16-letter words containing p, o, s, h, e, t
- head post office — the main post office in a town
- health food shop — a shop which sells health foods
- health inspector — a public employee who inspects places such as restaurants, shops, factories etc to make sure they are hygienic and do not pose any dangers to health
- heat prostration — heat exhaustion.
- hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
- hepatopancreases — Plural form of hepatopancreas.
- high/great hopes — If you have high hopes or great hopes that something will happen, you are confident that it will happen.
- historiographies — Plural form of historiography.
- hit one's straps — to achieve one's full potential or become fully effective
- hospital corners — 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.
- hospital service — the whole organization of government funded hospitals, their staff, and the services they provide
- household troops — the infantry and cavalry regiments that carry out escort and guard duties for a head of state
- hubble telescope — a telescope launched into orbit around the earth in 1990 to provide information about the universe in the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet ranges
- hyper-patriotism — devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty.
- hypercorrections — Plural form of hypercorrection.
- hypercorrectness — The state or condition of being hypercorrect.
- hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
- hypnagogic state — the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
- hypophosphatemia — (medicine) An electrolyte disturbance in which there is an abnormally low level of phosphate in the blood, most commonly seen when malnourished patients are given large amounts of carbohydrates, creating a high phosphorus demand in the cells of the body.
- hypophysectomies — Plural form of hypophysectomy.
- import surcharge — a tax imposed on all imported goods, adding to any established tariffs
- in lockstep with — progressing at exactly the same speed and in the same direction as other people or things, esp as a matter of course rather than by choice
- in plain clothes — not wearing a uniform
- in the spotlight — prominently featured
- inhospitableness — The quality of being inhospitable.
- james oglethorpe — James Edward, 1696–1785, British general: founder of the colony of Georgia.
- john the baptist — the forerunner and baptizer of Jesus. Matt. 3.
- josephson effect — a high-speed switch, used in experimental computers, that operates on the basis of a radiative phenomenon (Jo·sephson effect) exhibited by a pair of superconductors separated by a thin insulator.
- light microscope — microscope (def 1).
- lighthouse point — a city in NW Florida.
- macpherson strut — an automobile suspension-system component that consists of a strut combined with a spring and shock absorber and connects the wheel to the frame of the vehicle.
- matthew of paris — c1200–59, English chronicler.
- mechanoreceptors — Plural form of mechanoreceptor.
- metamorphosising — Present participle of metamorphosise.
- microstethoscope — a stethoscope containing an apparatus that greatly amplifies the sounds heard.
- neapolitan sixth — (in musical harmony) a chord composed of the subdominant of the key, plus a minor third and a minor sixth. Harmonically it is equivalent to the first inversion of a major chord built upon the flattened supertonic
- neuropathologies — the pathology of the nervous system.
- neuropathologist — A specialist who practices neuropathology.
- neuropsychiatric — Of or pertaining to neuropsychiatry; simultaneously neurological and psychiatric.
- neutrosophic set — (logic) A generalisation of the intuitionistic set, classical set, fuzzy set, paraconsistent set, dialetheist set, paradoxist set, tautological set based on Neutrosophy. An element x(T, I, F) belongs to the set in the following way: it is t true in the set, i indeterminate in the set, and f false, where t, i, and f are real numbers taken from the sets T, I, and F with no restriction on T, I, F, nor on their sum n=t+i+f. The neutrosophic set generalises: - the intuitionistic set, which supports incomplete set theories (for 0
- non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
- north massapequa — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- northamptonshire — a county in central England. 914 sq. mi. (2365 sq. km).
- oesophagogastric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the oesophagus and the stomach.
- on the same page — one side of a leaf of something printed or written, as a book, manuscript, or letter.
- on the scrapheap — (of people or things) having outlived their usefulness
- on-the-spot fine — a fine that is charged immediately upon being caught and found guilty of a crime
- open parenthesis — left parenthesis
- ophthalmoparesis — (medicine) A partial or complete paralysis of the extraocular muscles which are responsible for eye movements.