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15-letter words containing p, h

  • sulphur springs — a town in NE Texas.
  • sulphurous acid — an unstable acid produced when sulphur dioxide dissolves in water: used as a preservative for food and a bleaching agent. Formula: H2SO3
  • sumatra camphor — borneol.
  • superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
  • superphenomenon — a phenomenon that is beyond the typical qualities of phenomena
  • swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
  • sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
  • sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
  • symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
  • take the pledge — a solemn promise or agreement to do or refrain from doing something: a pledge of aid; a pledge not to wage war.
  • take the plunge — to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
  • telegraph plant — a tick trefoil, Desmodium motorium, of the legume family, native to tropical Asia, noted for the spontaneous, jerking, signallike motions of its leaflets.
  • telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • telephone booth — a more or less soundproof booth containing a public telephone.
  • telephotography — photography of distant objects, using a telephoto lens.
  • teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
  • thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
  • thalassographic — relating to thalassography
  • thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
  • the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
  • the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • the disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
  • the good people — fairies
  • the grim reaper — death
  • the handicapped — those who are physically disabled or mentally retarded
  • the jos plateau — a plateau in Nigeria with an average altitude of 1280 metres
  • the last supper — the supper of Jesus and His disciples on the eve of His Crucifixion. Compare Lord's Supper (def 1).
  • the other place — (at Oxford University) Cambridge University
  • the paleolithic — the Paleolithic period, subdivided into the Lower (to c. 150,000 b.c.), Middle (to c. 38,000 b.c.), and Upper stages; Old Stone Age
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
  • the peach state — a nickname for Georgia, a state in southeastern United States
  • the peloponnese — the S peninsula of Greece, joined to central Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth: chief cities in ancient times were Sparta and Corinth, now Patras. Pop: 503 300 (2001). Area: 21 439 sq km (8361 sq miles)
  • the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
  • the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
  • the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
  • the precambrian — the Precambrian era
  • the present day — The present day is the period of history that we are in now.
  • the prime mover — God, esp when considered as a first cause
  • the proprieties — the standards of behaviour considered correct by polite society
  • the proterozoic — the Proterozoic Eon or its rocks
  • the public weal — the public good; the good of society
  • the riot police — the section of the police force that is trained to deal with people who cause trouble in public places
  • the upper karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • the upper ranks — the higher divisions of the armed forces
  • the upper rhine — the section of the Rhine between Basel, Switzerland and Bingen, Germany
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