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16-letter words containing p, e, t, h, i

  • speech synthesis — computer-generated audio output that imitates human speech
  • speech therapist — sb who treats speaking disorders
  • spin the platter — a game in which one member of a group spins a platter on its edge and a designated member must catch it before it falls or pay a forfeit.
  • spiritual healer — a faith healer
  • spreader-ditcher — a machine for shaping and cleaning roadbeds and ditches and for freeing tracks of ice and snow by plowing and digging.
  • stannic sulphide — an insoluble solid compound of tin usually existing as golden crystals or as a yellowish-brown powder: used as a pigment. Formula: SnS2
  • stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
  • stephen f austin — Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
  • sulphur trioxide — a white corrosive substance existing in three crystalline forms of which the stable (alpha-) form is usually obtained as silky needles. It is produced by the oxidation of sulphur dioxide, and is used in the sulphonation of organic compounds. Formula: SO3
  • superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
  • sweeten the pill — If someone does something to sweeten the pill or sugar the pill, they do it to make some unpleasant news or an unpleasant measure more acceptable.
  • synthetic speech — computer-generated audio output that resembles human speech, produced by an electronic synthesizer operated by means of a keyboard.
  • system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
  • telescopic sight — a telescope mounted on a rifle, etc, used for sighting
  • the body politic — the people of a nation or the nation itself considered as a political entity; the state
  • the devil to pay — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • the dispossessed — people who have had property or possessions taken away
  • the first couple — the US president and their spouse
  • the herring-pond — the Atlantic Ocean
  • the mendip hills — a range of limestone hills in SW England, in N Somerset: includes the Cheddar Gorge and numerous caves. Highest point: 325 m (1068 ft)
  • the moving party — a person who applies to a court or judge with the aim of obtaining a ruling in their favour
  • the opposite sex — women in relation to men or men in relation to women
  • the preconscious — preconscious mental activity
  • the public purse — money from or controlled by the government
  • the time is ripe — If you say the time is ripe, you mean that a suitable time has arrived for something to be done.
  • thermoacidophile — any organism, especially a type of archaebacterium, that thrives in strongly acidic environments at high temperatures.
  • thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
  • thinking pattern — manner of thinking
  • three-piece suit — men's formal outfit
  • three-point line — Basketball. a field goal worth three points, made from behind a specified line (three-point line)
  • three-point play — a play in which a player sinks the free throw that was awarded when the player was fouled while scoring a basket.
  • three-point turn — When the driver of a vehicle does a three-point turn, he or she turns the vehicle by driving forwards in a curve, then backwards in a curve, and then forwards in a curve.
  • thrombocytopenia — an abnormal decrease in the number of blood platelets.
  • thrombophlebitis — the presence of a thrombus in a vein accompanied by inflammation of the vessel wall.
  • tightrope walker — performer who walks on high wire
  • to coin a phrase — You say 'to coin a phrase' to show that you realize you are making a pun or using a cliché.
  • to pass the time — If you do something to pass the time you do it because you have some time available and not because you really want to do it.
  • topsail schooner — a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.
  • triphenylmethane — a colorless, crystalline, solid compound containing three benzene rings, C 19 H 16 , from which many dyes are derived.
  • two-tailed pasha — a distinctive vanessid butterfly of S Europe, Charaxes jasius, having mottled brown wings with a yellow-orange margin and frilled hind edges
  • underpitch vault — a construction having a central vault intersected by vaults of lower pitch.
  • up with the lark — up early in the morning
  • up-to-the-minute — extending to the present moment, as information, facts, or style: an up-to-the-minute news report.
  • ventriculography — radiography of the ventricles of the heart after injection of a contrast medium
  • walk a tightrope — be in a precarious position
  • washing-up water — water used for washing dishes
  • watch this space — Journalists write 'Watch this space' in order to indicate in an informal way that they will be giving more information about something in the future.
  • water chinquapin — an American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, having pale-yellow flowers and an edible seed.
  • weatherstripping — A piece of weatherstrip material.
  • white propaganda — propaganda that comes from the source it claims to come from
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