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
  • pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
  • poikilothermal — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
  • poikilothermia — Medicine/Medical. the inability to regulate core body temperature (as by sweating to cool off or by putting on clothes to warm up), found especially in some spinal cord injury patients and in patients under general anesthesia.
  • poikilothermic — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
  • polar zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it at one of the poles
  • polygraph test — a test carried out using a polygraph, esp used by the police to try to find out whether somebody is telling the truth
  • porphyrogenite — a prince born after his father has succeeded to the throne
  • port charlotte — a town in SW Florida.
  • port elizabeth — a seaport in the SE Cape of Good Hope province, in the S Republic of South Africa.
  • postmastership — the office or position of a postmaster
  • potter's wheel — a device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
  • practice-teach — to work as a practice teacher.
  • pre-earthquake — a series of vibrations induced in the earth's crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating.
  • pre-raphaelite — any of a group of English artists (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood) formed in 1848, and including Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who aimed to revive the style and spirit of the Italian artists before the time of Raphael.
  • preanaesthetic — a drug administered prior to an anaesthetic
  • preestablished — to establish beforehand.
  • primal therapy — a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to relive traumatic events, often screaming or crying, in order to achieve catharsis and a breakdown of psychological defenses.
  • prime the pump — an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
  • printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
  • pripet marshes — the largest swamp in Europe, occupying S Belarus and N Ukraine
  • private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
  • pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
  • progenitorship — parenthood; the position of being a progenitor
  • project athena — (project)   A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at MIT. Much of the software developed is now in wider use, especially the X Window System.
  • promethea moth — a silkworm moth, Callosamia promethea, having reddish-brown wings, each with a border of white or yellow, the larvae of which feed on spicebush and other lauraceous plants.
  • prominent moth — any moth of the family Notodontidae characterized by tufts of scales on the back edge of the forewing that stand up prominently at rest and give the group its name. It includes the puss moth and buff-tip as well as those with prominent in the name
  • property right — a legal right to or in a particular property.
  • proprietorship — the owner of a business establishment, a hotel, etc.
  • prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
  • pteridophilist — a person who shows an excessive enthusiam for ferns
  • pterylographic — relating to pterylography
  • punch operator — a person who enters data into cards by means of punching holes
  • purse snatcher — wallet thief
  • put the arm on — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
  • pyelonephritic — of or relating to an inflammation of the pelvis and renal parenchyma
  • pyelonephritis — inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis, caused by a bacterial infection.
  • pyriphlegethon — Phlegethon (def 1).
  • pyrophotometer — a form of pyrometer that measures temperature by optical or photometric means.
  • pyrotechnician — a specialist in the origin of fires, their nature and control, etc.
  • pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
  • radiotelegraph — a telegraph in which messages or signals are sent by means of radio waves rather than through wires or cables.
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