16-letter words containing s, o, p, h
- chinese primrose — any plant of the genus Primula, as P. vulgaris (English primrose) of Europe, having yellow flowers, or P. sinensis (Chinese primrose) of China, having flowers in a variety of colors. Compare primrose family.
- chinese-pavilion — a shape resembling a segment of a ring tapering to points at the ends.
- chipped potatoes — chips
- chipping sparrow — a common North American sparrow, Spizella passerina, having brown-and-grey plumage and a white eye stripe
- cholecystography — radiography of the gall bladder after administration of a contrast medium
- chondrodysplasia — (medicine) A genetic disorder characterized by short-limbed dwarfism.
- chopped tomatoes — tomatoes cut into pieces
- chromatographies — Plural form of chromatography.
- chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
- commissionership — The role or office of commissioner.
- composite school — a secondary school offering both academic and nonacademic courses
- coping mechanism — something a person does to deal with a difficult situation
- copyright symbol — (character, legal) "©" The internationally recognised symbol required to introduce a copyright notice, a letter C with a circle around it. This can be encoded in ISO 8859-1 as character code decimal 169, hexadecimal A9, in HTML as ©, © or ©. A "c" in parentheses: "(c)" is sometimes used in documents stored in a coded character set such as ASCII that does not include the C in a circle, but this has no legal meaning.
- cottage hospital — a small rural hospital
- craftspersonship — The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
- crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
- crystallographic — of, relating to, or dealing with crystals or crystallography.
- cyclophosphamide — an alkylating agent used in the treatment of leukaemia and lymphomas
- cytotrophoblasts — Plural form of cytotrophoblast.
- dandruff shampoo — a preparation of soap or detergent used to wash the hair and which helps to control and reduce dandruff
- depending on sth — You use depending on when you are saying that something varies according to the circumstances mentioned.
- dephlogisticated — Simple past tense and past participle of dephlogisticate.
- depth psychology — the study of unconscious motives and attitudes
- devonshire split — a kind of yeast bun split open and served with whipped cream or butter and jam
- diphosphorylated — (biochemistry) phosphorylated with two units of phosphoric acid.
- diphthongisation — The process by which a single vowel sound (monophthong) shifts to a two-vowel vocalization (diphthong).
- discographically — In terms of discography.
- dneprodzerzhinsk — a city in the E central Ukraine, in the SW Russian Federation in Europe, on the Dnieper River.
- do sth in person — If you do something in person, you do it yourself rather than letting someone else do it for you.
- dolichocephalism — (medicine) The quality or condition of being dolichocephalic.
- drop a bombshell — If someone drops a bombshell, they give you a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
- echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
- electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
- electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
- epiphenomenalism — (philosophy, psychology, uncountable) The doctrine that mental states and processes are simply incidental effects of physiological events in the brain or nervous system and cannot themselves cause any effects in the material world.
- episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
- escutcheon plate — a plate or shield that surrounds a keyhole, door handle, light switch, etc, esp an ornamental one protecting a door or wall surface
- etiopathogenesis — (medicine) The cause and subsequent development of an abnormal condition or of a disease.
- false beechdrops — either of two parasitic or saprophytic plants of the genus Monotropa, especially the tawny or reddish M. hypopithys (false beechdrops) of eastern North America.
- ferrous sulphate — an iron salt with a saline taste, usually obtained as greenish crystals of the heptahydrate, which are converted to the white monohydrate above 100°C: used in inks, tanning, water purification, and in the treatment of anaemia. Formula: FeSO4
- figure of speech — any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope (def 1).
- finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
- first four ships — the earliest settlers' ships to arrive in the Canterbury Province
- flash photolysis — the study of photochemical reaction mechanisms in gases by analyzing spectroscopically the reaction products in a gas mixture irradiated with a powerful light flash.
- follicular phase — a stage of the menstrual cycle, from onset of menstruation to ovulation.
- francis joseph i — 1830–1916, emperor of Austria 1848–1916; king of Hungary 1867–1916.
- french polynesia — a French overseas territory in the S Pacific, including the Society Islands, Marquesas Islands, and other scattered island groups. 1544 sq. mi. (4000 sq. km). Capital: Papeete.
- furniture polish — product: shines wood
- gastroesophageal — Of or relating to the stomach and to the esophagus.
- gender dysphoria — a psychological condition marked by significant emotional distress and impairment in life functioning, caused by a lack of congruence between gender identity and biological sex assigned at birth.