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13-letter words containing e, s, p, i

  • bypass engine — a gas turbine in which a part of the compressor delivery bypasses the combustion zone, flowing directly into or around the main exhaust gas flow to provide additional thrust
  • caesaropapism — the theory that the state should have authority over the church in ecclesiastical matters; Erastianism
  • camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
  • campus police — police officers, security guards or students employed by a college or university to patrol the campus and to protect students, staff, and visitors
  • candidateship — candidature
  • candy striper — a volunteer worker in a hospital
  • candy-striped — (esp of clothing fabric) having narrow coloured stripes on a white background
  • candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
  • capaciousness — capable of holding much; spacious or roomy: a capacious storage bin.
  • cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
  • capellmeister — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp in an 18th-century princely household
  • capital asset — fixed asset.
  • capital lease — A capital lease is a lease which is treated as the purchase of the asset that is being leased.
  • captain's bed — a bed consisting of a shallow box with drawers in the side and a mattress on top.
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • case in point — a specific, appropriate, or relevant instance or example
  • case soap iii — Version of SOAP assembly language for IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
  • cash receipts — the money a business receives from its customers over a specified period
  • cat distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • catastrophise — Alt form catastrophize.
  • catastrophize — (obsolete) To end a comedy.
  • celiac plexus — solar plexus (def 1).
  • central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • cephalosporin — any of a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics obtained from fungi of the genus Cephalosporium
  • cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
  • chaperoneship — State or position of chaperone.
  • chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
  • chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
  • child process — (operating system)   A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) as a copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlay itself with a different program (using exec) as required.
  • chimney sweep — A chimney sweep is a person whose job is to clean the soot out of chimneys.
  • chimneypieces — Plural form of chimneypiece.
  • chorepiscopal — (in early Christianity) relating to or connected with a local bishop
  • choripetalous — polypetalous
  • chromospheric — Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.
  • chrysophenine — a bright yellow dye derived from stilbene, used chiefly for dyeing leather and textiles.
  • 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.
  • co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
  • cochairperson — a person who cochairs an organization
  • code position — (character)   An integer that a coded character set maps to a character. A code position is normally stored or transmitted by applying a character encoding to turn it into a byte string.
  • colleagueship — workplace companionship
  • collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
  • colonoscopies — Plural form of colonoscopy.
  • come to grips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
  • commandership — a person who commands.
  • committeeship — (formerly) the office of a person to whom the care of a mentally incompetent person or his or her property was entrusted by a court
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