14-letter words containing p, o, t, h, e, r
- hyperosteogeny — excessive bone development.
- hyperoxygenate — to treat, combine, or enrich with oxygen: to oxygenate the blood.
- hypersecretion — an excessive secretion.
- hypersomnolent — sleepy; drowsy.
- hypertrichosis — excessive growth of hair.
- hypertrophical — relating to hypertrophy
- hypertrophying — abnormal enlargement of a part or organ; excessive growth.
- hyperviscosity — the abnormal thickening of a liquid
- hypnotherapist — A practitioner of hypnotherapy.
- hypotrachelium — (on a classical column) any member, as a necking, between the capital and the shaft.
- hysteroscopies — Plural form of hysteroscopy.
- impoverishment — to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- in the process — If you are doing something and you do something else in the process, you do the second thing as part of doing the first thing.
- interparochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
- itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
- john davenport — John, 1597–1670, Puritan clergyman: one of the founders of New Haven.
- kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
- keratinophilic — (of a plant such as a fungus) growing on keratinous substances such as hair, hooves, nails, etc
- know the ropes — to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
- le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
- legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
- leukodystrophy — (medicine) Any of a group of disorders characterized by progressive degeneration of the white matter of the brain, caused by imperfect growth or development of the myelin sheath that acts as an insulator around nerve fibres.
- lexicographist — (chiefly, archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
- magnetospheres — Plural form of magnetosphere.
- magnetospheric — Of, pertaining to, or happening within the magnetosphere.
- major prophets — theology
- mechanotherapy — curative treatment by mechanical means.
- metallotherapy — therapy by the use of metals or their salts.
- metamorphizing — Present participle of metamorphize.
- metamorphosing — to change the form or nature of; transform.
- metamorphosise — (UK, nonstandard) To metamorphose.
- metamorphosize — (US, nonstandard) To undergo the process of metamorphosis; to metamorphose.
- metaphorically — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
- metaphosphoric — applied to an acid (HPO3) containing a molecule less of water than orthophosphoric acid
- 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
- mixed metaphor — the use in the same expression of two or more metaphors that are incongruous or illogical when combined, as in “The president will put the ship of state on its feet.”.
- mononeuropathy — A neuropathy that affects only a single nerve (as distinguished from polyneuropathy).
- morphotonemics — the morphophonemics of tonal phenomena.
- morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
- moth repellent — a chemical produced and sold to keep moths off clothes
- 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
- nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
- nephrectomized — to perform a nephrectomy upon.
- nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
- nephrotoxicity — The state or condition of being nephrotoxic.
- neuropathology — the pathology of the nervous system.
- nontherapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
- northern porgy — a common sparid fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of American coastal regions of the Atlantic
- omphalocentric — Overly introspective and inclined to navel-gazing.
- on the improve — improving