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17-letter words containing p, h, o, l

  • 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.
  • pull one's weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
  • pull your head in — be quiet!
  • purple chokeberry — See under chokeberry (def 1).
  • purple shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
  • push the envelope — a flat paper container, as for a letter or thin package, usually having a gummed flap or other means of closure.
  • put on the gloves — to box
  • pythagorean scale — the major scale as derived acoustically by Pythagoras from the perfect fifth.
  • radio in the loop — Wireless Local Loop
  • rehospitalization — the act, process, or state of being hospitalized.
  • republic of china — People's Republic of, a country in E Asia. 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Capital: Beijing.
  • republic-of-china — People's Republic of, a country in E Asia. 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Capital: Beijing.
  • reticulate python — a python, Python reticulatus, of southeastern Asia and the East Indies, sometimes growing to a length of 32 feet (10 meters): usually considered to be the largest snake in the world.
  • rodolphe kreutzer — Rodolphe [raw-dawlf] /rɔˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1766–1831, French violinist.
  • roll with a punch — to move in the same direction as a punch thrown at one so as to lessen its force
  • san pedro channel — a strait between the mainland of SW California and Santa Catalina Island. About 20 miles (32 km) wide.
  • 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.
  • school playground — school's outdoor recreation area
  • 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.
  • sexual dimorphism — the condition in which the males and females in a species are morphologically different, as with many birds.
  • sheepswool sponge — wool sponge.
  • shetland pullover — a thick woollen sweater made from Shetland wool
  • shetland sheepdog — one of a breed of small sheepdogs resembling a miniature collie, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
  • shopping bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • shopping-bag lady — bag lady (def 1).
  • shuttle diplomacy — diplomatic negotiations carried out by a mediator who travels back and forth between the negotiating parties.
  • slap on the wrist — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • social psychology — the psychological study of social behavior, especially of the reciprocal influence of the individual and the group with which the individual interacts.
  • 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.
  • spherical polygon — a closed figure formed by arcs of great circles on a spherical surface.
  • spin one's wheels — a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
  • spondylolisthesis — the forward displacement of a vertebra.
  • spoonbill catfish — flathead catfish.
  • spore mother cell — a cell from which a spore is produced
  • stenothermophilic — growing best within a narrow temperature range.
  • stereolithography — a process for creating three-dimensional objects using a computer-controlled laser to build up the required structure, layer by layer, from a liquid photopolymer that solidifies.
  • stump-jump plough — a plough designed for use on land not cleared of stumps
  • sulfurated potash — a yellowish-brown mixture consisting mainly of potassium polysulfides and potassium thiosulfate, used in treating mange.
  • swash plate motor — a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and converts reciprocating motion to rotation
  • take the place of — replace, be a substitute for
  • 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.
  • teething problems — If a project or new product has teething problems, it has problems in its early stages or when it first becomes available.
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