14-letter words containing h, p, s
- posthumousness — the fact of being posthumous
- postmastership — the office or position of a postmaster
- potter's wheel — a device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
- pound of flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- prairie school — a group of early 20th-century architects of the Chicago area who designed houses and other buildings with emphasized horizontal lines responding to the flatness of the Midwestern prairie; the best-known member was Frank Lloyd Wright.
- prawn-sandwich — characterizing or belonging to the type of spectator at a football match who is motivated to attend more by the corporate hospitality available than a true devotion to a particular club
- pre-bachelor's — an unmarried man.
- pre-psychology — the science of the mind or of mental states and processes.
- preanaesthetic — a drug administered prior to an anaesthetic
- preestablished — to establish beforehand.
- prepsychedelic — describing the period before the psychedelic era
- primary school — a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
- printing house — a company engaged in the business of producing printed matter
- pripet marshes — the largest swamp in Europe, occupying S Belarus and N Ukraine
- private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
- 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.
- process cheese — a cheese made by heating and blending together several natural cheeses with an emulsifying agent
- profit sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
- profit-sharing — the sharing of profits, as between employer and employee, especially in such a way that the employee receives, in addition to wages, a share in the profits of the business.
- progenitorship — parenthood; the position of being a progenitor
- prohibitionist — a person who favors or advocates prohibition.
- propeller wash — the backwash from a propeller.
- proprietorship — the owner of a business establishment, a hotel, etc.
- prosencephalon — the forebrain.
- prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- prosthodontics — the branch of dentistry that deals with the restoration and maintenance of oral function by the replacement of missing teeth and other oral structures by artificial devices.
- prosthodontist — a specialist in prosthodontics.
- protohistorian — a student of or expert in protohistory
- pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
- psephoanalysis — the statistical and sociological analysis of election trends and results
- pseudaesthesia — imaginary sensation, like that of an amputated limb
- pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
- pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
- pseudo-archaic — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.
- pseudo-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
- pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
- pseudomorphism — an irregular or unclassifiable form.
- psilanthropism — the doctrine that Jesus Christ was only a human being.
- psilanthropist — a person who believes that Jesus was merely human
- 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.
- psycho-history — history or the writing of history employing the techniques of psychoanalysis to explore motivations, explain actions, etc.
- psycho-somatic — of or relating to a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.
- psychoacoustic — relating to psychoacoustics
- psychoanalyses — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- psychoanalysis — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- psychoanalytic — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- psychochemical — pertaining to chemicals or drugs that affect the mind or behavior.
- psychodynamics — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.