15-letter words containing h, p, s
- psychodiagnosis — a psychological examination using psychodiagnostic techniques.
- psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
- psychographical — relating to psychographics
- psychohistorian — a person who writes psychohistory
- psychologically — of or relating to psychology.
- psychopathology — the science or study of mental disorders.
- psychophysicist — a person who specializes in psychophysics
- psychosociology — the study of subjects, issues, and problems common to psychology and sociology.
- psychosynthesis — a theoretical effort to reconcile components of the unconscious, including dreams, with the rest of the personality.
- psychotherapist — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- psychotomimetic — (of a substance or drug) tending to produce symptoms like those of a psychosis; hallucinatory.
- pubic symphysis — the fixed joint at the front of the pelvic girdle where the halves of the pubis meet.
- pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
- purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
- push one's luck — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- 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 on the spot — If you put someone on the spot, you cause them to have to answer a difficult question or make a difficult decision.
- put paid to sth — If an unexpected event puts paid to someone's hopes, chances, or plans, it completely ends or destroys them.
- put sb to death — If someone is put to death, they are executed.
- put sb to shame — If someone puts you to shame, they make you feel ashamed because they do something much better than you do.
- put the nips in — to exert pressure on someone, esp in order to extort money
- put to the test — check performance
- quasi-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- radiophosphorus — phosphorus 32.
- raster graphics — (graphics) Computer graphics in which an image is composed of an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Opposite: vector graphics.
- release therapy — psychotherapy in which the patient finds emotional release in the expression of hostilities and emotional conflicts.
- reported speech — indirect quotation
- reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.
- rhesus positive — relating to blood containing Rhesus antigen D
- saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- scaphocephalous — of or relating to scaphocephalus
- schlieffen plan — a plan intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries, devised by Alfred, Count von Schlieffen (1833–1913) in 1905
- 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.
- scrape together — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- scratching post — a block or post of wood, usually covered with carpeting, on which a cat can use its claws.
- self-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
- self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
- self-punishment — the act of punishing.
- semipornography — partial pornography; material that is almost pornographic
- separate school — (in Canada) a school for a large religious minority financed by its rates and administered by its own school board but under the authority of the provincial department of education
- serum hepatitis — hepatitis B.
- share ownership — the owning of shares in a company
- shark repellent — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
- sharp as a tack — intelligent, quick witted
- sheffield plate — sheet copper with a cladding of silver.
- ship's articles — a type of contract by which sailors agree to the conditions, payment, etc, for the ship in which they are going to work
- ship's manifest — a list of the shipments or cargo that a vessel is carrying
- shipping losses — the total loss of a navy's ships in wartime, esp with reference to those sunk during the Second World War
- shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment