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

  • sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
  • spotted orchid — any of various common Eurasian orchids, esp the heath and common spotted orchids (Dactylorhiza maculata and D. fuchsii). The flowers are variable but usually have dark blotches
  • sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
  • spy-in-the-sky — of or relating to a surveillance camera mounted on an aircraft or orbiting satellite
  • st. john perse — (pseud. of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887-1975; Fr. diplomat & poet
  • st.-john perse — (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
  • stand the pace — to keep up with the speed or rate of others
  • steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • steganographer — an expert in steganography
  • steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala
  • stephen foster — Stephen (Collins) 1826–64, U.S. songwriter.
  • stephen kleene — (person)   Professor Stephen Cole Kleene (1909-01-05 - 1994-01-26) /steev'n (kohl) klay'nee/ An American mathematician whose work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison helped lay the foundations for modern computer science. Kleene was best known for founding the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory and for inventing regular expressions. The Kleene star and Ascending Kleene Chain are named after him. Kleene was born in Hartford, Conneticut, USA. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College in 1930. From 1930 to 1935, he was a graduate student and research assistant at Princeton University where he received his doctorate in mathematics in 1934. In 1935, he joined UW-Madison mathematics department as an instructor. He became an assistant professor in 1937. From 1939 to 1940, he was a visiting scholar at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study where he laid the foundation for recursive function theory, an area that would be his lifelong research interest. In 1941 he returned to Amherst as an associate professor of mathematics. During World War II Kleene was a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy. He was an instructor of navigation at the U.S. Naval Reserve's Midshipmen's School in New York, and then a project director at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. In 1946, he returned to Wisconsin, eventually becoming a full professor. He was chair of mathematics, and computer sciences in 1962 and 1963 and dean of the College of Letters and Science from 1969 to 1974. In 1964 he was named the Cyrus C. MacDuffee professor of mathematics. An avid mountain climber, Kleene had a strong interest in nature and the environment and was active in many conservation causes. He led several professional organisations, serving as president of the Association of Symbolic Logic from 1956 to 1958. In 1961, he served as president of the International Union of the History and the Philosophy of Science. Kleene pronounced his last name /klay'nee/. /klee'nee/ and /kleen/ are extremely common mispronunciations. His first name is /steev'n/, not /stef'n/. His son, Ken Kleene <[email protected]>, wrote: "As far as I am aware this pronunciation is incorrect in all known languages. I believe that this novel pronunciation was invented by my father."
  • stop the clock — an instrument for measuring and recording time, especially by mechanical means, usually with hands or changing numbers to indicate the hour and minute: not designed to be worn or carried about.
  • straight poker — one of the original forms of poker in which players are dealt five cards face down, upon which they bet and then have the showdown without drawing any cards.
  • streptothricin — an antibacterial substance produced by a soil fungus, Actinomyces lavendulae.
  • striped gopher — a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.
  • subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
  • subtherapeutic — indicating a dosage, as of a drug or vitamin, less than the amount required for a therapeutic effect.
  • sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
  • sulphacetamide — a topical antibiotic of the sulphonamide group, used to treat eye infections, as well as skin infections including acne
  • sulphonmethane — a colourless crystalline compound used medicinally as a hypnotic. Formula: C7H16O4S2
  • superphosphate — Also called acid phosphate. a mixture of calcium acid phosphate and calcium sulfate prepared by treating phosphate rock with sulfuric acid: used chiefly as a fertilizer.
  • supply teacher — A supply teacher is a teacher whose job is to take the place of other teachers at different schools when they are unable to be there.
  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
  • telephoto lens — a lens constructed so as to produce a relatively large image with a focal length shorter than that required by an ordinary lens producing an image of the same size: used to photograph small or distant objects.
  • text to speech — (application)   (TTS) Automatic conversion of text streams to voice.
  • the apple isle — Tasmania
  • the black caps — the international cricket team of New Zealand
  • the depression — the worldwide economic depression of the early 1930s, when there was mass unemployment
  • the game is up — If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.
  • the hispanidad — the common values and cultural attitudes shared between and linking Spain and the other Spanish-speaking countries of the world
  • the last trump — the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
  • the opposition — a political party or group opposed to the ruling party or government
  • the slush pile — the unsolicited manuscripts sent by hopeful authors to a publisher, considered as a whole
  • the space race — competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the superior power in outer space, in terms of exploration, manned space flights, and lunar landings; it is generally considered as beginning in 1957 and ending in the mid-1970s
  • the-suppliants — a tragedy (c463 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • theotocopoulos — Domenikos [th aw-men-ee-kaws] /ðɔˈmɛn i kɔs/ (Show IPA), El Greco.
  • theriomorphism — the identification of animal characteristics with a supernatural being
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
  • think positive — be optimistic
  • thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
  • tip one's hand — the act of tipping.
  • tip the scales — to exercise a decisive influence
  • to sleep rough — When people sleep or live rough, they sleep out of doors, usually because they have no home.
  • to the purpose — relevant; pertinent
  • top-hat scheme — a pension scheme for the senior executives of an organization
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