15-letter words containing p, r, o, t, h, n
- pseudonephritis — a condition, thought to be benign, in which microscopic amounts of blood and protein are present in the urine, occurring commonly among athletes after strenuous exercise.
- psychohistorian — a person who writes psychohistory
- pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- put on the ritz — ostentatious or pretentious display.
- 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.
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- roentgenography — roentgenogram.
- scratching post — a block or post of wood, usually covered with carpeting, on which a cat can use its claws.
- shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
- shooting script — a motion-picture scenario having the scenes arranged in the order in which they are to be photographed.
- shopping center — a group of stores within a single architectural plan, supplying most of the basic shopping needs, especially in suburban areas.
- shopping centre — A shopping centre is a specially built area containing a lot of different shops.
- southern paiute — See under Paiute (def 2).
- spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
- spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
- sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
- stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
- symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
- the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
- the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
- theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
- thought pattern — habitual way of thinking
- thraco-phrygian — a hypothetical branch of Indo-European implying a special genetic affinity between the meagerly attested Thracian and Phrygian languages.
- threepennyworth — an amount having the value or price of threepence
- trainspotterish — obsessed with trivial details, esp of a subject generally considered uninteresting
- ultrasonography — a diagnostic imaging technique utilizing reflected high-frequency sound waves to delineate, measure, or examine internal body structures or organs.
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.