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14-letter words containing s, p, a, t, h, l

  • phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • pharmacologist — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • pharmacopolist — a person who sells pharmaceutical products
  • phase velocity — the velocity with which a simple harmonic wave is propagated, equal to the wavelength divided by the period of vibration.
  • philanthropist — a person who practices philanthropy.
  • philosophaster — a person who has only a superficial knowledge of philosophy or who feigns a knowledge he or she does not possess.
  • photocatalysis — the acceleration or retardation of the reaction rate in chemical reactions by light.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pink elephants — a facetious name applied to hallucinations caused by drunkenness
  • platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
  • platycephalous — flat-headed
  • plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
  • podophthalmous — relating to a crustacean
  • polygraph test — a test carried out using a polygraph, esp used by the police to try to find out whether somebody is telling the truth
  • 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.
  • pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.
  • psilanthropism — the doctrine that Jesus Christ was only a human being.
  • psilanthropist — a person who believes that Jesus was merely human
  • psychoanalytic — a systematic structure of theories concerning the relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes.
  • pyophthalmitis — suppurative inflammation of the eye.
  • sharptail mola — a fish, Masturus lanceolatus, related to the ocean sunfish but having a pointed tail.
  • sheepdog trial — a competition in which sheepdogs are tested in their tasks
  • shoo-fly plant — apple of Peru.
  • shortleaf pine — a pine, Pinus echinata, of the southern U.S., having short, flexible leaves.
  • shoulder patch — a cloth emblem worn on the upper part of a sleeve of a uniform typically as identification of the organization to which the wearer is assigned.
  • shoulder strap — a strap worn over the shoulder, as to support a garment.
  • simple-hearted — free of deceit; artless; sincere.
  • sistine chapel — the chapel of the pope in the Vatican at Rome, built for Pope Sixtus IV and decorated with frescoes by Michelangelo and others.
  • social chapter — The social chapter is an agreement between countries in the European Union concerning workers' rights and working conditions.
  • south portland — a city in SW Maine.
  • south st. paul — a city in SE Minnesota.
  • spanish omelet — an omelet served with a sauce of tomatoes, onions, and green peppers.
  • sphaerocrystal — a spherical crystalline mass
  • staphylococcus — any of several spherical bacteria of the genus Staphylococcus, occurring in pairs, tetrads, and irregular clusters, certain species of which, as S. aureus, can be pathogenic for humans.
  • staphyloplasty — plastic surgery or surgical repair involving the soft palate or the uvula
  • steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • stegocephalian — an extinct, pre-Jurassic amphibian
  • stegocephalous — having the characteristics of the order Stegocephala
  • stigmatophilia — a love for body piercing or tattooing that is accompanied by sexual arousal
  • 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
  • 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.
  • sycophantishly — in a sycophantish manner
  • thalassography — oceanography, especially that branch dealing with smaller bodies of water, as bays, sounds, and gulfs.
  • the apple isle — Tasmania
  • the black caps — the international cricket team of New Zealand
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