13-letter words containing l, a, i, p, s
- expostulation — (countable) The act of reasoning earnestly in order to dissuade or remonstrate.
- extra-special — particular; exceptional
- fairy-slipper — Calypso (def 2).
- false vampire — any large, carnivorous bat of the families Megadermatidae and Phyllostomatidae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, erroneously reputed to suck the blood of animals and humans.
- fashion plate — a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.
- feldspathoids — Plural form of feldspathoid.
- field spaniel — one of a British breed of spaniels having a flat or slightly waved, usually black coat, used for hunting and retrieving game.
- field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
- filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- florianopolis — a state in S Brazil. 36,856 sq. mi. (95,455 sq. km). Capital: Florianópolis.
- fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
- freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
- gas explosion — an explosion caused by a gas leak in the presence of an ignition source
- genital phase — the final stage of psychosexual development, in which a person achieves an affectionate, mature relationship with a sexual partner.
- geophysically — In a geophysical manner; in terms of geophysics.
- giant scallop — sea scallop.
- gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
- glass slipper — an imaginary ladies' shoe made of glass, as worn by Cinderella in the fairy tale of that name
- grease nipple — a metal nipple designed to engage with a grease gun for injecting grease into a bearing, etc
- grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
- hair clippers — device for trimming hair
- hairsplitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
- helispherical — spiral
- hematosalpinx — (medicine) A medical condition involving bleeding into the Fallopian tubes.
- hemispherical — having the form of a hemisphere.
- heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
- heptasyllabic — having seven syllables
- heteroplastic — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- hip dysplasia — a genetic disorder, typically affecting young dogs of medium- to large-sized breeds, characterized by alteration and malformation of the hip joint.
- hospitability — The quality of being hospitable.
- hospital bill — the bills incurred for receiving hospital treatment
- hospital care — medical treatment provided in a hospital
- hospital case — a patient that is being, or needs to be, treated in a hospital
- hospital pass — a pass made to a team-mate who will be tackled heavily as soon as the ball is received
- hospital ship — a ship built to serve as a hospital, especially used to treat the wounded in wartime and accorded safe passage by international law.
- hospitalizing — Present participle of hospitalize.
- hyper-realism — interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
- hyperphysical — being above or beyond the physical; immaterial; supernatural.
- hypersalinity — an excess of salt in a saline solution
- hypnoanalysis — a method of psychoanalysis in which a patient is put into hypnosis in an attempt to secure analytic data, free associations, and early emotional reactions.
- hyposexuality — A significantly low level of sexuality.
- hypotheticals — Plural form of hypothetical.
- hypsometrical — Of or pertaining to hypsometry.
- idealized csp — (language) A programming language combining simply typed, call-by-name procedures with asynchronous communicating processes, assuming fair parallel execution. Idealized CSP generalises Anthony Hoare's original CSP and Kahn's networks of deterministic processes, and is closely related to Parallel Algol by Stephen Brookes of CMU. Procedures permit the encapsulation of common protocols and parallel programming idioms. Local variables and local channel declarations provide a way to delimit the scope of interference between parallel agents, and allow a form of concurrent object-oriented programming.
- if you please — expressing mild outrage
- impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
- impartialness — The quality of being impartial.