15-letter words containing h, i, p, u, s
- lymphoid tissue — of, relating to, or resembling lymph.
- micropublishing — the publishing of material in microfilm
- montes riphaeus — a mountain range in the third quadrant of the visible face of the moon.
- mother superior — the head of a Christian religious community for women.
- multiphase flow — Multiphase flow is a type of flow that involves more than one fluid, for example a liquid and a gas, or two liquids that do not mix.
- neurohypophysis — See under pituitary gland.
- neurophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with the functions of the nervous system.
- neuroprosthesis — A prosthesis used to improve the function of an impaired nervous system.
- neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.
- nuclear physics — the branch of physics that deals with the behavior, structure, and component parts of atomic nuclei.
- null hypothesis — (in the statistical testing of a hypothesis) the hypothesis to be tested.
- opisthognathous — having receding jaws.
- outdoorsmanship — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
- pedagoguishness — the quality of being pedagoguish
- peroxysulphuric — as in peroxysulphuric acid
- photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
- pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
- proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
- protospatharius — (of the Byzantine empire) a high-ranking official in the imperial guard
- pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
- pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
- pseudo-chemical — of, used in, produced by, or concerned with chemistry or chemicals: a chemical formula; chemical agents.
- pseudoarthrosis — a joint formed by fibrous tissue bridging the gap between the two fragments of bone of an old fracture that have not united
- pseudoephedrine — a dextrorotatory, isomeric compound, C 1 0 H 1 5 NO, used as a nasal decongestant.
- pseudonephritis — a condition, thought to be benign, in which microscopic amounts of blood and protein are present in the urine, occurring commonly among athletes after strenuous exercise.
- psychoacoustics — the study of sound perception.
- pubic symphysis — the fixed joint at the front of the pelvic girdle where the halves of the pubis meet.
- pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
- push up daisies — any of various composite plants the flowers of which have a yellow disk and white rays, as the English daisy and the oxeye daisy.
- put paid to sth — If an unexpected event puts paid to someone's hopes, chances, or plans, it completely ends or destroys them.
- put the nips in — to exert pressure on someone, esp in order to extort money
- quasi-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- radiophosphorus — phosphorus 32.
- rhesus positive — relating to blood containing Rhesus antigen D
- schopenhauerian — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
- schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
- self-punishment — the act of punishing.
- serum hepatitis — hepatitis B.
- snubfin dolphin — Australian dolphin with a small dorsal fin
- sodium sulphate — a solid white substance that occurs naturally as thenardite and is usually used as the white anhydrous compound (salt cake) or the white crystalline decahydrate (Glauber's salt) in making glass, detergents, and pulp. Formula: Na2SO4
- southern paiute — See under Paiute (def 2).
- spanish customs — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
- spinach-rhubarb — an Ethiopian plant, Rumex abyssinicus, of the buckwheat family, having leaves that are sometimes used as spinach and leafstalks sometimes used as rhubarb.
- spotted sunfish — a sunfish, Lepomis punctatus, inhabiting streams from South Carolina to Florida, having the body marked with longitudinal rows of spots.
- stirrup leather — the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.
- sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
- sulphur dioxide — a colourless soluble pungent gas produced by burning sulphur. It is both an oxidizing and a reducing agent and is used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, the preservation of a wide range of foodstuffs (E220), bleaching, and disinfecting. Formula: SO2
- sulphur springs — a town in NE Texas.
- sulphurous acid — an unstable acid produced when sulphur dioxide dissolves in water: used as a preservative for food and a bleaching agent. Formula: H2SO3
- turkish cypriot — denoting ethnically Turkish inhabitants of Cyprus