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17-letter words containing p, h, i, l, c, s

  • patriarchal cross — a Latin cross having a shorter crosspiece above the customary one.
  • perpetual spinach — a variety of spinach that keeps producing edible leaves
  • personality clash — friction between two people who have different personalities or points of view
  • phenyl isocyanate — a liquid reagent, C 7 H 5 NO, having an unpleasant, irritating odor: used chiefly for identifying alcohols and amines.
  • photoluminescence — luminescence induced by the absorption of infrared radiation, visible light, or ultraviolet radiation.
  • physical activity — sth involving use of the body
  • physical exercise — movements and activities done to keep your body healthy or make it stronger
  • physical handicap — loss of or failure to develop a specific bodily function or functions, whether of movement, sensation, coordination, or speech, but excluding mental impairments or disabilities
  • physical medicine — the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury by means of physical agents, as manipulation, massage, exercise, heat, or water.
  • physical pendulum — any apparatus consisting of a body of possibly irregular shape allowed to rotate freely about a horizontal axis on which it is pivoted (distinguished from simple pendulum).
  • physical training — fitness coaching
  • pincushion flower — scabious2 (def 1).
  • pocket battleship — a small heavily armed and armored warship serving as a battleship because of limitations imposed by treaty.
  • polioencephalitis — a disease characterized by inflammation of the gray matter of the brain.
  • polystyrene chips — small pieces of polystyrene used for insulating or packing
  • pseudepigraphical — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
  • pseudo-historical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • psychoeducational — designating or of psychological methods, as intelligence tests, used in evaluating learning ability
  • psychographically — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
  • psycholinguistics — the study of the relationship between language and the cognitive or behavioral characteristics of those who use it.
  • psychoprophylaxis — Lamaze method.
  • push-pull circuit — a circuit using two similar electronic devices, such as matched valves, made to operate 180° out of phase with each other
  • schmidt telescope — a wide-angle reflecting telescope used primarily for astronomical photography, in which spherical aberration and coma are reduced to a minimum by means of a spherical mirror with a corrector plate near its focus.
  • scrophulariaceous — belonging to the Scrophulariaceae, the figwort family of plants.
  • semi-biographical — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • shipping articles — articles of agreement.
  • shuttle diplomacy — diplomatic negotiations carried out by a mediator who travels back and forth between the negotiating parties.
  • social psychology — the psychological study of social behavior, especially of the reciprocal influence of the individual and the group with which the individual interacts.
  • spanish civil war — the civil war in Spain 1936–39.
  • special schooling — the system of educating children with special needs in schools designed to meet their needs
  • spectroheliograph — an apparatus for making photographs of the sun with a monochromatic light to show the details of the sun's surface and surroundings as they would appear if the sun emitted only that light.
  • spectrohelioscope — a spectroheliograph.
  • speech difficulty — a problem encountered in speaking
  • spherical polygon — a closed figure formed by arcs of great circles on a spherical surface.
  • spoonbill catfish — flathead catfish.
  • spruce gall aphid — any of various homopterous insects of the family Adelgidae, as Adelges abietis (spruce gall aphid) and Pineus pinifoliae (pine leaf aphid) that feed and form galls on conifers.
  • stenothermophilic — growing best within a narrow temperature range.
  • teaching hospital — a hospital associated with a medical college and offering clinical and other facilities to those in various areas of medical study, as students, interns, and residents.
  • technical support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
  • telephone service — a company or public utility that provides a telephone-operating service
  • the plot thickens — People sometimes say 'the plot thickens' when a situation or series of events is getting more and more complicated and mysterious.
  • tip the scales at — to weigh (a specified amount)
  • twelve patriarchs — any of the sons of Jacob ((the twelve patriarchs),) from whom the tribes of Israel were descended.
  • unsympathetically — in a manner that is not characterized by feeling or showing sympathy
  • varix lymphaticus — a similar condition affecting an artery or lymphatic vessel
  • well-accomplished — completed; done; effected: an accomplished fact.
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