15-letter words containing p, s, e, h
- pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
- pigeon shooting — the act of hunting and shooting live pigeons
- pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
- pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
- pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
- pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
- pixels per inch — (unit, graphics) (ppi) The unit used to measure resolution of a bitmap display or video input device.
- plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
- planter's punch — a punch made with rum, lime juice, sugar, and water or soda.
- platyhelminthes — a phylum of worms having bilateral symmetry and a soft, usually flattened body, comprising the flatworms.
- plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
- poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
- 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.
- polyphloesboean — noisy
- pontine marshes — an area of W Italy, southeast of Rome: formerly malarial swamps, drained in 1932–34 after numerous attempts since 160 bc had failed
- posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
- posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
- postsynchronize — to add sound, such as dubbing, to a film or video after shooting is completed
- potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
- power macintosh — Power Mac
- pre-established — to establish beforehand.
- press the flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- probationership — the position of a probationer
- process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
- progress chaser — a person employed to make sure at each stage, esp of a manufacturing process, that a piece of work is on schedule and is delivered to the customer on time
- propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
- property rights — a legal right to or in a particular property.
- proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
- pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
- pseudo-bohemian — living a wandering or vagabond life, as a Gypsy.
- pseudo-chemical — of, used in, produced by, or concerned with chemistry or chemicals: a chemical formula; chemical agents.
- pseudoarthrosis — a joint formed by fibrous tissue bridging the gap between the two fragments of bone of an old fracture that have not united
- pseudoephedrine — a dextrorotatory, isomeric compound, C 1 0 H 1 5 NO, used as a nasal decongestant.
- pseudohexagonal — of, relating to, or having the form of a hexagon.
- 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.
- psychedelically — of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.
- psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
- psychochemistry — the treatment of mental illnesses by drugs
- psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
- psychosynthesis — a theoretical effort to reconcile components of the unconscious, including dreams, with the rest of the personality.
- psychotherapist — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- psychotomimetic — (of a substance or drug) tending to produce symptoms like those of a psychosis; hallucinatory.
- purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
- push one's luck — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- push up daisies — any of various composite plants the flowers of which have a yellow disk and white rays, as the English daisy and the oxeye daisy.
- put on the spot — If you put someone on the spot, you cause them to have to answer a difficult question or make a difficult decision.
- put sb to death — If someone is put to death, they are executed.
- put sb to shame — If someone puts you to shame, they make you feel ashamed because they do something much better than you do.
- put the nips in — to exert pressure on someone, esp in order to extort money
- put to the test — check performance