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14-letter words containing s, h, i, l, e, a

  • phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • phraseological — manner or style of verbal expression; characteristic language: legal phraseology.
  • phyllosilicate — any silicate mineral having the tetrahedral silicate groups linked in sheets, each group containing four oxygen atoms, three of which are shared with other groups so that the ratio of silicon atoms to oxygen atoms is two to five.
  • physical layer — (networking)   Layer one, the lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The physical layer encompasses details such as electrical and mechanical connections to the network, transmission of binary data as changing voltage levels on wires or similar concepts on other connectors, and data rates. The physical layer is used by the data link layer. Example physical layer protocols are CSMA/CD, token ring and bus.
  • pink elephants — a facetious name applied to hallucinations caused by drunkenness
  • plasmapheresis — a type of apheresis in which blood cells are returned to the bloodstream of the donor and the plasma is used, as for tranfusion.
  • pleurapophysis — one of the lateral processes of a vertebra forming the ribs
  • polysaccharide — a carbohydrate, as starch, inulin, or cellulose, containing more than three monosaccharide units per molecule, the units being attached to each other in the manner of acetals, and therefore capable of hydrolysis by acids or enzymes to monosaccharides.
  • prairie school — a group of early 20th-century architects of the Chicago area who designed houses and other buildings with emphasized horizontal lines responding to the flatness of the Midwestern prairie; the best-known member was Frank Lloyd Wright.
  • preestablished — to establish beforehand.
  • private school — a school founded, conducted, and maintained by a private group rather than by the government, usually charging tuition and often following a particular philosophy, viewpoint, etc.
  • prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
  • psephoanalysis — the statistical and sociological analysis of election trends and results
  • pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
  • psychochemical — pertaining to chemicals or drugs that affect the mind or behavior.
  • recklinghausen — a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
  • residence hall — Residence halls are buildings with rooms or apartments, usually built by universities or colleges, in which students live during the school year.
  • rheumatologist — a specialist in rheumatology, especially a physician who specializes in the treatment of rheumatic diseases, as arthritis, lupus erythematosus, and scleroderma.
  • rhizocephalous — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • rhode islander — a person born or living in Rhode Island
  • ride the rails — Someone who rides the rails travels by train, especially over a long period of time and without buying a ticket.
  • royal highness — a title used prior to 1917 and designating a brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, or uncle belonging to the male line of the royal family. a title used since 1917 and designating a child or grandchild of the sovereign. any person given this title by the Crown.
  • russia leather — a fine, smooth leather produced by careful tanning and dyeing, especially in dark red: originally prepared in Russia.
  • sailing length — a measurement of a yacht, comprising its length on the water line as well as certain measurements taken from the overhangs at bow and stern.
  • sakha republic — an administrative division in E Russia, in NE Siberia on the Arctic Ocean: the coldest inhabited region of the world; it has rich mineral resources. Capital: Yakutsk. Pop: 948 100 (2002). Area: 3 103 200 sq km (1 197 760 sq miles)
  • sandhill crane — a North American crane, Grus canadensis, having bluish-gray plumage and a red forehead.
  • sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
  • satellite dish — dish (def 8).
  • scaphocephalic — premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
  • sceuophylacium — a place where sacred vessels are kept
  • scheduling api — Scheduling Application Programming Interface
  • scheme library — (library)   (SLIB) A portable Scheme library providing compatibiliy and utility functions for all standard Scheme implementations. Version 2c5 supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK, GAMBIT, MacScheme, MITScheme, PocketScheme, RScheme, Scheme->C, Scheme48, SCM, SCSH, T3.1, UMB-Scheme, and VSCM.
  • schleiermacher — Friedrich Ernst Daniel [free-drikh ernst dah-nee-el] /ˈfri drɪx ɛrnst ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1768–1834, German theologian and philosopher.
  • schoolteaching — the profession of a schoolteacher.
  • scratchbuilder — a person who scratchbuilds
  • self-hardening — noting or pertaining to any of various steels that harden after heating without quenching or other treatment.
  • self-searching — examining carefully or thoroughly: a searching inspection.
  • semi-spherical — shaped like half a sphere; hemispheric.
  • shallow-minded — lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; superficial
  • sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
  • sheffield lake — a town in N Ohio.
  • shield volcano — a broad volcano built up from the repeated nonexplosive eruption of basalt to form a low dome or shield, usually having a large caldera at the summit
  • shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
  • shropshire lad — a volume of poetry (1896) by A. E. Housman.
  • shut in a well — To shut in a well is to close off a well so that it stops producing.
  • sickle feather — one of the paired, elongated, sickle-shaped, middle feathers of the tail of the rooster.
  • sidereal month — Also called calendar month. any of the twelve parts, as January or February, into which the calendar year is divided.
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