13-letter words containing e, l, i, p, s
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- chrysophilite — a person who loves gold
- circumspectly — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- closing price — On the stock exchange, the closing price of a share is its price at the end of a day's business.
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
- colonoscopies — Plural form of colonoscopy.
- companionless — Without a companion; friendless, alone.
- compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
- complacencies — a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.
- completionist — (in a video game) a player who attempts to complete every challenge and earn every achievement or trophy: I’m not really a completionist, so I skipped the side missions and focused on the main story quests.
- compressional — relating to compression
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
- concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
- consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
- contemplatist — a contemplator
- councilperson — a member of a city or local legislative council.
- counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
- culpabilities — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- decapitalised — to deprive of capital; discourage capital formation; withdraw capital from: The government decapitalized industry with harsh tax policies.
- dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
- depersonalise — Alternative spelling of depersonalize.
- depersonalize — To depersonalize a system or a situation means to treat it as if it did not really involve people, or to treat it as if the people involved were not really important.
- depoliticised — Simple past tense and past participle of depoliticise.
- depoliticizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of depoliticize.
- descriptively — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- despicability — Despicableness.
- devil worship — the worship of Satan or of a demon
- dialypetalous — (of flowers) having distinct petals
- diencephalons — Plural form of diencephalon.
- dip one's lid — to raise one's hat as a greeting, etc
- dipleidoscope — an instrument that uses a telescope and a hollow prism to see when the sun crosses the meridian
- disapparelled — undressed; naked
- disciplinable — subject to or meriting disciplinary action: a disciplinable breach of rules.
- disemployment — to put out of work; cause to become unemployed.
- disfellowship — (in some Protestant religions) the status of a member who, because of some serious infraction of church policy, has been denied the church's sacraments and any post of responsibility and is officially shunned by other members.
- disgospelling — depriving of access to the gospel
- displacements — Plural form of displacement.
- display panel — an electronic screen on which information can be displayed
- dispositively — in a dispositive manner
- disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
- dry ski slope — A dry ski slope is a slope made of an artificial substance on which you can practise skiing.
- dyslipidaemia — Alternative spelling of dyslipidemia.
- ear-splitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.