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

  • pygmy hippopotamus — a small hippopotamus, Choeropsis liberiensis, of forests and swamps in western Africa.
  • september holidays — a period of time in September when people do not have to go to school, college or work
  • septic sore throat — an acute, toxic, streptococcus infection of the throat producing fever, tonsillitis, and other serious effects.
  • shape-note singing — a traditional style of a capella singing using shape-note notation.
  • shipping container — a large, strong container, usually of metal, used to store goods in during shipment
  • shipping documents — documents relating to the sending of a shipment of goods, for example containing details of contents, weight, value etc.
  • shoot from the hip — the act of shooting with a bow, firearm, etc.
  • shop till you drop — If you shop till you drop, you do a large amount of shopping.
  • shotgun microphone — a directional microphone with a narrow-angle range of sensitivity.
  • shunting operation — an operation in which rail coaches are manoeuvred
  • sling psychrometer — a psychrometer so designed that the wet-bulb thermometer can be ventilated, to expedite evaporation, by whirling in the air.
  • slip of the tongue — If you describe something you said as a slip of the tongue, you mean that you said it by mistake.
  • sodium hyposulfite — sodium thiosulfate.
  • something to spare — a surplus of something
  • sonic depth finder — a sonar instrument that uses echolocation to measure depths under water.
  • southampton island — an island in N Canada, in the Northwest Territories at the entrance to Hudson Bay. 19,100 sq. mi. (49,470 sq. km).
  • spaghetti junction — an interchange, usually between motorways, in which there are a large number of underpasses and overpasses and intersecting roads used by a large volume of high-speed traffic
  • spectroheliography — the process of obtaining an image of the sun in light of a particular wavelength, such as calcium or hydrogen, showing the distribution of the element over the surface and in the solar atmosphere, using a spectroheliograph
  • speech recognition — Computers. the computerized analysis of spoken words in order to identify the speaker, as in security systems, or to respond to voiced commands: the analysis is performed by finding patterns in the spectrum of the incoming sound and comparing them with stored patterns of elements of sound, as phones, or of complete words.
  • spherical geometry — the branch of geometry that deals with figures on spherical surfaces.
  • spike-tooth harrow — a harrow equipped with straight teeth on horizontal bars, usually employed to smooth and level plowed soil or seedbeds for planting or sowing.
  • superstring theory — any supersymmetric string theory in which each type of elementary particle is treated as a vibration of a single fundamental string (superstring) at a particular frequency.
  • supportive therapy — any treatment, such as the intravenous administration of certain fluids, designed to reinforce or sustain the physiological well-being of a patient
  • systematic phoneme — a phonological unit in generative phonology representing an underlying form that takes into account the relationship between phonological patterns and morphological variation, as the unit underlying the second vowel in both derive and derivative.
  • telephone receiver — a device, as in a telephone, that converts changes in an electric current into sound.
  • telephone sex line — a telephone line operated by a phone-sex worker that offers phone sex to paying customers
  • the bottomless pit — the underworld; hell
  • the encyclopedists — the writers of the French Encyclopedia (1751-72) edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, which contained the advanced ideas of the period
  • the family compact — the ruling oligarchy in Upper Canada in the early 19th century
  • the operative word — If you describe a word as the operative word, you want to draw attention to it because you think it is important or exactly true in a particular situation.
  • the-cocktail-party — a play in verse (1950) by T. S. Eliot.
  • thiosulphuric acid — an unstable acid known only in solutions and in the form of its salts. Formula: H2S2O3
  • thought experiment — Physics. a demonstration or calculation that is based on the postulates of a theory, as relativity, and that demonstrates or clarifies the consequences of the postulates.
  • tip of the iceberg — a large floating mass of ice, detached from a glacier and carried out to sea.
  • to lick into shape — If you lick, knock, or whip someone or something into shape, you use whatever methods are necessary to change or improve them so that they are in the condition that you want them to be in.
  • to pick and choose — If you pick and choose, you carefully choose only things that you really want and reject the others.
  • to spill the beans — If you spill the beans, you tell someone something that people have been trying to keep secret.
  • to stop at nothing — If you say that someone will stop at nothing to get something, you are emphasizing that they are willing to do things that are extreme, wrong, or dangerous in order to get it.
  • triphosphoric acid — the hypothetical acid H 5 P 3 O 10 , known chiefly by its salts.
  • upper palaeolithic — the latest of the three periods of the Palaeolithic, beginning about 40 000 bc and ending, in Europe, about 12 000 bc: characterized by the emergence of modern man, Homo sapiens
  • vectorcardiography — a method of determining the direction and magnitude of the electrical forces of the heart.
  • warehouse capacity — the amount of storage space in a warehouse
  • white iron pyrites — marcasite
  • white-spotted hyla — a type of tree frog (H. leucophyllata) of tropical America
  • wireless telephone — Now Rare. radiotelephony.
  • wireless telephony — Now Rare. radiotelephony.
  • withdrawal symptom — effects of stopping a drug
  • working hypothesis — See under hypothesis (def 1).
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