15-letter words containing t, h, y, s, a
- machinery steel — low-carbon steel that can be easily machined.
- masochistically — Psychiatry. having a condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, and humiliation.
- maundy thursday — the Thursday of Holy Week, commemorating Jesus' Last Supper and His washing of the disciples' feet upon that day.
- mechanistically — of or relating to the theory of mechanism or to mechanists.
- medical history — the past background of a person in terms of health
- merry christmas — well-wishes for Christmas season
- military school — military academy.
- monkey, scratch — scratch monkey
- moreton bay ash — an Australian eucalyptus tree, E. tessellaris, having drooping branches and grey bark
- morphosyntactic — involving both morphology and syntax.
- nasopharyngitis — (medicine) An inflammation of the nasal passages, and of the upper pharynx.
- natural history — the sciences, as botany, mineralogy, or zoology, dealing with the study of all objects in nature: used especially in reference to the beginnings of these sciences in former times.
- neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.
- nonpsychiatrist — a person who is not a psychiatrist
- nonpsychoactive — Not psychoactive.
- north bay shore — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
- northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
- orthopsychiatry — an approach to psychiatry concerned with the study and treatment of behavioral disorders, especially of young people.
- oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
- pachymeningitis — inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord
- parasympathetic — pertaining to that part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves and ganglia that arise from the cranial and sacral regions and function in opposition to the sympathetic system, as in inhibiting heartbeat or contracting the pupil of the eye.
- pathophysiology — the physiology of abnormal or diseased organisms or their parts; the functional changes associated with a disease or syndrome.
- pattypan squash — a flat, whitish variety of squash, Cucurbita pepo melopepo, having a scalloped edge.
- phosphorylation — to introduce the phosphoryl group into (an organic compound).
- phosphorylative — of or relating to phosphorylation
- photoelasticity — the phenomenon of double refraction of polarized light by a transparent substance under elastic stress, used to measure strain in elastic, transparent materials.
- physical optics — the branch of optics concerned with the wave properties of light, the superposition of waves, the deviation of light from its rectilinear propagation in a manner other than that considered by geometrical optics, the interaction of light with matter, and the quantum, corpuscular aspects of light.
- physicalization — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- physiopathology — pathophysiology.
- physiotherapist — physical therapy.
- platyhelminthes — a phylum of worms having bilateral symmetry and a soft, usually flattened body, comprising the flatworms.
- plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
- psychiatrically — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- psychoacoustics — the study of sound perception.
- psychogeriatric — the psychology of old age.
- psychohistorian — a person who writes psychohistory
- psychopathology — the science or study of mental disorders.
- psychotherapist — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- release therapy — psychotherapy in which the patient finds emotional release in the expression of hostilities and emotional conflicts.
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
- saccharomycetes — a collective name for yeasts
- sahitya akademi — a body set up by the Government of India for cultivating literature in Indian languages and in English
- saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- sarcenchymatous — relating to the connective tissue of some sponges
- scarlet lychnis — a plant, Lychnis chalcedonica, of the pink family, having scarlet or sometimes white flowers, the arrangement and shape of the petals resembling a Maltese cross.
- security thread — a colored thread running through the paper of a piece of paper money, used to deter counterfeiting.
- security threat — a threat to the security of a country
- set by the ears — to cause disagreement or commotion
- seven-year itch — scabies.