14-letter words containing l, a, t, h
- photoduplicate — photocopy.
- photographical — of or relating to photography.
- photolytically — in a photolytic manner, by photolytic means
- photorealistic — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
- phototelegraph — of or relating to phototelegraphy
- phthalocyanine — Also called metal-free phthalocyanine. a blue-green pigment, C 3 2 H 1 8 N 8 , derived from phthalic anhydride.
- phyllosilicate — any silicate mineral having the tetrahedral silicate groups linked in sheets, each group containing four oxygen atoms, three of which are shared with other groups so that the ratio of silicon atoms to oxygen atoms is two to five.
- phytopathology — plant pathology.
- pink elephants — a facetious name applied to hallucinations caused by drunkenness
- pitched battle — a battle in which the orderly arrangement of armed forces and the location have been predetermined.
- platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
- platycephalous — flat-headed
- play hell with — to throw into confusion and disorder; disrupt
- play the field — an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
- play with fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
- podophthalmous — relating to a crustacean
- poikilothermal — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
- poikilothermia — Medicine/Medical. the inability to regulate core body temperature (as by sweating to cool off or by putting on clothes to warm up), found especially in some spinal cord injury patients and in patients under general anesthesia.
- polar zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it at one of the poles
- polygraph test — a test carried out using a polygraph, esp used by the police to try to find out whether somebody is telling the truth
- port charlotte — a town in SW Florida.
- port elizabeth — a seaport in the SE Cape of Good Hope province, in the S Republic of South Africa.
- pre-raphaelite — any of a group of English artists (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood) formed in 1848, and including Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who aimed to revive the style and spirit of the Italian artists before the time of Raphael.
- preestablished — to establish beforehand.
- primal therapy — a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to relive traumatic events, often screaming or crying, in order to achieve catharsis and a breakdown of psychological defenses.
- 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.
- prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
- psilanthropism — the doctrine that Jesus Christ was only a human being.
- psilanthropist — a person who believes that Jesus was merely human
- psychoanalytic — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- pterylographic — relating to pterylography
- pyophthalmitis — suppurative inflammation of the eye.
- quarter hollow — a deep cove or cavetto.
- quasi-mythical — pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a myth.
- radiotelegraph — a telegraph in which messages or signals are sent by means of radio waves rather than through wires or cables.
- radiotelephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radiotelephony — the constructing or operating of radiotelephones.
- rattle through — If you rattle through something, you deal with it quickly in order to finish it.
- raunch culture — a culture which promotes overtly sexual representations of women, as through the acceptance of pornography, stripping, nudity in advertising, etc, esp when this is encouraged by women
- reflectography — a non-destructive technique which uses infrared light to see beneath the painted surface in works of art in order to obtain information about those artworks
- rehabilitation — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- rehabilitative — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
- relative pitch — the pitch of a tone as determined by its relationship to other tones in a scale.
- retail theater — A retail theater is a display in a store that is very theatrical, artistic and creative, and deliberately designed to make shopping entertaining.
- retail therapy — Retail therapy is the activity of shopping for clothes and other things in order to make yourself feel happier.
- rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
- ride the rails — Someone who rides the rails travels by train, especially over a long period of time and without buying a ticket.
- right and left — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.