16-letter words containing p, h, y, s, i, c
- polyphonic prose — prose characterized by the use of poetic devices, as alliteration, assonance, rhyme, etc., and especially by an emphasis on rhythm not strictly metered.
- prison psychosis — a state of mental confusion, transitory or permanent, brought on by incarceration or by the anticipation of imprisonment.
- psychic distance — the degree of emotional detachment maintained toward a person, group of people, event, etc.
- psychoanalytical — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
- psychobiological — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- psychogeriatrics — the psychology of old age.
- psychoimmunology — the branch of medicine studying the effects of psychological phenomena on the immune system; the intersection of psychology and immunology.
- psychophysiology — the branch of physiology that deals with the interrelation of mental and physical phenomena.
- public schoolboy — a boy attending a public school, or a man who attended one
- schneider trophy — a trophy for air racing between seaplanes of any nation, first presented by Jacques Schneider (1879–1928) in 1913; won outright by Britain in 1931
- shipping company — business that sends goods overseas
- social pathology — a social factor, as poverty, old age, or crime, that tends to increase social disorganization and inhibit personal adjustment.
- spectrochemistry — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical analysis of substances by means of the spectra of light they absorb or emit.
- speech community — the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.
- speech synthesis — computer-generated audio output that imitates human speech
- spraying machine — a device for spraying large volumes of liquid, such as insecticide onto crops
- synthetic speech — computer-generated audio output that resembles human speech, produced by an electronic synthesizer operated by means of a keyboard.
- system on a chip — A system on a chip combines most of a system's elements on a single integrated circuit or chip.
- thermoplasticity — soft and pliable when heated, as some plastics, without any change of the inherent properties.
- typhoid bacillus — the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.
- yah-boo politics — adversarial politics in which politicians constantly deride their opponents and dismiss everything suggested by them