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16-letter words containing h, e, t, r, o, s

  • over the transom — by unsolicited submission, as to a publisher
  • over-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • overenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
  • palmerston north — a city in New Zealand, in the S North Island on the Manawatu River. Pop: 78 100 (2004 est)
  • parrot's-feather — a South American water milfoil, Myriophyllum aquaticum, having hairlike pinnate leaves, widely cultivated as an aquarium plant.
  • pascal's theorem — the theorem that the lines joining adjacent vertices of a hexagon intersect the same straight line if alternate vertices lie on two intersecting straight lines.
  • people's charter — the principles or movement of a party of political reformers, chiefly workingmen, in England from 1838 to 1848: so called from the document (People's Charter or National Charter) that contained a statement of their principles and demands.
  • pharmacogenetics — the branch of pharmacology that examines the relation of genetic factors to variations in response to drugs.
  • pharmacokinetics — the branch of pharmacology that studies the fate of pharmacological substances in the body, as their absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination.
  • phlebothrombosis — the presence of a thrombus in a vein.
  • phosphor fatigue — screen saver
  • photorespiration — the oxidation of carbohydrates in many higher plants in which they get oxygen from light and then release carbon dioxide, somewhat different from photosynthesis.
  • poitou-charentes — a region of W central France, on the Bay of Biscay: mainly low-lying
  • poor white trash — white trash.
  • port authorities — the body with overall responsibility for a port
  • process theology — a form of theology that emphasizes the close relation of human beings, nature, and God.
  • prometheus bound — a tragedy (c457 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • prospect heights — a town in N Illinois.
  • prosthetic group — the nonprotein acid constituent of a conjugate protein, as the heme group of hemoglobin.
  • protestant ethic — work ethic.
  • pseudohistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • psychogeriatrics — the psychology of old age.
  • put to the sword — to kill with a sword or swords
  • recursion theory — (theory)   The study of problems that, in principle, cannot be solved by either computers or humans.
  • refreshment room — a room in a railway station where food and drink was served
  • residential home — a home with social-work supervision for people who need more than just housing accommodation, such as esp the elderly, and also children in care or mentally handicapped adults
  • richmond heights — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
  • saint-john perse — (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
  • schlieren method — a method for detecting regions of differing densities in a clear fluid by photographing a beam of light passed obliquely through it.
  • schneider trophy — a trophy for air racing between seaplanes of any nation, first presented by Jacques Schneider (1879–1928) in 1913; won outright by Britain in 1931
  • school inspector — an official whose job is to inspect schools and to report on their quality and conditions
  • schoolteacherish — showing characteristics thought to be typical of a schoolteacher, as strictness and primness.
  • sclerenchymatous — supporting or protective tissue composed of thickened, dry, and hardened cells.
  • scottish borders — a council area in SE Scotland, on the English border: created in 1996, it has the same boundaries as the former Borders Region: it is mainly hilly, with agriculture (esp sheep farming) the chief economic activity. Administrative centre: Newtown St Boswells. Pop: 108 280 (2003 est). Area: 4734 sq km (1827 sq miles)
  • scottish terrier — one of a Scottish breed of small terriers having short legs and a wiry, steel-gray, brindled, black, sandy, or wheaten coat.
  • scratch together — to assemble with difficulty
  • secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
  • self-nourishment — something that nourishes; food, nutriment, or sustenance.
  • semi-hibernation — Zoology. to spend the winter in close quarters in a dormant condition, as bears and certain other animals. Compare estivate.
  • shaft horsepower — the horsepower delivered to the driving shaft of an engine, as measured by a torsion meter. Abbreviation: shp, SHP.
  • sheffer's stroke — a function of two sentences, equivalent to the negation of their conjunction, and written p|q (p and q are both not true) where p,q, are the arguments: p|q is false only when p,q are both true. It is possible to construct all truth functions out of this one alone
  • shoestring catch — a catch of a ball on the fly, made close to the ground while running.
  • shoot the breeze — a wind or current of air, especially a light or moderate one.
  • shooting gallery — a place equipped with targets and used for practice in shooting.
  • shopping trolley — A shopping trolley is a large metal basket on wheels which is provided by shops such as supermarkets for customers to use while they are in the shop.
  • short ski method — a way of learning to ski, using short skis
  • short sweetening — sugar.
  • shorthand writer — a person trained to write in shorthand
  • shortsightedness — unable to see far; nearsighted; myopic.
  • shot in the dark — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
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