14-letter words containing h, i, t, p
- streptothricin — an antibacterial substance produced by a soil fungus, Actinomyces lavendulae.
- strip lighting — Strip lighting is a method of lighting which uses long tubes rather than light bulbs.
- striped gopher — a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.
- subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
- subtherapeutic — indicating a dosage, as of a drug or vitamin, less than the amount required for a therapeutic effect.
- sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
- sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
- swedish turnip — rutabaga.
- sycophantishly — in a sycophantish manner
- symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
- synoptic chart — a chart showing the distribution of meteorological conditions over a wide region at a given moment.
- tachygraphical — characteristic of tachygraphy
- tachyphylactic — Medicine/Medical. immediate, temporary immunization against the effects of injection of a toxic extract owing to previous small injections of the same extract.
- telegraph wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
- telepathically — communication between minds by some means other than sensory perception.
- telephone line — phone connection
- telephone wire — a wire that transmits telegraph and telephone signals
- telephonically — of, relating to, or happening by means of a telephone system.
- terpin hydrate — a white, crystalline powder, C 10 H 20 O 2 ⋅H 2 O, usually used in combination with codeine, as an expectorant.
- the apple isle — Tasmania
- the capitoline — the most important of the Seven Hills of Rome. The temple of Jupiter was on the southern summit and the ancient citadel on the northern summit
- the cryptozoic — the Cryptozoic era
- the depression — the worldwide economic depression of the early 1930s, when there was mass unemployment
- the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
- the hispanidad — the common values and cultural attitudes shared between and linking Spain and the other Spanish-speaking countries of the world
- the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
- the omnipotent — an epithet for God
- the opposition — a political party or group opposed to the ruling party or government
- the palaeozoic — the Palaeozoic era
- the palatinate — either of two territories in SW Germany, once ruled by the counts palatine. Upper Palatinate is now in Bavaria; Lower or Rhine Palatinate is now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, and Hesse
- the prize ring — the sport of prizefighting
- the public eye — If someone is in the public eye, many people know who they are, because they are famous or because they are often mentioned on television or in the newspapers.
- the slush pile — the unsolicited manuscripts sent by hopeful authors to a publisher, considered as a whole
- the top thirty — the thirty best-selling pop music recordings at any particular time
- the-pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- the-suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- therianthropic — being partly bestial and partly human in form.
- theriomorphism — the identification of animal characteristics with a supernatural being
- thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
- thermoperiodic — responding to or affected by periodic differences in temperatures.
- think positive — be optimistic
- third position — a position in which the feet overlap at the heels with the toes pointing out in opposite directions to the left and right.
- third republic — the republic established in France in 1870 and terminating with the Nazi occupation in 1940.
- thought police — a group of people with totalitarian views on a given subject, who constantly monitor others for any deviation from prescribed thinking
- three-pin plug — an electrical plug with three pins or metal projections to fit into a socket
- threepenny bit — a twelve-sided British coin of nickel-brass, valued at three old pence, obsolete since 1971
- thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
- thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- thrombopoietin — a hormone that induces bone marrow cells to form blood platelets.
- tip one's hand — the act of tipping.