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15-letter words containing s, e, p, h, a, r

  • pre-established — to establish beforehand.
  • 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.
  • proscenium arch — the arch separating the stage from the auditorium
  • pseudepigraphon — any book of the Pseudepigrapha
  • pseudoarthrosis — a joint formed by fibrous tissue bridging the gap between the two fragments of bone of an old fracture that have not united
  • psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
  • psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
  • psychotherapist — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
  • purchase ledger — a record of a company's purchases of goods and services showing the amounts paid and due
  • quasi-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • raster graphics — (graphics)   Computer graphics in which an image is composed of an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Opposite: vector graphics.
  • release therapy — psychotherapy in which the patient finds emotional release in the expression of hostilities and emotional conflicts.
  • reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.
  • schopenhauerian — Arthur [ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1788–1860, German philosopher.
  • schopenhauerism — the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who taught that only the cessation of desire can solve the problems arising from the universal impulse of the will to live.
  • scrape together — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
  • semipornography — partial pornography; material that is almost pornographic
  • 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
  • serum hepatitis — hepatitis B.
  • share ownership — the owning of shares in a company
  • shark repellent — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
  • ship's articles — a type of contract by which sailors agree to the conditions, payment, etc, for the ship in which they are going to work
  • shopping arcade — a place where a number of shops are connected together under one roof
  • shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
  • somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
  • southern paiute — See under Paiute (def 2).
  • space character — a keyed space in text or data
  • spaghetti strap — a thin, often rounded strip of fabric used in women's clothing, as to form a shoulder strap on a bare-shouldered garment.
  • spanish america — the Spanish-speaking countries south of the U.S.: Mexico, Central America (with the exception of Belize), South America (with the exceptions of Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname), and most of the West Indies.
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • specific charge — the ratio of the charge on a particle to the mass of the particle.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
  • sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
  • spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
  • spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
  • splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
  • 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.
  • spread the word — make others aware
  • stirrup leather — the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.
  • strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
  • stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
  • stretcher party — a group of stretcher bearers and the stretchers they are carrying
  • substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
  • sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
  • sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
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