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14-letter words containing s, o, l, t, p

  • foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
  • football pools — If you do the football pools, you take part in a gambling competition in which people try to win money by guessing the results of football matches.
  • galactic poles — either of the two opposite points on the celestial sphere that are farthest north and south of the Milky Way.
  • galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
  • galactopoiesis — increasing the secretion of milk.
  • gallinas point — a cape in NE Colombia: the northernmost point of South America
  • galvanoplastic — pertaining to reproduction by electrotypy.
  • galvanotropism — the directional growth of an organism, esp a plant, in response to an electrical stimulus
  • galveston plan — commission plan.
  • gymslip mother — a girl of school age who has become a mother
  • hale telescope — the 200-inch (508-cm) reflector at the Palomar Observatory.
  • haplostemonous — (of plants) having the stamens arranged in a single whorl
  • heliosciophyte — any plant that grows in the shade, but thrives more in the sun
  • hepaticologist — a person who studies hepaticology
  • herpetologists — Plural form of herpetologist.
  • heterophyllous — having different kinds of leaves on the same plant.
  • heteroplasties — Plural form of heteroplasty.
  • histopathology — the science dealing with the histological structure of abnormal or diseased tissue; pathological histology.
  • histoplasmosis — an infectious disease of the reticuloendothelial system, caused by the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum and characterized by fever, anemia, and emaciation.
  • holy scripture — Scripture (def 1).
  • homotransplant — allograft.
  • hospitableness — The quality of being hospitable.
  • hospital board — the group of people responsible for the safe and efficient running of a hospital
  • hospital drama — a TV programme or series based on events in a hospital
  • hospital light — hopper casement.
  • hospital nurse — a hospital nurse works in a hospital, rather than with a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • hospital train — a military train equipped to transport wounded troops to a hospital.
  • hot gospelling — aggressive evangelizing of religious belief
  • hybristophilia — A paraphilia involving attraction to somebody who has committed a crime or outrage.
  • hypersomnolent — sleepy; drowsy.
  • hypocoristical — (rare) synonym of hypocoristic.
  • hypometabolism — The physiological state of having an decreased rate of metabolic activity.
  • hypostatically — In a hypostatic manner.
  • hypothalamus's — a region of the brain, between the thalamus and the midbrain, that functions as the main control center for the autonomic nervous system by regulating sleep cycles, body temperature, appetite, etc., and that acts as an endocrine gland by producing hormones, including the releasing factors that control the hormonal secretions of the pituitary gland.
  • impassionately — filled with passion; impassioned.
  • incompleteness — not complete; lacking some part.
  • insulinotropic — That stimulates or affects the production of insulin.
  • interpolations — Plural form of interpolation.
  • introspectible — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
  • isentropically — in an isentropic manner
  • isolated point — Mathematics. a point in a set such that the neighborhood of the point is devoid of any other points belonging to the set.
  • jet propulsion — the propulsion of a body by its reaction to a force ejecting a gas or a liquid from it.
  • kamloops trout — a variety of rainbow trout found in Canadian lakes
  • kastrop-rauxel — Castrop-Rauxel.
  • kentish plover — Charadrius alexandrinus, a small wading bird belonging to the plover family, breeding in the tropics and subtropics; it is white and greyish-brown, with black legs and bill
  • kleptoparasite — A bird, insect, or other animal that habitually robs animals of other species of food.
  • le misanthrope — a comedy (1666) by Molière.
  • leamington spa — a city in Warwickshire, central England: health resort.
  • legislatorship — The office or position of a legislator.
  • lepidopterists — Plural form of lepidopterist.
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