14-letter words containing h, p, s
- to sleep rough — When people sleep or live rough, they sleep out of doors, usually because they have no home.
- to the purpose — relevant; pertinent
- top-hat scheme — a pension scheme for the senior executives of an organization
- tortilla chips — snack food: corn crisps
- trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
- trans-physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.
- trichophytosis — a skin infection caused by a trichophyton
- trophoneurosis — a disorder caused by defective functioning of the trophic nerves
- trust hospital — a hospital that is run by an NHS trust which competes with other trusts for government funding
- turkish empire — Ottoman Empire
- turn of phrase — expression, wording
- twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
- un-replenished — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- unaccomplished — not accomplished; incomplete or not carried out: Many tasks remain unaccomplished.
- unapprehensive — slow to understand; not intelligent
- underemphasize — to give less than sufficient emphasis to; minimize.
- unmetaphysical — (of a statement or theory) not metaphysical or abstract
- unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
- unpurchaseable — not able to be bought or purchased
- unsophisticate — not sophisticated
- unsympathizing — not sympathizing; not offering sympathy; unsympathetic
- up to the ears — very deeply
- upwards of sth — A quantity that is upwards of a particular number is more than that number.
- v-shaped curve — a curve on a graph that shows a sharp fall followed by a correspondingly sharp rise
- vishakhapatnam — a seaport in Andhra Pradesh, in E India, on the Bay of Bengal.
- visible speech — the representation in graphic or pictorial form of characteristics of speech, as by means of sound spectrograms.
- walpurgisnacht — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
- wappenschawing — a periodical muster or review of the men under arms in a particular lordship or district
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- washington pie — a Boston cream pie with raspberry jam instead of custard between the layers.
- water sapphire — a transparent variety of cordierite, found in Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and elsewhere, sometimes used as a gem.
- wear the pants — trousers (def 1).
- weatherpersons — Plural form of weatherperson.
- web-publishing — a person or company that uploads, creates, or edits content on Web pages; one who maintains or manages a website.
- webliographies — Plural form of webliography.
- well-published — to issue (printed or otherwise reproduced textual or graphic material, computer software, etc.) for sale or distribution to the public.
- west hempstead — a city on W Long Island, in SE New York.
- whiplash-curve — the lash of a whip.
- whippersnapper — an unimportant but offensively presumptuous person, especially a young one.
- white mariposa — a Mariposa lily, Calochortus venustus, having white or pale lilac flowers.
- white sapphire — a colorless variety of corundum, used as a gemstone.
- whitetip shark — Also called reef whitetip shark. a smooth dogfish, Triaenodon obseus, having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins and occurring inshore among the reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans and the Red Sea.
- window-shopper — to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
- with eyes open — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- with open arms — the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- worshipfulness — The state or condition of being worshipful; reverence.
- xiphihumeralis — a long pectoral muscle found only in felines
- zephyr worsted — lightweight worsted yarn.
- zinc phosphide — a dark-gray, gritty, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, Zn 3 P 2 , used chiefly as a rodenticide.
- zoophytologist — an expert in zoophytology