14-letter words containing s, p, h, a, e, r
- overemphasized — Simple past tense and past participle of overemphasize.
- overemphasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overemphasize.
- ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
- pachydermatous — of, relating to, or characteristic of pachyderms.
- paddock-basher — a vehicle suited to driving on rough terrain
- paedomorphosis — the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines
- panther fungus — a highly poisonous mushroom, Amanita pantherina, with a brownish cap covered with white cottony patches.
- paper-shredder — a piece of machinery which shreds paper into fine strips, so as to destroy private documents, etc
- paper-shuffler — a person who has a routine desk job.
- para-synthesis — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
- paraphernalias — (sometimes used with a singular verb) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia.
- parenchymatous — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- parish records — historical documents of a district
- part of speech — any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
- paschal letter — (in the early Christian church) a letter, written by a patriarch, archbishop, or bishop to a cleric under his authority, announcing the date of the next Easter festival.
- paschen series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
- passenger ship — a ship carrying passengers
- personal chair — a professorship awarded in recognition of academic achievement
- petrochemicals — substances, such as acetone or ethanol, obtained from petroleum or natural gas
- phallocentrism — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phase-wrapping — (MIT) wrap around.
- phenosafranine — safranine (def 2).
- philosophaster — a person who has only a superficial knowledge of philosophy or who feigns a knowledge he or she does not possess.
- phosphate rock — phosphorite.
- 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.
- 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.
- pinking shears — shears that have notched blades, for cutting and simultaneously pinking fabric or for finishing garments with a notched, nonfraying edge.
- 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.
- platform shoes — shoes: thick sole
- plethysmograph — a device for measuring and recording changes in the volume of the body or of a body part or organ.
- pleurapophysis — one of the lateral processes of a vertebra forming the ribs
- pneumothoraces — the presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity.
- 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
- 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.
- postmastership — the office or position of a postmaster
- 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.
- pre-bachelor's — an unmarried man.
- preanaesthetic — a drug administered prior to an anaesthetic
- preestablished — to establish beforehand.
- pripet marshes — the largest swamp in Europe, occupying S Belarus and N Ukraine
- 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.
- pro-euthanasia — Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
- propeller wash — the backwash from a propeller.
- prosencephalon — the forebrain.
- prosthetically — a device, either external or implanted, that substitutes for or supplements a missing or defective part of the body.
- pruning shears — small, sturdy shears used for pruning shrubbery.
- pseudepigrapha — certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character.
- pseudepigraphy — the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
- pseudo-archaic — marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated: an archaic manner; an archaic notion.