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15-letter words containing s, p, h, r, a

  • grasshopper pie — a custardlike pie, flavored and colored with green crème de menthe and served in a graham-cracker crust.
  • group therapist — a psychotherapist who conducts group therapy
  • hair specialist — an expert in the treatment and care of human hair
  • hair transplant — the surgical transfer of clumps of skin with hair or of viable hair follicles from one site of the body to another, usually performed to correct baldness.
  • hardhead sponge — any of several commercial sponges, as Spongia officinalis dura, of the West Indies and Central America, having a harsh, fibrous, resilient skeleton.
  • hardship clause — a clause in a contract which covers unforeseen events that would make it more difficult for one party to complete the contract, and in which case offers alternative terms
  • hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
  • hautes-pyrenees — a department in SW France. 1751 sq. mi. (4535 sq. km). Capital: Tarbes.
  • hermaphroditism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
  • herpes labialis — oral herpes.
  • hip measurement — a measurement around the hips at the level of the buttocks used in clothing and assessing general health
  • historiographer — a historian, especially one appointed to write an official history of a group, period, or institution.
  • historiographic — the body of literature dealing with historical matters; histories collectively.
  • hopper casement — a casement with a sash hinged at the bottom.
  • hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
  • hospital doctor — a hospital doctor works in a hospital, rather than as a general practitioner, in the army, etc
  • house of prayer — house of God.
  • hundred's place — hundred (def 8).
  • hydraulic press — a machine permitting a small force applied to a small piston to produce, through fluid pressure, a large force on a large piston.
  • hygroscopically — In a hygroscopic way.
  • hyperactiveness — The state or quality of being hyperactive.
  • hyperadrenalism — a glandular disorder caused by the overactivity of the adrenal glands and often resulting in obesity
  • hyperaggressive — characterized by or tending toward unprovoked offensives, attacks, invasions, or the like; militantly forward or menacing: aggressive acts against a neighboring country.
  • hyperanakinesia — abnormally active mechanical movement, especially of the stomach or intestine.
  • hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
  • hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
  • hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
  • hypermetabolism — Biology, Physiology. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Compare anabolism, catabolism.
  • hyperovarianism — precocious sexuality in girls due to abnormally heavy ovarian secretion.
  • hyperparasitism — an organism that is parasitic on or in another parasite.
  • hyperpotassemia — hyperkalemia.
  • hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
  • hypersexualised — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualise.
  • hypersexualized — Simple past tense and past participle of hypersexualize.
  • hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
  • hypochondriasis — Also, hypochondriasis [hahy-poh-kuh n-drahy-uh-sis] /ˌhaɪ poʊ kənˈdraɪ ə sɪs/ (Show IPA). Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.
  • hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
  • hypopituitarism — abnormally diminished activity of the pituitary gland, especially of the anterior lobe.
  • imperial bushel — a unit of dry measure containing 4 pecks, equivalent in the U.S. (and formerly in England) to 2150.42 cubic inches or 35.24 liters (Winchester bushel) and in Great Britain to 2219.36 cubic inches or 36.38 liters (Imperial bushel) Abbreviation: bu., bush.
  • imperishability — not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring.
  • inapprehensible — That cannot be apprehended; not apprehensible to or graspable by either body or mind.
  • ionospherically — by the ionosphere
  • joseph jacquard — Joseph Marie [zhoh-zef ma-ree] /ʒoʊˈzɛf ma ri/ (Show IPA), 1752–1834, French inventor.
  • knife-sharpener — a kitchen implement that is used to sharpen knives
  • latter prophets — a subdivision of the books constituting the second main part of the Hebrew Bible, comprising those books which in Christian tradition are alone called the Prophets and which are divided into Major Prophets and Minor Prophets
  • learn the ropes — become familiar with sth
  • mechanomorphism — the doctrine that the universe is fully explicable in mechanistic terms.
  • membership pack — a collection of documents, information leaflets, cards, etc, that is given to members, especially new ones
  • metamorphosised — Simple past tense and past participle of metamorphosise.
  • metamorphosizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of metamorphosize.
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