13-letter words containing a, s, h, p, i
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- leukapheresis — a medical procedure that separates certain leukocytes from the blood, used to collect leukocytes for donation or to remove excessive leukocytes from a patient's blood
- librarianship — a profession concerned with acquiring and organizing collections of books and related materials in libraries and servicing readers and others with these resources.
- life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
- lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
- lymphangiomas — Plural form of lymphangioma.
- lymphatolysis — destruction of lymphatic vessels or of lymphoid tissue.
- lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
- lymphomatosis — lymphoma spread throughout the body.
- 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.
- maple heights — a city in NE Ohio.
- mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.
- mastigophoric — Carrying or wielding a whip.
- matthew paris — Matthew, Matthew of Paris.
- merchant ship — law: commercial vessel
- mesaticephaly — the state or condition of being mesaticephalic or mesocephalic
- mesencephalic — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- mesocephalism — mesocephaly
- metamorphosis — Biology. a profound change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism, as from the caterpillar to the pupa and from the pupa to the adult butterfly. Compare complete metamorphosis.
- metaphysician — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
- metaphysicist — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
- metaphysicize — to think, write, etc, metaphysically
- microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
- micrographics — the technique of photographing written or printed pages in reduced form to produce microfilm or microfiche.
- misanthropist — a hater of humankind.
- misapprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapprehend.
- misshapenness — Quality of being misshapen.
- moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
- monotherapies — Plural form of monotherapy.
- multihospital — comprising or relating to several hospitals
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- mythographies — Plural form of mythography.
- 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.
- opisthography — the practice of writing on the front and back of a parchment or papyrus
- optic chiasma — a site at the base of the forebrain where the inner half of the fibers of the left and right optic nerves cross to the opposite side of the brain.