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13-letter words containing a, p, i, s, h, n

  • maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
  • mantis shrimp — any stomatopod crustacean having a pair of appendages modified for grasping prey and resembling those of a mantis.
  • mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.
  • merchant ship — law: commercial vessel
  • mesencephalic — Anatomy. the midbrain.
  • metaphysician — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
  • misanthropist — a hater of humankind.
  • misapprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapprehend.
  • misshapenness — Quality of being misshapen.
  • monotherapies — Plural form of monotherapy.
  • narcohypnosis — the use of drugs to induce hypnosis
  • necrophiliacs — Plural form of necrophiliac.
  • nephropathies — Plural form of nephropathy.
  • new hampshire — a state in the NE United States. 9304 sq. mi. (24,100 sq. km). Capital: Concord. Abbreviation: NH (for use with zip code), N.H.
  • noise shaping — (communications)   Spectral noise transformation in a quantisation processes. Noise is "colourised" in the time domain an/or frequency domain by adding parts of the previous sample. The SNR bandwidth and SNR time integral stay the same, so some noise decreases, some increases, but overall noise always increases. An example of noise shaping in the frequency domain is quantisation of samples on a Compact Disc to reduce noise below -98 dB. The are different algorithms with slightly different filters, e.g. Super Bitmapping, 4D Recording. A time domain example is MPEG-4 AAC TNS, which is a method to enhance quality by temporal forming of the noise in a transform block.
  • non-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
  • nonpunishable — Not punishable; of an act, for which no punishment has been authorized; of a person, beyond the reach of punishment.
  • nymphomaniacs — Plural form of nymphomaniac.
  • ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
  • on the parish — receiving parochial relief
  • one-upmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
  • onychophagist — the practice of biting one's nails, especially when done habitually and as a symptom of emotional disturbance.
  • open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
  • opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
  • outwash plain — Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • painted horse — paint (def 6).
  • panaesthetism — the belief that consciousness may be present in all matter
  • pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • parasynthesis — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
  • parasynthetic — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
  • parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • parthian shot — a sharp, telling remark, act, gesture, etc., made in departing.
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • phalansterian — of or relating to a phalanstery.
  • phalansterism — a model of society in which members of a community live in the same space and share common belongings
  • phantasmality — the condition or character of being incorporeal and illusory
  • phenomenalism — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • phong shading — (graphics)   A model of how light is reflected from surfaces used extensively in three dimensional graphics to generate visually realistic images.
  • phonocamptics — the branch of acoustics dealing with echoes
  • phony disease — a disease of peaches, characterized by dwarfing, dark-green leaves, premature leafing and flowering, and the production of reduced numbers of small fruit, caused by a virus, Nanus mirabilis.
  • phosphokinase — an increase in the amount of creatine phosphokinase that is released into the bloodstream when a muscle becomes injured
  • photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
  • photo-stating — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
  • photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
  • physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
  • physicianship — the position, function, or office of a physician.
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