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15-letter words containing t, a, p, i, h

  • raster graphics — (graphics)   Computer graphics in which an image is composed of an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Opposite: vector graphics.
  • reservoir patch — A reservoir patch is an adhesive patch enclosing an amount of medicine. The patch is applied to the skin, and the medicine in it is delivered through a membrane into the skin and into the bloodstream.
  • saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
  • scratching post — a block or post of wood, usually covered with carpeting, on which a cat can use its claws.
  • serum hepatitis — hepatitis B.
  • sheffield plate — sheet copper with a cladding of silver.
  • ship's articles — a type of contract by which sailors agree to the conditions, payment, etc, for the ship in which they are going to work
  • ship's manifest — a list of the shipments or cargo that a vessel is carrying
  • shock probation — the release on probation of a criminal after brief imprisonment
  • shopping basket — a metal or plastic container with one or two handles, used to carry shopping in a shop
  • shrimp cocktail — prawns and lettuce in Mary Rose sauce
  • sodium sulphate — a solid white substance that occurs naturally as thenardite and is usually used as the white anhydrous compound (salt cake) or the white crystalline decahydrate (Glauber's salt) in making glass, detergents, and pulp. Formula: Na2SO4
  • somatic therapy — any of a group of treatments presumed to act on biological factors leading to mental illness.
  • sophisticatedly — (of a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc.) altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive: a sophisticated young socialite; the sophisticated eye of an experienced journalist.
  • southern paiute — See under Paiute (def 2).
  • spaghetti strap — a thin, often rounded strip of fabric used in women's clothing, as to form a shoulder strap on a bare-shouldered garment.
  • spanish bayonet — any of certain plants belonging to the genus Yucca, of the agave family, having narrow, spine-tipped leaves and a cluster of white flowers.
  • spanish customs — irregular practices among a group of workers to gain increased financial allowances, reduced working hours, etc
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • speaking as sth — You can say 'speaking as a parent' or 'speaking as a teacher', for example, to indicate that the opinion you are giving is based on your experience as a parent or as a teacher.
  • speaking of sth — You can say speaking of something that has just been mentioned as a way of introducing a new topic which has some connection with that thing.
  • spectrochemical — of, relating to, or utilizing the techniques of spectrochemistry.
  • speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
  • sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
  • spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
  • spill the beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
  • spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
  • spit and polish — great care in maintaining smart appearance and crisp efficiency: The commander was concerned more with spit and polish than with the company's morale.
  • 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.
  • stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
  • stigmatophilist — a person who has stigmatophilia
  • stirrup leather — the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.
  • stop at nothing — to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless
  • 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.
  • swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
  • sycophantically — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • sympathetic ink — a fluid for producing writing that is invisible until brought out by heat, chemicals, etc.; invisible ink.
  • sympathetically — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
  • sympathomimetic — mimicking stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
  • 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.
  • telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
  • teng hsiao-ping — Deng Xiaoping.
  • thalassographic — relating to thalassography
  • the colophonian — a native of Colophon.
  • the disappeared — people who have been arrested secretly or abuducted and presumably imprisoned or killed
  • the grim reaper — death
  • the handicapped — those who are physically disabled or mentally retarded
  • the paleolithic — the Paleolithic period, subdivided into the Lower (to c. 150,000 b.c.), Middle (to c. 38,000 b.c.), and Upper stages; Old Stone Age
  • the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
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