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16-letter words containing s, p, h, a

  • discographically — In terms of discography.
  • 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.
  • dual citizenship — Also called dual nationality. the status of a person who is a legal citizen of two or more countries.
  • earthly paradise — Bible: Garden of Eden
  • easter sepulcher — sepulcher (def 2).
  • easter-sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • echocardiographs — Plural form of echocardiograph.
  • electromyographs — Plural form of electromyograph.
  • electrotherapist — One who administers electrotherapy.
  • english-speaking — speaking English as a mother tongue
  • 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
  • escape mechanism — way of avoiding reality
  • 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.
  • family physician — a general practitioner.
  • fat-tailed sheep — one of a class of sheep with much fat along the sides of the tail bones, raised for their meat and widely distributed in southeast Europe, northern Africa, and Asia.
  • 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
  • fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
  • flash in the pan — a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
  • 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.
  • freshwater pearl — any of the small pearls produced especially by freshwater mussels.
  • full speed ahead — train: at top speed
  • gadsden purchase — a tract of 45,535 sq. mi. (117,935 sq. km), now contained in New Mexico and Arizona, purchased for $10,000,000 from Mexico in 1853, the treaty being negotiated by James Gadsden.
  • 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.
  • general hospital — A general hospital is a hospital that does not specialize in the treatment of particular illnesses or patients.
  • glossopharyngeal — of or relating to the tongue and pharynx.
  • graphic designer — person: commercial artist
  • graphics adapter — graphics adaptor
  • graphics adaptor — (hardware, graphics)   (Or "graphics adapter", "graphics card", "video adaptor", etc.) A circuit board fitted to a computer, especially an IBM PC, containing the necessary video memory and other electronics to provide a bitmap display. Adaptors vary in the resolution (number of pixels) and number of colours they can display, and in the refresh rate they support. These parameters are also limited by the monitor to which the adaptor is connected. A number of such display standards, e.g. SVGA, have become common and different software requires or supports different sets.
  • grasp the nettle — If you grasp the nettle, you deal with a problem, or do something that is unpleasant, quickly and in a determined way.
  • gynandromorphism — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • gynandromorphous — an individual exhibiting morphological characteristics of both sexes.
  • hand screw clamp — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
  • happenstantially — (rare) By happenstance; occurring due to random chance.
  • hard-packed snow — snow which becomes very firmly packed as it becomes refrozen due to cold weather conditions rather than melting
  • harvard graphics — (graphics, tool)   A presentation graphics product by Software Publishing Corporation (SPC) for creating presentations, speeches, slides, etc..
  • hayes-compatible — (communications)   A description of a modem which understands the same set of commands as one made by Hayes.
  • head post office — the main post office in a town
  • headmistressship — (rare) Alternative form of headmistress-ship.
  • heads-up display — an electronic display of data from instruments or other sources projected at eye level so that a driver or pilot sees it without looking away from the road or course. Abbreviation: HUD.
  • health food shop — a shop which sells health foods
  • health inspector — a public employee who inspects places such as restaurants, shops, factories etc to make sure they are hygienic and do not pose any dangers to health
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