14-letter words containing h, i, p, n, e, s
- operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- para-synthesis — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
- paraphernalias — (sometimes used with a singular verb) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia.
- paschen series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
- passenger ship — a ship carrying passengers
- patheticalness — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pension scheme — savings fund for retirement
- personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phase-wrapping — (MIT) wrap around.
- phenolic resin — any of the class of thermosetting resins formed by the condensation of phenol, or of a phenol derivative, with an aldehyde, especially formaldehyde: used chiefly in the manufacture of paints and plastics and as adhesives for sandpaper and plywood.
- phenosafranine — safranine (def 2).
- philippine sea — part of the NW Pacific Ocean, east and north of the Philippines
- phonochemistry — the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of sound and ultrasonic waves
- phosphoprotein — a protein, as casein or ovalbumin, in which one or more hydroxyl groups of serine, threonine, or tyrosine are hydroxylated.
- photoluminesce — to produce photoluminescence
- photosensitive — sensitive to light or similar radiation.
- photosensitize — to make (a material) photosensitive, as by the application of a photosensitive emulsion.
- photosynthesis — the complex process by which carbon dioxide, water, and certain inorganic salts are converted into carbohydrates by green plants, algae, and certain bacteria, using energy from the sun and chlorophyll.
- photosynthetic — the complex process by which carbon dioxide, water, and certain inorganic salts are converted into carbohydrates by green plants, algae, and certain bacteria, using energy from the sun and chlorophyll.
- pidgin english — a pidgin language based on English formerly used in commerce in Chinese ports.
- pie in the sky — pie1 (def 8).
- pigeon-chested — having a narrow chest that sticks out at the front in an unusual way
- pimento cheese — a processed cheese made from Neufchâtel, cream cheese, Cheddar, or other cheese, flavored with chopped pimientos.
- pink elephants — a facetious name applied to hallucinations caused by drunkenness
- pinking shears — shears that have notched blades, for cutting and simultaneously pinking fabric or for finishing garments with a notched, nonfraying edge.
- plesiochronous — (communications) Nearly synchronised, a term describing a communication system where transmitted signals have the same nominal digital rate but are synchronised on different clocks. According to ITU-T standards, corresponding signals are plesiochronous if their significant instants occur at nominally the same rate, with any variation in rate being constrained within specified limits.
- plotting sheet — a blank chart having only a compass rose and latitude lines, longitude lines, or both, marked and annotated, as required, by a navigator.
- poison hemlock — hemlock (defs 1, 3).
- polysynthesism — the synthesis of various elements.
- porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- preanaesthetic — a drug administered prior to an anaesthetic
- printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
- pro-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
- 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
- pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
- psephoanalysis — the statistical and sociological analysis of election trends and results
- pseudo-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
- psychic energy — according to Freud, the force that lies behind all mental processes, having its basic source as the id.
- psychic income — the personal or subjective benefits, rewards, or satisfactions derived from a job or undertaking as separate from its objective or financial ones.
- psychogenetics — the study of internal or mental states
- psychoneurosis — neurosis (def 1).
- psychotechnics — the use of psychological techniques for controlling and modifying human behavior, especially for practical ends.
- pyelonephritis — inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis, caused by a bacterial infection.
- pyelonephrosis — any disease of the kidney and its pelvis.
- pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
- riemann sphere — a sphere used for a stereographic projection.
- sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.