13-letter words containing c, h, a, p, s
- petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
- phallic phase — the time from about age three to five when the genitals become the focus of a child's sensual pleasure.
- phantom stock — an employee bonus expressed as the cash value of a specified amount of company stock to be received at a future date, meant to create employee interest in raising stock prices without giving any stock away.
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- pharyngoscopy — an examination by means of a pharyngoscope.
- phase encoded — (storage) (PE) A recording method used for 1600 BPI magnetic tapes. Compare NRZI, GCR.
- phelloplastic — an image or a representation that has been fashioned from cork
- philosophical — of or relating to philosophy: philosophical studies.
- phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
- phonocamptics — the branch of acoustics dealing with echoes
- photoacoustic — optoacoustic
- photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
- photovoltaics — (used with a singular verb) a field of semiconductor technology involving the direct conversion of electromagnetic radiation as sunlight, into electricity.
- phyllocladous — having phylloclades.
- physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
- physical file — (file system) A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
- physicalistic — of or relating to physicalism.
- physicalities — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
- physicianship — the position, function, or office of a physician.
- physiographic — the science of physical geography.
- physiological — of or relating to physiology.
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- 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
- post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
- postholocaust — following a holocaust
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- 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.
- press attaché — the official in an embassy who has the job of liaising with the media
- press charges — make formal accusation
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- principalship — first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
- promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
- protest march — public demonstration
- 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
- psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyst — a person trained to practice psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- 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.
- psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
- psychographic — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- psychological — of or relating to psychology.