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15-letter words containing s, h, e, r, t

  • phototypesetter — a machine for phototypesetting
  • physiotherapist — physical therapy.
  • pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
  • pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
  • pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
  • planter's punch — a punch made with rum, lime juice, sugar, and water or soda.
  • plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
  • poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
  • 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.
  • propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
  • property rights — a legal right to or in a particular property.
  • pseudoarthrosis — a joint formed by fibrous tissue bridging the gap between the two fragments of bone of an old fracture that have not united
  • 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.
  • psychochemistry — the treatment of mental illnesses by drugs
  • 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.
  • raise one's hat — to take one's hat briefly off one's head as a greeting or mark of respect
  • raise the devil — Theology. (sometimes initial capital letter) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan. a subordinate evil spirit at enmity with God, and having power to afflict humans both with bodily disease and with spiritual corruption.
  • raster graphics — (graphics)   Computer graphics in which an image is composed of an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Opposite: vector graphics.
  • refreshment bar — a bar or stall that offers a variety of drinks for sale
  • relative to sth — Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it.
  • release therapy — psychotherapy in which the patient finds emotional release in the expression of hostilities and emotional conflicts.
  • religious right — US right-wing Christian movement
  • reorchestration — a renewed or second orchestration of a piece of music, the act of reorchestrating
  • reported speech — indirect quotation
  • reserve tranche — the quota of 25 per cent to which a member of the IMF has unconditional access. Prior to 1978 it was paid in gold and known as the gold tranche
  • 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.
  • reversing light — Reversing lights are the white lights on the back of a motor vehicle which shine when the vehicle is in reverse gear.
  • rhesus negative — relating to blood not containing Rhesus antigen D
  • rhesus positive — relating to blood containing Rhesus antigen D
  • rheumatism-root — spotted wintergreen.
  • rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
  • right ascension — the arc of the celestial equator measured eastward from the vernal equinox to the foot of the great circle passing through the celestial poles and a given point on the celestial sphere, expressed in degrees or hours.
  • right of search — the privilege of a nation at war to search neutral ships on the high seas for contraband or other matter, carried in violation of neutrality, that may subject the ship to seizure.
  • right to choose — the right of a woman to have a legal abortion if she chooses to do so.
  • riverworthiness — (of a boat) the quality or state of being riverworthy
  • rochester hills — city in SE Mich., near Detroit: pop. 69,000
  • rocket research — research into rocket engines for spacecraft
  • rolle's theorem — the theorem that a differentiable function having equal values at the endpoints of an interval has a derivative equal to zero at some point in the interval.
  • round the twist — mad; eccentric
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
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