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26-letter words containing t, h, r, i, p

  • postprandial thermogenesis — the rate at which food is broken down after a meal and used by your body
  • primary sex characteristic — any of the body structures directly concerned in reproduction, as the testes, ovaries, and external genitalia.
  • prince henry the navigatorPrince, 1394–1460, prince of Portugal.
  • privately held corporation — A privately held corporation is a company whose shares cannot be bought by the general public.
  • put one's signature to sth — If you put your signature to a document, you sign it as a way of officially showing that you agree with what is written.
  • put sb out of their misery — If you put someone out of their misery, you tell them something that they are very anxious to know.
  • quite apart from something — used to indicate that you are aware of one aspect of a situation, but that you are going to focus on another aspect
  • remembrance of things past — a novel (1913–27) by Marcel Proust.
  • search engine optimization — the process of adjusting the content, structure, etc, of a website so that it will be displayed prominently by a search engine
  • senior chief petty officer — a noncommissioned officer ranking above a chief petty officer and below a master chief petty officer. Abbreviation: SCPO.
  • slip through one's fingers — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
  • ssh file transfer protocol — (networking)   (SFTP) A version of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) using an encrypted network connection provided by Secure Shell (SSH), usually SSH 2. The SFTP protocol allows for a range of operations on remote files, making it more like a remote file system protocol. SFTP clients can resume interrupted transfers, get directory listings and remove remote files. SFTP has largely replaced Secure Copy (SCP).
  • straight-line depreciation — Straight-line depreciation is a method of depreciation in which an equal amount of depreciation is taken each year.
  • take priority/has priority — If something takes priority or has priority over other things, it is regarded as being more important than them and is dealt with first.
  • temperature-humidity index — a number representing an estimate of the effect of temperature and moisture on humans, computed by multiplying the sum of dry-bulb and wet-bulb temperature readings by 0.4 and adding 15, with 65 assumed as the highest comfortable index. Abbreviation: T.H.I.
  • the liberal democrat party — a political party in Britain which was formed from a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party
  • the single european market — the free trade policy that operates between members of the European Union
  • thematic apperception test — a projective technique in which stories told by a subject about each of a series of pictures are assumed to reveal dominant needs or motivations. Abbreviation: TAT.
  • three-dimensional printing — the creation of solid objects by building up multiple layers, each layer corresponding to a plan held in a digital file
  • to be in raptures over sth — be highly delighted with
  • to do portrait photography — to be a portrait photographer
  • to pour scorn on something — If you pour scorn on someone or something or heap scorn on them, you say that you think they are stupid and worthless.
  • triple combination therapy — treatment with three different drugs
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