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

  • misapprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapprehend.
  • miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
  • moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
  • open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
  • paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
  • painted horse — paint (def 6).
  • paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
  • parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
  • phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
  • phillips head — a screw head having two partial slots crossed at right angles, driven by a special screwdriver (Phillips screwdriver)
  • philo judaeus — c20 b.c.–a.d. c50, Alexandrian Jewish theologian and philosopher.
  • phony disease — a disease of peaches, characterized by dwarfing, dark-green leaves, premature leafing and flowering, and the production of reduced numbers of small fruit, caused by a virus, Nanus mirabilis.
  • physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
  • pigheadedness — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
  • piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
  • polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
  • posix threads — (programming)   (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
  • presidentship — presidency.
  • pretendership — the standing of a pretender
  • pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
  • pseudesthesia — phantom limb pain.
  • pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • pussy-whipped — (of a woman) to dominate or control (a romantic partner); henpeck.
  • sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
  • shepherd king — any of the Hyksos kings.
  • ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
  • ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
  • sophisticated — sophisticated.
  • spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
  • speech island — a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.
  • speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
  • sphenoid bone — the large butterfly-shaped compound bone at the base of the skull, containing a protective depression for the pituitary gland
  • spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
  • spider orchid — any of several European orchids of the genus Ophrys, esp O. sphegodes, having a flower with yellow, green, or pink sepals and a broad brown velvety lip
  • spindleshanks — spindlelegs.
  • striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
  • strophiolated — having strophioles, caruncles
  • subeditorship — the position or office of a subeditor
  • swivel-hipped — characterized by an exaggeratedly swinging or extremely free motion of the hips.
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • the palisades — line of steep cliffs in NE N.J. & SE N.Y. on the west shore of the Hudson: c. 15 mi (24 km) long
  • underemphasis — inadequate emphasis.
  • unreplenished — not replenished or refilled
  • well-polished — made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
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