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15-letter words containing p, e, t, s, h

  • sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
  • spotted sunfish — a sunfish, Lepomis punctatus, inhabiting streams from South Carolina to Florida, having the body marked with longitudinal rows of spots.
  • spread the word — make others aware
  • st. christopher — Saint, died a.d. c250, Christian martyr.
  • step on the gas — accelerate, drive faster
  • stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
  • stirrup leather — the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • stretcher party — a group of stretcher bearers and the stretchers they are carrying
  • studhorse poker — stud poker.
  • substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
  • superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
  • swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
  • sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
  • sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
  • symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
  • teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
  • thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
  • thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
  • the jos plateau — a plateau in Nigeria with an average altitude of 1280 metres
  • the last supper — the supper of Jesus and His disciples on the eve of His Crucifixion. Compare Lord's Supper (def 1).
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • the peach state — a nickname for Georgia, a state in southeastern United States
  • the peloponnese — the S peninsula of Greece, joined to central Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth: chief cities in ancient times were Sparta and Corinth, now Patras. Pop: 503 300 (2001). Area: 21 439 sq km (8361 sq miles)
  • the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
  • the present day — The present day is the period of history that we are in now.
  • the proprieties — the standards of behaviour considered correct by polite society
  • the upper ranks — the higher divisions of the armed forces
  • theory of types — a theory advanced by Bertrand Russell to avoid the liar paradox, Russell's paradox, etc, in which a class of expressions or of the entities they represent can all enter into the same syntactic relations
  • theriomorphosis — transformation into an animal form, often associated with mythological characters
  • thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
  • thickness piece — a narrow flat or board used in scenic construction to give the illusion of depth or solidity to a door, wall, window, or the like.
  • thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
  • thought process — thinking, train of thought
  • threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • trainspotterish — obsessed with trivial details, esp of a subject generally considered uninteresting
  • trans-euphrates — a river in SW Asia, flowing from E Turkey through Syria and Iraq, joining the Tigris to form the Shatt-al-Arab near the Persian Gulf. 1700 miles (2735 km) long.
  • unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
  • vegetable sheep — any of various species of the genus Raoulia, esp R. mammillaris or R. eximia, of New Zealand rocky mountains: a small low bush having white flowers and hairy leaves which, from a distance, make it look like a sheep
  • west hartlepool — a former borough, now part of Hartlepool, in Cleveland County, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tees.
  • west palm beach — a city in SE Florida: winter resort.
  • westphalian ham — a hard German ham with a distinctive flavor derived from being smoked over beechwood and juniper.
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