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15-letter words containing p, h, a, s, e, m

  • landeshauptmann — the head of government in an Austrian state
  • mashed potatoes — potatoes that have been boiled and then crushed into a soft pulpy mass
  • mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
  • membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
  • 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.
  • metamorphosised — Simple past tense and past participle of metamorphosise.
  • metamorphosizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metamorphosize.
  • metaphase plate — a plane in the equatorial region of the spindle in dividing cells, along which the chromosomes become arranged during the metaphase.
  • mexican spanish — Spanish as used in Mexico. Abbreviation: MexSp.
  • microaerophiles — Plural form of microaerophile.
  • misapprehending — Present participle of misapprehend.
  • misapprehension — misunderstanding.
  • montes riphaeus — a mountain range in the third quadrant of the visible face of the moon.
  • 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.
  • neoarsphenamine — a derivative of arsenic formerly used in treating syphilis
  • new hampshirite — of New Hampshire
  • ophthalmoscopes — Plural form of ophthalmoscope.
  • overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
  • pachymeningitis — inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord
  • parasympathetic — pertaining to that part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves and ganglia that arise from the cranial and sacral regions and function in opposition to the sympathetic system, as in inhibiting heartbeat or contracting the pupil of the eye.
  • parish magazine — a magazine containing news and articles of interest to the people of a particular parish church or the local area
  • parmesan cheese — of or from Parma, in northern Italy.
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • phrasemongering — the act of coining memorable phrases
  • physical memory — (memory management)   The memory hardware (normally RAM) installed in a computer. The term is only used in contrast to virtual memory.
  • physicochemical — physical and chemical: the physicochemical properties of an isomer.
  • pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • 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
  • pontine marshes — an area of W Italy, southeast of Rome: formerly malarial swamps, drained in 1932–34 after numerous attempts since 160 bc had failed
  • posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
  • pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
  • pseudo-chemical — of, used in, produced by, or concerned with chemistry or chemicals: a chemical formula; chemical agents.
  • put sb to shame — If someone puts you to shame, they make you feel ashamed because they do something much better than you do.
  • schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
  • semipornography — partial pornography; material that is almost pornographic
  • serum hepatitis — hepatitis B.
  • ship's manifest — a list of the shipments or cargo that a vessel is carrying
  • sodium sulphate — a solid white substance that occurs naturally as thenardite and is usually used as the white anhydrous compound (salt cake) or the white crystalline decahydrate (Glauber's salt) in making glass, detergents, and pulp. Formula: Na2SO4
  • somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
  • spanish america — the Spanish-speaking countries south of the U.S.: Mexico, Central America (with the exception of Belize), South America (with the exceptions of Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname), and most of the West Indies.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
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