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14-letter words containing s, e, p, h, a

  • money-purchase — relating to a pension scheme in which both employer and employee make contributions to a fund that is used to buy an annuity on retirement. The amount paid as a pension depends on the size of the fund
  • morse alphabet — the set of symbols used to represent letters in Morse code
  • mountain sheep — wild sheep in mountainous area
  • myrmecophagous — Pertaining to the anteater.
  • nasopharyngeal — the part of the pharynx behind and above the soft palate, directly continuous with the nasal passages. Compare oropharynx (def 2).
  • nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
  • nephroblastoma — a malignant tumour arising from the embryonic kidney that occurs in young children, esp in the age range 3–8 years
  • non perishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
  • nonsuch palace — a former royal palace in Cuddington in London: built in 1538 for Henry VIII; later visited by Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, and Charles II; demolished (1682–1702)
  • oceanographers — Plural form of oceanographer.
  • oesophagectomy — (surgery) the surgical procedure for the removal of all, or part of the oesophagus.
  • oesophagoscope — Alternative form of esophagoscope.
  • omphaloskepsis — contemplation of one's navel as part of a mystical exercise.
  • omphaloskeptic — One who contemplates or meditates upon one's navel; one who engages in omphaloscopy.
  • one-upsmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
  • openhandedness — The characteristic of being openhanded.
  • operating cash — the amount of cash or money that a business generates
  • ophthalmoscope — an instrument for viewing the interior of the eye or examining the retina.
  • orphan process — (operating system)   A Unix process whose original parent has terminated and which has become a child of "init(1)". Compare zombie.
  • orthophosphate — a salt or ester of orthophosphoric acid, or any compound containing the trivalent group −PO 4 .
  • overemphasised — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasise.
  • overemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasize.
  • overemphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overemphasize.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
  • paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
  • paedomorphosis — the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines
  • panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
  • paper-shredder — a piece of machinery which shreds paper into fine strips, so as to destroy private documents, etc
  • paper-shuffler — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • para-synthesis — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
  • paraphernalias — (sometimes used with a singular verb) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia.
  • parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
  • parish records — historical documents of a district
  • part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
  • paschal letter — (in the early Christian church) a letter, written by a patriarch, archbishop, or bishop to a cleric under his authority, announcing the date of the next Easter festival.
  • paschen series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
  • passenger ship — a ship carrying passengers
  • patheticalness — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
  • petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
  • phase-wrapping — (MIT) wrap around.
  • pheasant's eye — an annual ranunculaceous plant, Adonis annua (or autumnalis), with scarlet flowers and finely divided leaves: native to S Europe but naturalized elsewhere
  • phenosafranine — safranine (def 2).
  • philippine sea — part of the NW Pacific Ocean, east and north of the Philippines
  • philosophaster — a person who has only a superficial knowledge of philosophy or who feigns a knowledge he or she does not possess.
  • phosphate rock — phosphorite.
  • photorealistic — a style of painting flourishing in the 1970s, especially in the U.S., England, and France, and depicting commonplace scenes or ordinary people, with a meticulously detailed realism, flat images, and barely discernible brushwork that suggests and often is based on or incorporates an actual photograph.
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