13-letter words containing p, e, h, s
- pyrophosphate — a salt or ester of pyrophosphoric acid.
- pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
- quarter-phase — differing in phase by a quarter of a cycle; two-phase.
- recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
- rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
- reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
- replenishable — able to be replenished
- replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
- reprographics — reprography.
- reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
- research park — an industrial park whose facilities are devoted to research and development.
- reupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- rhaetian alps — a section of the central Alps along E Switzerland's borders with Austria and Italy. Highest peak: Piz Bernina, 4049 m (13 284 ft)
- rheoreceptors — a receptor of fishes and aquatic amphibians stimulated by water currents.
- rosehip syrup — a syrup made from rosehips, used as a cough remedy
- rough passage — a stormy sea journey
- rough sleeper — a homeless person who sleeps rough
- sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
- scallop shell — the shell of a scallop
- scaphocephaly — premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
- schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
- schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
- schizophrenic — Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
- school report — written assessment of school pupil
- sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
- scratch paper — rough paper for notes, etc.
- scrivenership — the position of being a scrivener or scribe; scribing
- secretaryship — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
- selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
- self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
- seneschalship — the office or position of a seneschal
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
- shakespearean — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
- shakespearian — of, relating to, or suggestive of Shakespeare or his works.
- shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
- shaped charge — a warhead having a concave, hollow end and operating on the Munroe effect.
- share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
- share premium — the excess of the amount actually subscribed for an issue of corporate capital over its par value
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- sheep measles — a disease of sheep caused by infestation by the cysticerci of a dog tapeworm (Taenia ovis)
- sheep station — a large sheep farm
- sheepshearing — an act or instance of shearing sheep.
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.