15-letter words containing p, a, l, s, t, h
- hospitalization — the act, process, or state of being hospitalized.
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- hypnotisability — Alternative spelling of hypnotizability.
- hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
- imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
- infeasible path — dead code
- landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
- latter prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible, comprising those books which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets and which are divided into Major Prophets and Minor Prophets
- learn the ropes — become familiar with sth
- lick into shape — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
- mental hospital — psychiatric institution
- mephistophelean — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- mephistophelian — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
- metaphase plate — a plane in the equatorial region of the spindle in dividing cells, along which the chromosomes become arranged during the metaphase.
- multiphase flow — Multiphase flow is a type of flow that involves more than one fluid, for example a liquid and a gas, or two liquids that do not mix.
- natal horoscope — the horoscope based on an individual's birth.
- nephrolithiasis — (pathology) presence of calculi in kidneys.
- nonhospitalized — not hospitalized
- ophthalmologist — a doctor of medicine specializing in ophthalmology.
- ophthalmoscopes — Plural form of ophthalmoscope.
- ophthalmoscopic — Of, pertaining to or using an ophthalmoscope.
- panhandle state — West Virginia (used as a nickname).
- panophthalmitis — the inflammation of all eye tissue
- pass-the-parcel — a children's game in which a parcel with lots of wrappings is passed round while music plays; each time the music stops the person holding the parcel takes a layer of wrapping off
- passport holder — a person who has a passport
- pathophysiology — the physiology of abnormal or diseased organisms or their parts; the functional changes associated with a disease or syndrome.
- penshurst place — a 14th-century mansion near Tunbridge Wells in Kent: birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney; gardens laid out from 1560
- personal growth — development as an individual
- pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
- phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
- phosphorylation — to introduce the phosphoryl group into (an organic compound).
- phosphorylative — of or relating to phosphorylation
- photoelasticity — the phenomenon of double refraction of polarized light by a transparent substance under elastic stress, used to measure strain in elastic, transparent materials.
- photojournalism — journalism in which photography dominates written copy, as in certain magazines.
- physical optics — the branch of optics concerned with the wave properties of light, the superposition of waves, the deviation of light from its rectilinear propagation in a manner other than that considered by geometrical optics, the interaction of light with matter, and the quantum, corpuscular aspects of light.
- physicalization — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- physiopathology — pathophysiology.
- pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
- planter's punch — a punch made with rum, lime juice, sugar, and water or soda.
- platyhelminthes — a phylum of worms having bilateral symmetry and a soft, usually flattened body, comprising the flatworms.
- plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
- polish notation — a logical notation that dispenses with the need for brackets by writing the logical constants as operators preceding their arguments
- potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
- pre-established — to establish beforehand.
- propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.