13-letter words containing p, a, i, s
- camping stool — a stool which is suitable for use in temporary quarters, on holiday, etc, esp by being portable and easy to set up
- 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 gains — Capital gains are the profits that you make when you buy something and then sell it again at a higher price.
- capital goods — Capital goods are used to make other products. Compare consumer goods.
- capital lease — A capital lease is a lease which is treated as the purchase of the asset that is being leased.
- capital stock — the par value of the total share capital that a company is authorized to issue
- capitulations — Plural form of capitulation.
- caprivi strip — narrow strip of land, c. 50 mi (80 km) wide, of NE Namibia, extending eastward to the Zambezi River: c. 300 mi (483 km) long
- capsaicinoids — Plural form of capsaicinoid.
- capsulization — The act or process of capsulizing.
- captain's bed — a bed consisting of a shallow box with drawers in the side and a mattress on top.
- carbolic soap — a disinfectant soap containing phenol
- cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
- cartoon strip — A cartoon strip is a series of drawings that tells a story.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
- chilkoot pass — a mountain pass in North America between SE Alaska and NW British Columbia, over the Coast Range
- 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
- churchmanship — The craft or skill of being a churchman. (from 17th c.).
- circumspatial — Of or pertaining to the surrounding space.