15-letter words containing s, p, h, a
- splanchnopleure — the double layer formed by the association of the lower layer of the lateral plate of mesoderm with the underlying entoderm, which develops into the embryonic viscera.
- sporting chance — an even or fair opportunity for a favorable outcome in an enterprise, as winning in a game of chance or in any kind of contest: They gave the less experienced players a sporting chance by handicapping the experts.
- spread the word — make others aware
- staphylorrhaphy — repair of a cleft palate by means of staphyloplasty and suturing
- step on the gas — accelerate, drive faster
- stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
- stigmatophilist — a person who has stigmatophilia
- stirrup leather — the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.
- stop at nothing — to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- stretcher party — a group of stretcher bearers and the stretchers they are carrying
- substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
- sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
- sulphurous acid — an unstable acid produced when sulphur dioxide dissolves in water: used as a preservative for food and a bleaching agent. Formula: H2SO3
- sumatra camphor — borneol.
- swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
- sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
- sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- sympathetectomy — sympathectomy.
- sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
- sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- sympathy strike — a strike by a body of workers, not because of grievances against their own employer, but by way of endorsing and aiding another group of workers who are on strike or have been locked out.
- teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
- thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
- thalassographic — relating to thalassography
- thalassotherapy — the use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
- the black stump — an imaginary marker of the extent of civilization (esp in the phrase beyond the black stump)
- the disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
- the jos plateau — a plateau in Nigeria with an average altitude of 1280 metres
- the last supper — the supper of Jesus and His disciples on the eve of His Crucifixion. Compare Lord's Supper (def 1).
- the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
- the peach state — a nickname for Georgia, a state in southeastern United States
- the present day — The present day is the period of history that we are in now.
- the upper ranks — the higher divisions of the armed forces
- thomas à kempis — Thomas à, 1379?–1471, German ecclesiastic and author.
- tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
- trainspotterish — obsessed with trivial details, esp of a subject generally considered uninteresting
- trans-euphrates — a river in SW Asia, flowing from E Turkey through Syria and Iraq, joining the Tigris to form the Shatt-al-Arab near the Persian Gulf. 1700 miles (2735 km) long.
- u-shaped valley — a steep-sided valley caused by glacial erosion
- ultrasonography — a diagnostic imaging technique utilizing reflected high-frequency sound waves to delineate, measure, or examine internal body structures or organs.
- unapprehensible — not able to be understood or comprehended
- unphilosophical — not adhering to philosophical theory or principles
- unsophisticated — not sophisticated; simple; artless.
- vanishing point — a point of disappearance, cessation, or extinction: His patience had reached the vanishing point.
- vanishing spray — a substance that disperses without trace shortly after it is sprayed onto a surface, used in football to mark a temporary line behind which defenders must stand when a free kick is taken
- vegetable sheep — any of various species of the genus Raoulia, esp R. mammillaris or R. eximia, of New Zealand rocky mountains: a small low bush having white flowers and hairy leaves which, from a distance, make it look like a sheep
- vindhya pradesh — a former state in central India: now part of Madhya Pradesh.
- walpurgis night — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.