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

  • barristership — the office of a barrister
  • base hospital — a hospital serving a large rural area
  • bibliophagist — a person who devours books
  • biopsychology — a field of psychology that deals with the effects of biological factors on behavior.
  • biphasic pill — a drug with two dosage levels over the period taken, as an oral contraceptive.
  • birth parents — a child's biological parents, regardless of whether they subsequently bring up the child
  • bishop sleeve — a full sleeve gathered at the wrist
  • bishop violet — a reddish purple.
  • bishop's ring — a reddish-brown corona occasionally seen around the sun, caused by volcanic dust in the atmosphere.
  • bishop's weed — goutweed.
  • bishop's-weed — goutweed.
  • bits per inch — (unit)   (BPI) A measure of the recording density of a magnetic tape or disk.
  • body shopping — the purchasing of manpower from another country, usually one where wages are cheap
  • brinksmanship — the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, especially by creating diplomatic crises.
  • broca-aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Broca's area of the brain, characterized by misarticulated speech and lack of grammatical morphemes.
  • buffalo chips — the dried dung of buffalo used as fuel, especially by early settlers on the western plains.
  • calligraphist — fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
  • candidateship — candidature
  • cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • cash receipts — the money a business receives from its customers over a specified period
  • catastrophise — Alt form catastrophize.
  • catastrophism — an old doctrine, now discarded, that the earth was created and has subsequently been shaped by sudden divine acts which have no logical connection with each other rather than by gradual evolutionary processes
  • catastrophist — the doctrine that certain vast geological changes in the earth's history were caused by catastrophes rather than gradual evolutionary processes.
  • catastrophize — (obsolete) To end a comedy.
  • cephalosporin — any of a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics obtained from fungi of the genus Cephalosporium
  • chairmanships — Plural form of chairmanship.
  • championships — Plural form of championship.
  • chaperoneship — State or position of chaperone.
  • chapman stick — an electronically amplified musical instrument with ten or twelve strings and a fretted neck, which is played by striking the strings against the frets with the fingers
  • 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.
  • child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
  • chilkoot pass — a mountain pass in North America between SE Alaska and NW British Columbia, over the Coast Range
  • chimney sweep — A chimney sweep is a person whose job is to clean the soot out of chimneys.
  • chimneypieces — Plural form of chimneypiece.
  • chirographist — a person who studies or who is knowledgeable about handwriting styles
  • chiropractics — The practice of a chiropractor.
  • chiropractors — Plural form of chiropractor.
  • chloroplastic — a plastid containing chlorophyll.
  • 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
  • churchmanship — The craft or skill of being a churchman. (from 17th c.).
  • cloud physics — the science of the physical properties and processes of clouds.
  • co-authorship — the state a coauthor
  • coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
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