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13-letter words containing c, a, p, i, h

  • pitcher plant — any of various insectivorous New World bog plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, and Heliamphora, having tubular or trumpet-shaped leaves containing a liquid in which insects are trapped.
  • plagiocephaly — a deformity of the skull in which one side is more developed in the front, and the other side is more developed in the rear.
  • plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • platycephalic — having a head whose cranial vault is broad or flat.
  • poison sumach — an anacardiaceous swamp shrub, Rhus (or Toxicodendron) vernix of the southeastern US, that has greenish-white berries and causes an itching rash on contact with the skin
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
  • polycythaemia — an abnormal condition of the blood characterized by an increase in the number of red blood cells. It can occur as a primary disease of unknown cause (polycythaemia vera or erythraemia) or in association with respiratory or circulatory diseases
  • polytechnical — relating to a technical school
  • pontchartrain — Lake, a shallow extension of the Gulf of Mexico in SE Louisiana, N of New Orleans. 41 miles (66 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.
  • pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
  • pre-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
  • pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
  • preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
  • primary cache — (hardware, architecture)   (L1 cache, level one cache) A small, fast cache memory inside or close to the CPU chip. For example, an Intel 80486 has an eight-kilobyte on-chip cache, and most Pentiums have a 16-KB on-chip level one cache that consists of an 8-KB instruction cache and an 8-KB data cache. The larger, slower secondary cache is normally connected to the CPU via its external bus.
  • principalship — first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
  • privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
  • promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
  • prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
  • psychasthenia — Psychiatry. (no longer in technical use) a neurosis marked by fear, anxiety, phobias, etc.
  • psychasthenic — a person who has psychasthenia
  • psychodynamic — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
  • psychographic — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
  • psychological — of or relating to psychology.
  • psychosomatic — of or relating to a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.
  • psychotically — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
  • pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
  • puritan ethic — work ethic.
  • pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • quadraphonics — high-fidelity sound reproduction involving signals transmitted through four different channels.
  • quadriphonics — quadraphony.
  • ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
  • reprographics — reprography.
  • rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
  • richard petty — Richard, born 1937, U.S. racing-car driver.
  • saratoga chip — potato chip.
  • schiller park — a town in NE Illinois.
  • schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
  • school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
  • scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
  • scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
  • scratchpad ii — See Scratchpad I, AXIOM.
  • secretaryship — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
  • seneschalship — the office or position of a seneschal
  • shack-tapping — the making of house-by-house visits to canvass.
  • share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
  • sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
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