14-letter words containing p, o, s, h, e
- metencephalons — Plural form of metencephalon.
- microcephalous — Microcephalic.
- micropublisher — a publisher of material in microfilm
- microspherical — relating to or designating a microsphere
- minor prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets
- miss the point — fail to understand
- money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
- monophthongise — Alternative spelling of monophthongize.
- morphophonemes — Plural form of morphophoneme.
- morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
- morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
- mother shipton — a day-flying noctuid moth, Callistege mi, mottled brown in colour and named from a fancied resemblance between its darker marking and a haggish profile
- mountain sheep — wild sheep in mountainous area
- musculophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm.
- myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
- myrmecophilous — (biology) Adapted to thrive in the presence of ants.
- nasopharyngeal — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
- nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
- nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
- non perishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- nonphilosopher — a person who is not a philosopher
- nonsuch palace — a former royal palace in Cuddington in London: built in 1538 for Henry VIII; later visited by Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, and Charles II; demolished (1682–1702)
- oceanographers — Plural form of oceanographer.
- oesophagectomy — (surgery) the surgical procedure for the removal of all, or part of the oesophagus.
- oesophagoscope — Alternative form of esophagoscope.
- omphaloskepsis — contemplation of one's navel as part of a mystical exercise.
- omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
- one-upsmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
- oophorectomies — Plural form of oophorectomy.
- openhandedness — The characteristic of being openhanded.
- operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
- ophthalmoscope — an instrument for viewing the interior of the eye or examining the retina.
- opisthocoelous — relating to vertebrae in which the centrum is convex and the posterior is concave
- orphan process — (operating system) A Unix process whose original parent has terminated and which has become a child of "init(1)". Compare zombie.
- orthodox sleep — dreamless sleep, characterized by a slow alpha rhythm of brain waves and no marked physiological changes.
- orthophosphate — a salt or ester of orthophosphoric acid, or any compound containing the trivalent group −PO 4 .
- osteodystrophy — (medicine) Any abnormal or defective development of a bone.
- other expenses — Other expenses are expenses that do not relate to a company's main business.
- overemphasised — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasise.
- overemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasize.
- overemphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overemphasize.
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
- paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
- paedomorphosis — the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- parish records — historical documents of a district
- part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
- pension scheme — savings fund for retirement
- peritrichously — in a peritrichous manner; in a fashion characteristic of a peritrichous organism