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17-letter words containing p, o, t, s

  • encephalomyelitis — Inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, typically due to acute viral infection.
  • enlarged prostate — disorder of male reproductive gland
  • epistemologically — In a manner that pertains to epistemology.
  • european standard — a specification to be used as a consistent rule or guideline in the manufacture or selling of a certain product or service traded within Europe
  • excess employment — excessive numbers of employees for the amount of work available
  • extrasolar planet — any other celestial body revolving around a star, illuminated by light from that star
  • factory inspector — a person who inspects factories
  • fictitious person — a legal entity or artificial person, as a corporation.
  • field post office — a place to which mail intended for military units in the field is sent to be sorted and forwarded
  • first performance — the first time that a play or concert is performed
  • first-loss policy — an insurance policy for goods in which a total loss is extremely unlikely and the insurer agrees to provide cover for a sum less than the total value of the property
  • fitness programme — a plan to help someone improve their health and physical condition
  • flash photography — photography using a momentary flash of artificial light as a source of illumination.
  • fluorescent strip — a fluorescent light in the form of a long strip
  • foot-pound-second — of or relating to the system of units in which the foot, pound, and second are the principal units of length, mass, and time. Abbreviation: fps, f.p.s.
  • for the most part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
  • forest enterprise — a British government department responsible for maintaining and expanding forests
  • from soup to nuts — a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
  • from the rooftops — If you shout something from the rooftops, you say it or announce it in a very public way.
  • gas chromatograph — a chromatograph used for the separation of volatile substances.
  • get one's back up — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • get one's wind up — to become (or be) nervous or alarmed
  • give up the ghost — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
  • go to ... expense — If you go to the expense of doing something, you do something which costs a lot of money. If you go to great expense to do something, you spend a lot of money in order to achieve it.
  • go-faster stripes — (jargon)   chrome. Mainstream in some parts of UK.
  • graduated pension — the money that an employee receives after retirement if they have paid into the graduated pension scheme
  • greater spearwort — a Eurasian ranunculaceous plant, Ranunculus lingua, which grows in wet places and has long narrow leaves and yellow flowers
  • gustavus adolphus — (Gustavus Adolphus) 1778–1837, king of Sweden 1792–1809 (son of Gustavus III).
  • gustavus-adolphus — (Gustavus Adolphus) 1778–1837, king of Sweden 1792–1809 (son of Gustavus III).
  • histopathological — the science dealing with the histological structure of abnormal or diseased tissue; pathological histology.
  • historiographical — the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
  • home improvements — improvements to one's home, such as new kitchens and bathrooms, central heating etc
  • hope against hope — the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best: to give up hope.
  • hospital gangrene — Pathology. a contagious, often fatal gangrene, especially involving amputation stumps and war wounds, occurring usually in crowded, ill-kept hospitals, and caused by putrefactive bacteria.
  • hospitality suite — a suite or room, as in a hotel or convention center, rented by a business firm, political candidate, or the like, to meet and entertain clients, potential customers, etc.
  • hot off the press — newspaper: freshly printed
  • hot-and-sour soup — a spicy Chinese soup made with pork, chicken, beans, vinegar, etc., served hot
  • housekeeping cart — A housekeeping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is used by a cleaner in a hotel to move clean bed linen, towels, and cleaning equipment.
  • http proxy server — (web)   A proxy server for HTTP requests. Typically an HTTP proxy or "web proxy" accepts HTTP requests containing URLs with a special prefix. The proxy removes the prefix and looks for the resulting URL in its local cache (if it is a caching proxy). If found, it returns the document immediately, otherwise it fetches it from the remote server, saves a copy in its cache and returns it to the requester. The cache will usually have an expiry algorithm which flushes documents according to their age, size and access history. The purpose is to reduce the amount of data flowing over the proxy's Internet connection and to speed up clients' access to frequently requested pages, e.g. at an ISP or on a large company's firewall. The proxy may also reject requests where the URL or content matches certain conditions. The Apache HTTP server can be configured to act as a proxy server. Another popular software proxy is Squid.
  • hung up on sb/sth — obsessively or exclusively interested in
  • hydrotherapeutics — hydrotherapy.
  • hyperbolic secant — a hyperbolic function that is the reciprocal of cosh; sech
  • hyperpolarisation — Alternative spelling of hyperpolarization.
  • hypocholesteremia — an abnormally low amount of cholesterol in the blood.
  • hyposensitization — The state or process of being reduced in sensitivity especially to an allergen.
  • hypsilophodontids — Plural form of hypsilophodontid.
  • hysteron proteron — a figure of speech in which the logical order of two elements in discourse is reversed, as in “bred and born” for “born and bred.”.
  • identity politics — political activity or movements based on or catering to the cultural, ethnic, gender, racial, religious, or social interests that characterize a group identity.
  • immunosuppressant — (pharmacology) Capable of immunosuppression, immunosuppressive.
  • impersonalization — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
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