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16-letter words containing s, p, h, e, r

  • chymotrypsinogen — the inactive precursor of chymotrypsin
  • commissionership — The role or office of commissioner.
  • craftspersonship — The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
  • creeping thistle — a weedy Eurasian thistle, Cirsium arvense, common as a fast-spreading weed in the US
  • crystallographer — A person skilled in crystallography.
  • depart this life — to die
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • drop a bombshell — If someone drops a bombshell, they give you a sudden piece of bad or unexpected news.
  • 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.
  • entrepreneurship — The art or science of innovation and risk-taking for profit in business.
  • episcopal church — an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland and the US
  • 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).
  • fingertip search — When the police carry out a fingertip search of a place, they examine it for evidence in a very detailed way.
  • finished product — the product that emerges at the end of a manufacturing process
  • 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.
  • furniture polish — product: shines wood
  • 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.
  • geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • gerontomorphosis — Biology. evolutionary specialization of a species to a degree that decreases its capability for further adaptation and eventually leads to its extinction.
  • glossopharyngeal — of or relating to the tongue and pharynx.
  • good housekeeper — a person who is an efficient and thrifty domestic manager
  • graphic designer — person: commercial artist
  • graphics adapter — graphics adaptor
  • 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.
  • gum up the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • hand screw clamp — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
  • hard-packed snow — snow which becomes very firmly packed as it becomes refrozen due to cold weather conditions rather than melting
  • headmistressship — (rare) Alternative form of headmistress-ship.
  • 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
  • heart transplant — surgery to replace a patient's heart
  • heat prostration — heat exhaustion.
  • heir presumptive — a person who is expected to be the heir but whose expectations may be canceled by the birth of a nearer heir.
  • hemotherapeutics — hemotherapy.
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