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15-letter words containing p, o, t, h, l, e

  • phytoflagellate — any microscopic flagellate that is photosynthetic.
  • plain chocolate — dark eating chocolate
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
  • poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
  • polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
  • polyphemus moth — a large, yellowish-brown American silkworm moth, Antheraea polyphemus, having a prominent eyespot on each hind wing and feeding on cherry, apple, and other trees.
  • posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
  • potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
  • propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
  • pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
  • pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
  • radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
  • radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
  • radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
  • rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
  • self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
  • 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
  • sodium sulphate — a solid white substance that occurs naturally as thenardite and is usually used as the white anhydrous compound (salt cake) or the white crystalline decahydrate (Glauber's salt) in making glass, detergents, and pulp. Formula: Na2SO4
  • sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • spin the bottle — a game in which someone spins a bottle and receives a kiss from the person at whom the bottle points on coming to rest.
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • telephone booth — a more or less soundproof booth containing a public telephone.
  • telephotography — photography of distant objects, using a telephoto lens.
  • thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
  • thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
  • the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • the good people — fairies
  • the jos plateau — a plateau in Nigeria with an average altitude of 1280 metres
  • the other place — (at Oxford University) Cambridge University
  • the paleolithic — the Paleolithic period, subdivided into the Lower (to c. 150,000 b.c.), Middle (to c. 38,000 b.c.), and Upper stages; Old Stone Age
  • the peloponnese — the S peninsula of Greece, joined to central Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth: chief cities in ancient times were Sparta and Corinth, now Patras. Pop: 503 300 (2001). Area: 21 439 sq km (8361 sq miles)
  • the pleistocene — the Pleistocene epoch or rock series
  • the riot police — the section of the police force that is trained to deal with people who cause trouble in public places
  • threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
  • to fly the coop — If you say that someone has flown the coop, you mean that they have left a place or situation that limits their freedom.
  • top-of-the-line — being the best and usually the most expensive of its kind: The company previewed its top-of-the-line carpeting.
  • uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
  • well-brought-up — If you say that someone, especially a child, is well-brought-up, you mean that they are very polite because they have been taught good manners.
  • west hartlepool — a former borough, now part of Hartlepool, in Cleveland County, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tees.
  • white corpuscle — white blood cell.
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