15-letter words containing t, o, l, h
- photoxylography — the process of using photography in order to produce an image on wood, for the use of a wood engraver
- 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.
- phytochemically — in a phytochemical manner
- phytoflagellate — any microscopic flagellate that is photosynthetic.
- plain chocolate — dark eating chocolate
- plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
- plant pathology — the branch of botany dealing with diseases of plants.
- play havoc with — bring chaos to
- plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
- plymouth colony — the colony established in SE Massachusetts by the Pilgrims in 1620.
- poikilothermism — the state or quality of being cold-blooded, as fishes and reptiles.
- polish notation — a logical notation that dispenses with the need for brackets by writing the logical constants as operators preceding their arguments
- polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
- polyphemus moth — a large, yellowish-brown American silkworm moth, Antheraea polyphemus, having a prominent eyespot on each hind wing and feeding on cherry, apple, and other trees.
- posthole digger — a tool or device for digging a posthole.
- potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
- propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
- provost marshal — Army. an officer on the staff of a commander, charged with the maintaining of order and with other police functions within a command.
- psychobiologist — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- psychopathology — the science or study of mental disorders.
- public footpath — a footpath along which the public has right of way
- pulchritudinous — physically beautiful; comely.
- pulmobranchiate — possessing a pulmobranch
- pyrotechnically — in a pyrotechnical manner
- quasihistorical — of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.
- radio telephone — A radio telephone is a telephone which carries sound by sending radio signals rather than by using wires. Radio telephones are often used in cars.
- radio-telephone — a telephone in which sound or speech is transmitted by means of radio waves instead of through wires or cables.
- radiotechnology — the technical application of any form of radiation to industry.
- radiotelegraphy — the constructing or operating of radiotelegraphs.
- relative to sth — Relative to something means with reference to it or in comparison with it.
- religious right — US right-wing Christian movement
- rhyming couplet — a pair of lines in poetry that rhyme and usually have the same rhythm
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
- rochester hills — city in SE Mich., near Detroit: pop. 69,000
- rocket launcher — a tube attached to a weapon for the launching of rockets.
- roll in the hay — a document of paper, parchment, or the like, that is or may be rolled up, as for storing; scroll.
- rolle's theorem — the theorem that a differentiable function having equal values at the endpoints of an interval has a derivative equal to zero at some point in the interval.
- rolling kitchen — a mobile kitchen used for feeding troops outdoors.
- round-the-clock — around-the-clock.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
- run of the mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
- run-of-the-mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
- saint-john-lake — Henry, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, Bolingbroke, 1st Viscount.
- saprophytically — any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria.
- schillerization — the process of altering crystals to produce schiller
- schola cantorum — an ecclesiastical choir or choir school.
- school district — A school district is an area which includes all the schools that are situated within that area and are governed by a particular authority.