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15-letter words containing h, i, p, o, t

  • st. christopherSaint, died a.d. c250, Christian martyr.
  • stigmatophilist — a person who has stigmatophilia
  • stop at nothing — to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
  • sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
  • teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
  • thalassographic — relating to thalassography
  • the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • the paleolithic — the Paleolithic period, subdivided into the Lower (to c. 150,000 b.c.), Middle (to c. 38,000 b.c.), and Upper stages; Old Stone Age
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
  • the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
  • the prime mover — God, esp when considered as a first cause
  • the proprieties — the standards of behaviour considered correct by polite society
  • the proterozoic — the Proterozoic Eon or its rocks
  • the riot police — the section of the police force that is trained to deal with people who cause trouble in public places
  • theriomorphosis — transformation into an animal form, often associated with mythological characters
  • thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
  • thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
  • thraco-phrygian — a hypothetical branch of Indo-European implying a special genetic affinity between the meagerly attested Thracian and Phrygian languages.
  • threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
  • top-of-the-line — being the best and usually the most expensive of its kind: The company previewed its top-of-the-line carpeting.
  • topographic map — a map showing topographic features, usually by means of contour lines.
  • toxic psychosis — a psychosis resulting from the toxic effect of chemicals, drugs, or certain intrinsic metabolic states.
  • trainspotterish — obsessed with trivial details, esp of a subject generally considered uninteresting
  • turkish cypriot — denoting ethnically Turkish inhabitants of Cyprus
  • typographically — of or relating to typography.
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
  • vanishing point — a point of disappearance, cessation, or extinction: His patience had reached the vanishing point.
  • washington palm — a palm tree, Washingtonia filifera, of California and Florida, having large fan-shaped leaves and small black fruits
  • weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
  • whip into shape — to bring by vigorous action into the proper or desired condition
  • white corpuscle — white blood cell.
  • winnie-the-pooh — a collection of children's stories (1926) by A. A. Milne.
  • with respect to — as regards
  • xylotypographic — involving or pertaining to xylotypography
  • zoophysiologist — an expert in zoophysiology
  • zoophytological — of or relating to zoophytology
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