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13-letter words containing d, i, p, s, h

  • gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
  • graphics card — graphics adaptor
  • hardship fund — funding offered or applied for due to financial difficulties
  • hasty pudding — New England. cornmeal mush.
  • heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
  • 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.
  • high-spending — spending more than is necessary or appropriate
  • high-spirited — characterized by energetic enthusiasm, elation, vivacity, etc.
  • hip dysplasia — a genetic disorder, typically affecting young dogs of medium- to large-sized breeds, characterized by alteration and malformation of the hip joint.
  • histiophoroid — of or relating to the sailfish
  • hydrosulphide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
  • hydrosulphite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hyperadenosis — abnormal enlargement of the glands, especially of the lymph nodes.
  • hyperhidrosis — abnormally excessive sweating.
  • hyperlordosis — Particularly severe lordosis.
  • ichthyopsidan — a member of the class Ichthyopsida
  • in good shape — person: fit, healthy
  • indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
  • indian physic — American ipecac.
  • isodimorphism — isomorphism between the forms of two dimorphous substances.
  • judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
  • kidney-shaped — having the general shape of a long oval indented at one side; reniform: a kidney-shaped swimming pool.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • lipodystrophy — A disorder characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue.
  • lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
  • maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
  • medicine shop — (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines
  • misapprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapprehend.
  • miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
  • moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
  • ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
  • open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
  • paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
  • painted horse — paint (def 6).
  • paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
  • parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
  • phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
  • phillips head — a screw head having two partial slots crossed at right angles, driven by a special screwdriver (Phillips screwdriver)
  • philo judaeus — c20 b.c.–a.d. c50, Alexandrian Jewish theologian and philosopher.
  • phong shading — (graphics)   A model of how light is reflected from surfaces used extensively in three dimensional graphics to generate visually realistic images.
  • 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.
  • photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
  • physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
  • pigheadedness — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
  • piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
  • polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
  • posix threads — (programming)   (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
  • post-midnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
  • pound-foolish — not handling large sums of money wisely
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