13-letter words containing a, s, e, p, i
- gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
- gram-positive — (of bacteria) retaining the violet dye when stained by Gram's method.
- grease nipple — a metal nipple designed to engage with a grease gun for injecting grease into a bearing, etc
- 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.
- hagiographers — Plural form of hagiographer.
- hagiographies — Plural form of hagiography.
- hair clippers — device for trimming hair
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- helispherical — spiral
- hematopoiesis — the formation of blood.
- hematosalpinx — (medicine) A medical condition involving bleeding into the Fallopian tubes.
- hemiparasitic — Semiparasitic.
- hemispherical — having the form of a hemisphere.
- hepatectomies — Plural form of hepatectomy.
- heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
- heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
- heresiography — a treatise on heresy.
- hermaphrodism — the condition of being a hermaphrodite.
- herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
- 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
- house painter — a person whose occupation is painting houses.
- housepainters — Plural form of housepainter.
- hyper-realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- hyperadenosis — abnormal enlargement of the glands, especially of the lymph nodes.
- hypercautious — Especially or unreasonably cautious.
- hyperesthesia — an abnormally acute sense of pain, heat, cold, or touch; algesia.
- hyperparasite — an organism that is parasitic on or in another parasite.
- hyperphysical — being above or beyond the physical; immaterial; supernatural.
- hyperprosexia — a condition in which the whole attention is occupied by one object or idea to the exclusion of others
- hypersalinity — an excess of salt in a saline solution
- hypersarcosis — a fleshy outgrowth
- hyperurbanism — a pronunciation or grammatical form or usage produced by a speaker of one dialect according to an analogical rule formed by comparison of the speaker's own usage with that of another, more prestigious, dialect and often applied in an inappropriate context, especially in an effort to avoid sounding countrified, rural, or provincial, as in the pronunciation of the word two (to̅o̅) as (tyo̅o̅).
- hyposexuality — A significantly low level of sexuality.
- 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.
- if you please — expressing mild outrage
- impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
- impartialness — The quality of being impartial.
- impassiveness — The state of being impassive.
- impatientness — not patient; not accepting delay, opposition, pain, etc., with calm or patience.
- 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.
- imperseverant — lacking the power to perceive