13-letter words containing p, h, o, r, e
- powder method — a method of x-ray determination of crystal structure using a powdered sample.
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
- premonishment — a forewarning
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
- private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
- professorship — the office or post of a professor.
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- prosectorship — the position or responsibility of a prosector
- protectorship — a person or thing that protects; defender; guardian.
- protest march — public demonstration
- protochordate — any of the nonvertebrate chordates, as the tunicates, cephalochordates, and hemichordates.
- pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
- psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
- psychosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in psychosurgery
- psychosurgery — treatment of mental disorders by means of brain surgery.
- psychotherapy — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
- pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
- pull together — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- pyretotherapy — therapy by raising the body temperature, as by diathermy or by artificially inducing fever.
- pyrheliometer — an instrument for measuring the total intensity of the sun's energy radiation.
- pyrophosphate — a salt or ester of pyrophosphoric acid.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- rapprochement — an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations: a rapprochement reached between warring factions.
- recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
- red-hot poker — tritoma.
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- reprographics — reprography.
- reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
- reupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- rheoreceptors — a receptor of fishes and aquatic amphibians stimulated by water currents.
- rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
- rosehip syrup — a syrup made from rosehips, used as a cough remedy
- rough passage — a stormy sea journey
- rough sleeper — a homeless person who sleeps rough
- sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
- schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
- schizophrenic — Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
- school report — written assessment of school pupil
- sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.