13-letter words containing i, p, h, a, n
- kinesitherapy — a movement-based therapy
- kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- launching pad — the platform on which a missile or launch vehicle undergoes final prelaunch checkout and countdown and from which it is launched from the surface of the earth.
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- librarianship — a profession concerned with acquiring and organizing collections of books and related materials in libraries and servicing readers and others with these resources.
- lithographing — Present participle of lithograph.
- lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
- lymphangiomas — Plural form of lymphangioma.
- machilipatnam — a city in E Andhra Pradesh state, in S India, on the Bay of Bengal: first British trading settlement 1611.
- maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
- mantis shrimp — any stomatopod crustacean having a pair of appendages modified for grasping prey and resembling those of a mantis.
- mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.
- merchant ship — law: commercial vessel
- mesencephalic — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- metanephridia — Plural form of metanephridium.
- metaphysician — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
- metenkephalin — either of two pentapeptides that bind to morphine receptors in the central nervous system and have opioid properties of relatively short duration; one pentapeptide (Met enkephalin) has the amino acid sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met and the other (Leu enkephalin) has the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu.
- mimeographing — Present participle of mimeograph.
- mineral pitch — asphalt.
- misanthropist — a hater of humankind.
- misapprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapprehend.
- misshapenness — Quality of being misshapen.
- monotherapies — Plural form of monotherapy.
- morphinomania — an addiction to morphine or opium in which the addict secretly injects the substance
- naphthylamine — (organic compound) Either of two isomeric primary amines derived from naphthalene; they occur in crude oil, and are used in the preparation of dyes and other compounds.
- narcohypnosis — the use of drugs to induce hypnosis
- necrophiliacs — Plural form of necrophiliac.
- nephrological — of or relating to nephrology
- nephropathies — Plural form of nephropathy.
- new hampshire — a state in the NE United States. 9304 sq. mi. (24,100 sq. km). Capital: Concord. Abbreviation: NH (for use with zip code), N.H.
- noise shaping — (communications) Spectral noise transformation in a quantisation processes. Noise is "colourised" in the time domain an/or frequency domain by adding parts of the previous sample. The SNR bandwidth and SNR time integral stay the same, so some noise decreases, some increases, but overall noise always increases. An example of noise shaping in the frequency domain is quantisation of samples on a Compact Disc to reduce noise below -98 dB. The are different algorithms with slightly different filters, e.g. Super Bitmapping, 4D Recording. A time domain example is MPEG-4 AAC TNS, which is a method to enhance quality by temporal forming of the noise in a transform block.
- non-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
- nonalphabetic — not employing alphabetic order
- nonpathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
- nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
- nonpunishable — Not punishable; of an act, for which no punishment has been authorized; of a person, beyond the reach of punishment.
- normocephalic — Having a normal sized head; neither macrocephalic nor microcephalic; mesocephalic.
- nymphomaniacs — Plural form of nymphomaniac.
- oceanographic — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
- ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
- on a par with — If you say that two people or things are on a par with each other, you mean that they are equally good or bad, or equally important.
- on the parish — receiving parochial relief
- one-upmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
- onychophagist — the practice of biting one's nails, especially when done habitually and as a symptom of emotional disturbance.
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
- oprahfication — the perceived increase in people’s desire to discuss their emotions or personal problems, attributed to the influence of confessional television programmes
- optical bench — an apparatus, as a special table or rigid beam, for the precise positioning of light sources, screens, and optical instruments used for optical and photometric studies, having a ruled bar to which these devices can be attached and along which they can be readily adjusted.
- ornithophobia — Fear of birds.