13-letter words containing a, c, e, s, p
- epistemically — In a manner that pertains to knowledge.
- escape artist — escapologist
- escape clause — clause that releases sb from a contract
- escape device — a device with a collapsible extensible slide, used as an emergency exit, eg from a burning tall building
- escapologists — Plural form of escapologist.
- esophagoscope — An instrument for the inspection or treatment of the esophagus.
- euphausiacean — a member of the Euphausiacea order of small shrimplike crustaceans
- euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
- ex post facto — having retrospective effect
- express coach — a fast coach which goes from one place to another directly or with very few stops
- extra-special — particular; exceptional
- extracapsular — (anatomy) Situated outside a capsule, especially outside the capsular ligament of a joint.
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
- gap insurance — GAP insurance pays the difference between what someone owes on their car loan and the actual cash value of the vehicle in the event that it is stolen or damaged.
- gastrohepatic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and the liver.
- gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
- geophysically — In a geophysical manner; in terms of geophysics.
- grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
- greater scaup — any of several diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. marila (greater scaup) of the Northern Hemisphere, having a bluish-gray bill.
- gyrocompasses — Plural form of gyrocompass.
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- haber process — a process for synthesizing ammonia from gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst.
- hair clippers — device for trimming hair
- helispherical — spiral
- hemiparasitic — Semiparasitic.
- hemispherical — having the form of a hemisphere.
- hepatectomies — Plural form of hepatectomy.
- heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
- heterocarpous — (of a plant) producing more than one type of fruit
- heteroplastic — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
- hieracosphinx — (in ancient Egyptian art) a hawk-headed sphinx
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- hire purchase — buying sth by instalments
- hire-purchase — a system of payment for a commodity in regular installments while using it.
- hospital care — medical treatment provided in a hospital
- hospital case — a patient that is being, or needs to be, treated in a hospital
- hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hyperphysical — being above or beyond the physical; immaterial; supernatural.
- hypersarcosis — a fleshy outgrowth
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- hypervascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
- hypotheticals — Plural form of hypothetical.
- hypsometrical — Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- idealized csp — (language) A programming language combining simply typed, call-by-name procedures with asynchronous communicating processes, assuming fair parallel execution. Idealized CSP generalises Anthony Hoare's original CSP and Kahn's networks of deterministic processes, and is closely related to Parallel Algol by Stephen Brookes of CMU. Procedures permit the encapsulation of common protocols and parallel programming idioms. Local variables and local channel declarations provide a way to delimit the scope of interference between parallel agents, and allow a form of concurrent object-oriented programming.
- impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
- imperialistic — the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.
- in sb's place — If you say what you would have done in someone else's place, you say what you would have done if you had been in their situation and had been experiencing what they were experiencing.