14-letter words containing s, p, h, r
- sporangiophore — a structure bearing sporangia.
- sporotrichosis — a widespread infectious disease marked by nodules or ulcers of the skin, chiefly affecting humans and domestic mammals and caused by the fungus Sporothrix schenckii.
- sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
- sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
- spotted orchid — any of various common Eurasian orchids, esp the heath and common spotted orchids (Dactylorhiza maculata and D. fuchsii). The flowers are variable but usually have dark blotches
- sprightfulness — the condition or quality of being sprightful
- spring chicken — a young chicken, especially a broiler or fryer.
- st. john perse — (pseud. of Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887-1975; Fr. diplomat & poet
- st.-john perse — (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- standard pitch — concert pitch
- steganographer — an expert in steganography
- steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
- stephen foster — Stephen (Collins) 1826–64, U.S. songwriter.
- straight poker — one of the original forms of poker in which players are dealt five cards face down, upon which they bet and then have the showdown without drawing any cards.
- stratigraphist — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
- streptothricin — an antibacterial substance produced by a soil fungus, Actinomyces lavendulae.
- strip lighting — Strip lighting is a method of lighting which uses long tubes rather than light bulbs.
- striped gopher — a ground squirrel marked with stripes, especially the thirteen-lined ground squirrel.
- subatmospheric — (of a quantity) having a value lower than that of the atmosphere: subatmospheric temperatures.
- subscribership — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- subtherapeutic — indicating a dosage, as of a drug or vitamin, less than the amount required for a therapeutic effect.
- sugar the pill — to make something unpleasant more agreeable by adding something pleasant
- sulphur spring — a natural hot spring containing sulphur, believed to have curative properties
- sulphur-bottom — blue whale.
- sulphur-flower — a plant, Eriogonum umbellatum, of the buckwheat family, native to the western coast of the U.S., having leaves with white, woolly hairs on the underside and golden-yellow flowers.
- sulphuric acid — Sulphuric acid is a colourless, oily, and very powerful acid.
- sun-worshipper — someone who worships the sun as a deity
- supercargoship — a giant cargo ship
- superphosphate — Also called acid phosphate. a mixture of calcium acid phosphate and calcium sulfate prepared by treating phosphate rock with sulfuric acid: used chiefly as a fertilizer.
- supply teacher — A supply teacher is a teacher whose job is to take the place of other teachers at different schools when they are unable to be there.
- swedish turnip — rutabaga.
- symmetrophobia — an avoidance of symmetry, esp in Japanese art and Egyptian temples
- synchronoscope — synchroscope.
- synoptic chart — a chart showing the distribution of meteorological conditions over a wide region at a given moment.
- thalassography — oceanography, especially that branch dealing with smaller bodies of water, as bays, sounds, and gulfs.
- the depression — the worldwide economic depression of the early 1930s, when there was mass unemployment
- the last trump — the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
- the space race — competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the superior power in outer space, in terms of exploration, manned space flights, and lunar landings; it is generally considered as beginning in 1957 and ending in the mid-1970s
- theriomorphism — the identification of animal characteristics with a supernatural being
- thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
- thermophyllous — relating to deciduous plants or trees that bear leaves only during the warmer times of the year
- third position — a position in which the feet overlap at the heels with the toes pointing out in opposite directions to the left and right.
- thromboplastic — causing or accelerating blood-clot formation.
- thromboplastin — Biochemistry. a lipoprotein in the blood that converts prothrombin to thrombin.
- thysanopterous — of or relating to the Thysanoptera genus of insects which are characterized by fringed wings
- to sleep rough — When people sleep or live rough, they sleep out of doors, usually because they have no home.
- to the purpose — relevant; pertinent
- tortilla chips — snack food: corn crisps
- trachyspermous — having seeds with a rough coat.
- trans-physical — of or relating to the body: physical exercise.