15-letter words containing t, e, r, a, p, h
- sphaerosiderite — a type of siderite
- spheroidization — the conversion of grains into spheroids
- spirochaetaemia — the presence of spirochaetes in the blood
- 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
- 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
- substratosphere — the upper troposphere.
- 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.
- telegraph plant — a tick trefoil, Desmodium motorium, of the legume family, native to tropical Asia, noted for the spontaneous, jerking, signallike motions of its leaflets.
- telegraphically — of or relating to the telegraph.
- telephotography — photography of distant objects, using a telephoto lens.
- thalassographer — a person who studies the sea; an oceanographer
- 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 grim reaper — death
- the last supper — the supper of Jesus and His disciples on the eve of His Crucifixion. Compare Lord's Supper (def 1).
- the other place — (at Oxford University) Cambridge University
- the paralympics — a sporting event, modelled on the Olympic Games, held solely for disabled competitors
- the perigordian — the Perigordian culture
- the phanerozoic — the Phanerozoic era
- the precambrian — the Precambrian era
- the present day — The present day is the period of history that we are in now.
- the upper karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
- the upper ranks — the higher divisions of the armed forces
- theatre company — an organization that produces theatrical performances
- therapeutically — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
- thermal printer — a printer that produces output by selectively heating a heat-sensitive paper (thermal paper) in patterns corresponding to the characters to be produced.
- thermobarograph — a device that simultaneously records the temperature and pressure of the atmosphere
- thermogeography — the study of the geographical variation and distribution of temperature.
- thought pattern — habitual way of thinking
- tiglath-pileser — died 727 b.c, king of Assyria 745–727.
- trainspotterish — obsessed with trivial details, esp of a subject generally considered uninteresting
- trans-euphrates — a river in SW Asia, flowing from E Turkey through Syria and Iraq, joining the Tigris to form the Shatt-al-Arab near the Persian Gulf. 1700 miles (2735 km) long.
- truth-value gap — the possibility in certain semantic systems of a statement being neither true nor false while also not being determinately of any third truth-value, as all my children are asleep uttered by a childless person
- uncopyrightable — not able to be copyrighted
- weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
- west hartlepool — a former borough, now part of Hartlepool, in Cleveland County, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tees.
- whip-tailed ray — a whipray.
- white supremacy — the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial groups, especially black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society.