15-letter words containing pa
- for their pains — You say that something was all you got for your pains when you are mentioning the disappointing result of situation into which you put a lot of work or effort.
- free soil party — a former U.S. political party (1848–56) that opposed the extension of slavery in the Territories not yet admitted to statehood.
- front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
- funeral parlour — A funeral parlour is a place where a funeral director works and where dead people are prepared for burial or cremation.
- general paresis — a syphilitic brain disorder characterized by chronic inflammation and degeneration of cerebral tissue resulting in mental and physical deterioration.
- general partner — a partner with unlimited liability for the debts of the partnership.
- globus pallidus — anatomy: part of the brain
- golgi apparatus — an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell.
- golgi-apparatus — an organelle, consisting of layers of flattened sacs, that takes up and processes secretory and synthetic products from the endoplasmic reticulum and then either releases the finished products into various parts of the cell cytoplasm or secretes them to the outside of the cell.
- grand old party — G.O.P.
- grandparenthood — The state of being a grandparent.
- greenback party — a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
- greenfield park — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- grey propaganda — propaganda that does not identify its source
- group separator — (character) (GS) ASCII character 29.
- hapax legomenon — a word or phrase that appears only once in a manuscript, document, or particular area of literature.
- haulage company — a firm that transports goods by lorry
- hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
- have (down) pat — to know or have memorized thoroughly
- height-to-paper — the standard height of type, measured from the foot to the face, in the U.S. 0.918 of an inch (2.33 cm).
- hepaticological — of or relating to hepaticology
- hepatocarcinoma — (pathology) cancer of the liver.
- herod agrippa i — 10 bc–44 ad, king of Judaea (41–44), grandson of Herod (the Great). A friend of Caligula and Claudius, he imprisoned Saint Peter and executed Saint James
- hewlett-packard — (HP) Hewlett-Packard designs, manufactures and services electronic products and systems for measurement, computation and communications. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately 110 countries. HP was founded in 1939 and employs 96600 people, 58900 in the USA. They have manufacturing and R&D establishments in 54 cities in 16 countries and approximately 600 sales and service offices in 110 countries. Their revenue (in 1992/1993?) was $20.3 billion. The Chief Executive Officer is Lewis E. Platt. HP's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Pacific, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris exchanges. Quarterly sales $6053M, profits $347M (Aug 1994).
- histopathologic — the science dealing with the histological structure of abnormal or diseased tissue; pathological histology.
- holding company — a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
- holding paddock — a paddock in which cattle or sheep are kept temporarily, as before shearing, etc
- holding pattern — a traffic pattern for aircraft at a specified location (holding point) where they are ordered to remain until permitted to land or proceed.
- homeopathically — By means of homeopathy.
- hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- huntington park — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- hydropathically — in a hydropathic manner; in a manner relating to hydropathy
- hydroxylapatite — Alternative spelling of hydroxyapatite.
- hyperparasitism — an organism that is parasitic on or in another parasite.
- identity papers — law: legal documents
- identity parade — law: police lineup
- immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
- impact adhesive — a glue designed to give adhesion when two coated surfaces are pressed together
- in pari delicto — in equal fault; equally culpable or blameworthy.
- in the ballpark — a tract of land where ball games, especially baseball, are played.
- incapaciousness — the quality of not having (sufficiently) great capacity
- incomparability — beyond comparison; matchless or unequaled: incomparable beauty.
- incompatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are incompatible, that one necessarily precludes the other.
- incompatibility — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
- industrial park — an industrial complex, typically in a suburban or rural area and set in parklike surroundings with such facilities as parking lots, restaurants, and recreation areas.
- inescapableness — The quality of being inescapable.
- infeasible path — dead code
- inseparableness — The quality or state of being inseparable.
- inter-parochial — of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.