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

  • spanish morocco — French Maroc. Spanish Marruecos. a kingdom in NW Africa: formed from a sultanate that was divided into two protectorates (French Morocco and Spanish Morocco) and an international zone. 172,104 sq. mi. (445,749 sq. km). Capital: Rabat. Compare Tangier Zone.
  • spanish paprika — a cultivated pepper, Capsicum annuum, grown originally in Spain.
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • specific charge — the ratio of the charge on a particle to the mass of the particle.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • speech disorder — an inability to produce normal speech
  • speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
  • sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
  • spherical angle — an angle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.
  • spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
  • spinach-rhubarb — an Ethiopian plant, Rumex abyssinicus, of the buckwheat family, having leaves that are sometimes used as spinach and leafstalks sometimes used as rhubarb.
  • spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
  • 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
  • st. christopher — Saint, died a.d. c250, Christian martyr.
  • staphylorrhaphy — repair of a cleft palate by means of staphyloplasty and suturing
  • stirrup leather — the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.
  • 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
  • studhorse poker — stud poker.
  • substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
  • sully-prudhomme — René François Armand [ruh-ney frahn-swa ar-mahn] /rəˈneɪ frɑ̃ˈswa arˈmɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1839–1907, French poet: Nobel prize 1901.
  • sulphinpyrazone — a uricosuric drug with molecular formula C23H20N2O3S, used in the treatment of chronic gout
  • sulphur dioxide — a colourless soluble pungent gas produced by burning sulphur. It is both an oxidizing and a reducing agent and is used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, the preservation of a wide range of foodstuffs (E220), bleaching, and disinfecting. Formula: SO2
  • sulphur springs — a town in NE Texas.
  • 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.
  • superheterodyne — denoting, pertaining to, or using a method of processing received radio or video signals in which an incoming modulated wave is changed by the heterodyne process into a lower-frequency wave and then subjected to amplification and subsequent detection.
  • superphenomenon — a phenomenon that is beyond the typical qualities of phenomena
  • sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
  • 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.
  • symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
  • 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 disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
  • 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 present day — The present day is the period of history that we are in now.
  • the proprieties — the standards of behaviour considered correct by polite society
  • the upper ranks — the higher divisions of the armed forces
  • theory of types — a theory advanced by Bertrand Russell to avoid the liar paradox, Russell's paradox, etc, in which a class of expressions or of the entities they represent can all enter into the same syntactic relations
  • theriomorphosis — transformation into an animal form, often associated with mythological characters
  • thermoperiodism — the effect on an organism of rhythmic fluctuations in temperature.
  • thought process — thinking, train of thought
  • threshold price — the highest price a retailer is allowed to sell a particular good at
  • tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
  • trainspotterish — obsessed with trivial details, esp of a subject generally considered uninteresting
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