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14-letter words containing p, h, o, t, s, e

  • in the process — If you are doing something and you do something else in the process, you do the second thing as part of doing the first thing.
  • james stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
  • keep the books — to keep written records of the finances of a business or other enterprise
  • kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
  • keynote speech — opening address at a conference
  • know the ropes — to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
  • leukodystrophy — (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
  • lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
  • lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
  • machine pistol — a fully automatic pistol; submachine gun.
  • magnetospheres — Plural form of magnetosphere.
  • magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
  • major prophets — theology
  • mephistopheles — Medieval Demonology. one of the seven chief devils and the tempter of Faust.
  • metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
  • metamorphosise — (UK, nonstandard) To metamorphose.
  • metamorphosize — (US, nonstandard) To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.
  • metaphosphates — Plural form of metaphosphate.
  • metaphosphoric — applied to an acid (HPO3) containing a molecule less of water than orthophosphoric acid
  • metapsychology — speculative thought dealing systematically with concepts extending beyond the limits of psychology as an empirical science.
  • metempsychosis — the transmigration of the soul, especially the passage of the soul after death from a human or animal to some other human or animal body.
  • metencephalons — Plural form of metencephalon.
  • minor prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets
  • miss the point — fail to understand
  • monophthongise — Alternative spelling of monophthongize.
  • morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
  • morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
  • mother shipton — a day-flying noctuid moth, Callistege mi, mottled brown in colour and named from a fancied resemblance between its darker marking and a haggish profile
  • mountain sheep — wild sheep in mountainous area
  • nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
  • nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
  • oesophagectomy — (surgery) the surgical procedure for the removal of all, or part of the oesophagus.
  • omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
  • oophorectomies — Plural form of oophorectomy.
  • operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
  • ophthalmoscope — an instrument for viewing the interior of the eye or examining the retina.
  • opisthocoelous — relating to vertebrae in which the centrum is convex and the posterior is concave
  • orthodox sleep — dreamless sleep, characterized by a slow alpha rhythm of brain waves and no marked physiological changes.
  • orthophosphate — a salt or ester of orthophosphoric acid, or any compound containing the trivalent group −PO 4 .
  • osteodystrophy — (medicine) Any abnormal or defective development of a bone.
  • other expenses — Other expenses are expenses that do not relate to a company's main business.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
  • peritrichously — in a peritrichous manner; in a fashion characteristic of a peritrichous organism
  • petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
  • petrochemistry — the branch of chemistry dealing with petroleum or its products.
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