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15-letter words containing p, o, c, h

  • polish corridor — a strip of land near the mouth of the Vistula River: formerly separated Germany from East Prussia; given to Poland in the Treaty of Versailles 1919 to provide it with access to the Baltic.
  • polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
  • polychloroprene — a chloroprene polymer
  • polymorphically — in a polymorphic manner
  • posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
  • postsynchronize — to add sound, such as dubbing, to a film or video after shooting is completed
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
  • progress chaser — a person employed to make sure at each stage, esp of a manufacturing process, that a piece of work is on schedule and is delivered to the customer on time
  • proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
  • pseudo-chemical — of, used in, produced by, or concerned with chemistry or chemicals: a chemical formula; chemical agents.
  • psychoacoustics — the study of sound perception.
  • psychobiography — a biographical study focusing on psychological factors, as childhood traumas and unconscious motives.
  • psychobiologist — 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.
  • psychochemistry — the treatment of mental illnesses by drugs
  • psychodiagnosis — a psychological examination using psychodiagnostic techniques.
  • psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
  • psychographical — relating to psychographics
  • psychohistorian — a person who writes psychohistory
  • psychologically — of or relating to psychology.
  • psychopathology — the science or study of mental disorders.
  • psychophysicist — a person who specializes in psychophysics
  • psychosociology — the study of subjects, issues, and problems common to psychology and sociology.
  • psychosynthesis — a theoretical effort to reconcile components of the unconscious, including dreams, with the rest of the personality.
  • psychotherapist — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
  • psychotomimetic — (of a substance or drug) tending to produce symptoms like those of a psychosis; hallucinatory.
  • public footpath — a footpath along which the public has right of way
  • puerto ayacucho — a city in S Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
  • pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • push one's luck — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
  • pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
  • pyrrhic victory — a victory or goal achieved at too great a cost.
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • reported speech — indirect quotation
  • reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.
  • rhombencephalon — the hindbrain.
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • scaphocephalous — of or relating to scaphocephalus
  • schopenhauerian — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
  • scrape together — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
  • scratching post — a block or post of wood, usually covered with carpeting, on which a cat can use its claws.
  • self-censorship — the act or practice of censoring.
  • separate school — (in Canada) a school for a large religious minority financed by its rates and administered by its own school board but under the authority of the provincial department of education
  • shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
  • shooting script — a motion-picture scenario having the scenes arranged in the order in which they are to be photographed.
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • shopping center — a group of stores within a single architectural plan, supplying most of the basic shopping needs, especially in suburban areas.
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