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

  • preference share — a share of preferred stock.
  • presence chamber — the special room in which a great personage, as a sovereign, receives guests, holds audiences, etc.
  • presumptive heir — heir presumptive.
  • price leadership — the setting of the price of a product or service by a dominant firm at a level that competitors can match, in order to avoid a price war
  • primary syphilis — the first stage of syphilis, characterized by the formation of a chancre at the site of infection.
  • prince's feather — a tall, showy plant, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, of the amaranth family, having reddish foliage and thick spikes of small, red flowers.
  • prince's-feather — a tall, showy plant, Amaranthus hybridus erythrostachys, of the amaranth family, having reddish foliage and thick spikes of small, red flowers.
  • prison psychosis — a state of mental confusion, transitory or permanent, brought on by incarceration or by the anticipation of imprisonment.
  • process theology — a form of theology that emphasizes the close relation of human beings, nature, and God.
  • processed cheese — a mass-produced product made of one or more types of cheeses that have been heated and mixed with emulsifiers, colorings, flavorings, etc., primarily to retard spoilage and enhance spreadability at reduced cost.
  • prognostic chart — a chart showing the predicted state of the atmosphere for a given time in the future.
  • prometheus bound — a tragedy (c457 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • prospect heights — a town in N Illinois.
  • prosthetic group — the nonprotein acid constituent of a conjugate protein, as the heme group of hemoglobin.
  • protestant ethic — work ethic.
  • pseudohistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
  • pseudoparenchyma — (in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue, made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
  • psychogeriatrics — the psychology of old age.
  • public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
  • pull the strings — be in control
  • purchase request — A purchase request is a document detailing required items, the number required and when they will be required. Once approved it becomes a purchase order.
  • purchasing agent — a person who buys materials, supplies, equipment, etc., for a company.
  • purchasing power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • pusher propeller — a propeller located on the trailing edge of an aircraft wing.
  • put sb/sth first — If you put someone or something first, you treat or consider them as more important than anything else.
  • put to the sword — to kill with a sword or swords
  • rainbow seaperch — an embiotocid fish, Hypsurus caryi, living off the Pacific coast of North America, having red, orange, and blue stripes on the body.
  • reap the harvest — If you reap the harvest, you benefit or suffer from the results of your past actions or of someone else's past actions.
  • rhinopharyngitis — inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose and pharynx.
  • rising diphthong — a diphthong in which the first of two apparent vocalic elements is of lesser stress or sonority than the second, as the (wä) in guava [gwah-vuh] /ˈgwɑ və/ (Show IPA).
  • rochelle powders — (not in technical use) Seidlitz powders.
  • run a tight ship — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
  • saint-john perse — (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
  • savannah sparrow — a North American sparrow, Passerculus sandwichensis, having brown and white plumage with a yellow stripe over each eye.
  • schaumburg-lippe — a former state in NW Germany.
  • schneider trophy — a trophy for air racing between seaplanes of any nation, first presented by Jacques Schneider (1879–1928) in 1913; won outright by Britain in 1931
  • school inspector — an official whose job is to inspect schools and to report on their quality and conditions
  • scrovegni chapel — Arena Chapel.
  • secondary phloem — phloem derived from the cambium during secondary growth.
  • selenomorphology — the study of the lunar surface and landscape
  • shaft horsepower — the horsepower delivered to the driving shaft of an engine, as measured by a torsion meter. Abbreviation: shp, SHP.
  • shag pile carpet — a large piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor
  • share repurchase — A share repurchase is a situation in which a company buys back its own shares.
  • shared ownership — (in Britain) a form of house purchase whereby the purchaser buys a proportion of the dwelling, usually from a local authority or housing association, and rents the rest
  • sharia-compliant — (of a product or service) produced or offered in accordance with the doctrines of the sharia
  • shark repellents — any tactic used by a corporation to prevent a takeover by a corporate raider.
  • sharpe's grysbok — either of two small, usually solitary antelopes of southern Africa, Raphicerus melanotis, or R. sharpei (Sharpe's grysbok) having a light to dark reddish-brown coat speckled with white.
  • shepherd's check — a pattern of even checks, used in a variety of fabrics.
  • shepherd's crook — hooked or curved stick
  • shepherd's plaid — a checkered black and white pattern
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