15-letter words containing p, o, i, s, e
- gopher tortoise — any North American burrowing tortoise of the genus Gopherus, especially G. polyphemus, of the southeastern U.S.: several species are now reduced in number.
- gossipmongering — The behaviour of a gossipmonger; the spreading of salacious rumours.
- grasshopper pie — a custardlike pie, flavored and colored with green crème de menthe and served in a graham-cracker crust.
- group insurance — life, accident, or health insurance available to a group of persons, as the employees of a company, under a single contract, usually without regard to physical condition or age of the individuals.
- group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
- have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
- hermaphroditism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- high priesthood — the condition or office of a high priest.
- historiographer — a historian, especially one appointed to write an official history of a group, period, or institution.
- hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
- house physician — a house officer working in a medical as opposed to a surgical discipline
- housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
- hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
- hyperovarianism — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
- hyperpotassemia — hyperkalemia.
- hyperresponsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- hyperthyroidism — overactivity of the thyroid gland.
- hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
- hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
- hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
- hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
- hypomagnesaemia — the condition of having too little magnesium in the blood, particularly in cattle, in which it is also known as lactation tetany
- hyposensitivity — low or diminished sensitivity to stimulation.
- hysteresis loop — a closed curve showing the variation of the magnetic flux density of a ferromagnetic material with the external magnetic field producing it, when this field is changed through a complete cycle
- i don't suppose — You can say 'I don't suppose' as a way of introducing a polite request.
- immune response — any of the body's immunologic reactions to an antigen.
- impecuniousness — The property of being impecunious.
- implementations — Plural form of implementation.
- implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
- importunateness — Quality of being importunate.
- impossibilities — Plural form of impossibility.
- impressionistic — a person who follows or adheres to the theories, methods, and practices of impressionism, especially in the fields of painting, music, or literature.
- improvvisatrice — Alternative form of improvisatrice.
- in one's pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- in spite of sth — You use in spite of to introduce a fact which makes the rest of the statement you are making seem surprising.
- in the shape of — You can use in the shape of to state exactly who or what you are referring to, immediately after referring to them in a general way.
- incapaciousness — the quality of not having (sufficiently) great capacity
- incomprehension — lack of comprehension or understanding: The audience listened politely but with incomprehension.
- incomprehensive — not comprehensive.
- inoperativeness — The state or condition of being inoperative; nonfunction.
- inopportuneness — The quality of being inopportune.
- inspection arms — a position in military drill in which the missile chamber of a weapon is open for inspection.
- intercomparison — mutual comparison
- interior-sprung — (esp of a mattress) containing springs
- interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.