14-letter words containing p, e, s, i, g, h
- pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
- pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
- pseudo-english — of, relating to, or characteristic of England or its inhabitants, institutions, etc.
- psychic energy — according to Freud, the force that lies behind all mental processes, having its basic source as the id.
- psychogenetics — the study of internal or mental states
- pythagoreanism — the doctrines of Pythagoras and his followers, especially the belief that the universe is the manifestation of various combinations of mathematical ratios.
- scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
- sheep-worrying — the act (of a dog, sheepdog, wolf, etc) of chasing a flock of sheep and biting or injuring the sheep
- sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
- shipping agent — a person or company whose business is to prepare shipping documents, arrange shipping space and insurance, and deal with customs requirements
- shipping clerk — a clerk who attends to the packing, unpacking, receiving, sending out, and recording of shipments.
- shipping fever — a respiratory disease of cattle, caused by Pasteurella haemolytica, often spread during the shipment of livestock.
- shoe repairing — the trade of mending shoes
- shooting spree — a series of shootings by a mad person
- shopping spree — frenzied, indulgent buying
- sleeping berth — a bunk for sleeping on on a train or boat
- sleeping chair — a chair of the 17th century, having a high back, usually adjustable, with deep wings of the same height.
- sleeping porch — a porch enclosed with glass or screening or a room with open sides or a row of windows used for sleeping in the open air.
- something's up — something is amiss
- spanish dagger — a stemless or short-trunked plant, Yucca gloriosa, of the agave family, native to the southeastern U.S., having leaves nearly 2½ feet (75 cm) long, with a stiff, sharp point, and greenish-white or reddish flowers nearly 4 inches (10 cm) wide.
- spanish guinea — a republic in W equatorial Africa, comprising the mainland province of Río Muni and the island province of Bioko: formerly a Spanish colony. 10,824 sq. mi. (28,034 sq. km). Capital: Malabo.
- spear-phishing — the practice of sending fraudulent e-mails to extract financial data from computer users for purposes of identity theft, by mimicking a sender that the recipient knows
- speech-reading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
- spine-chilling — very frightening or horrifying.
- spinning wheel — a device formerly used for spinning wool, flax, etc., into yarn or thread, consisting essentially of a single spindle driven by a large wheel operated by hand or foot.
- sporangiophore — a structure bearing sporangia.
- sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
- sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
- spring chicken — a young chicken, especially a broiler or fryer.
- steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
- steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
- stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
- straight poker — one of the original forms of poker in which players are dealt five cards face down, upon which they bet and then have the showdown without drawing any cards.
- striped gopher — a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.
- sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
- supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
- the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
- thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
- twilight sleep — a state of semiconsciousness, usually produced by hypodermic injections of scopolamine and morphine, used chiefly to effect relatively painless childbirth.
- 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.
- 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.