15-letter words containing p, i, s, c, e
- epistemological — Of or pertaining to epistemology or theory of knowledge, as a field of study.
- eric conspiracy — (person, humour) A shadowy group of moustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1986. This was doubtless influenced by the numerous "Eric" jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more moustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (of the "Allman style" described under indent style), Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP), Eric S. Raymond and about fifteen others. The organisation line "Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories" now emanates regularly from more than one site.
- escape velocity — great enough speed to escape gravity
- esprit de corps — military, sport: team spirit
- euphemistically — In a euphemistic manner.
- exceptionalness — The quality of being exceptional.
- excess capacity — unused production capacity
- existence proof — non-constructive proof
- expressionistic — Expressionist.
- facile princeps — an obvious leader
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- file descriptor — (programming, operating system) An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
- first principle — any axiom, law, or abstraction assumed and regarded as representing the highest possible degree of generalization.
- food processing — transforming raw materials into food
- forensic expert — an expert in applying scientific, technical or medical knowledge to the purposes of law
- fragrance strip — a folded, usually sealed strip on a page or card, impregnated with fragrance that is released when pulled or torn open: The magazine is full of fragrance strips in the advertisements.
- french-speaking — able to speak French
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- fusospirochetes — Plural form of fusospirochete.
- gender politics — debate about the roles and relations of men and women
- gender-specific — for, characteristic of, or limited to either males or females: Left-handedness is not gender-specific.
- geodemographics — the study and grouping of the people in a geographical area according to socioeconomic criteria, esp for market research
- geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
- gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
- group insurance — life, accident, or health insurance available to a group of persons, as the employees of a company, under a single contract, usually without regard to physical condition or age of the individuals.
- hair specialist — an expert in the treatment and care of human hair
- hardship clause — a clause in a contract which covers unforeseen events that would make it more difficult for one party to complete the contract, and in which case offers alternative terms
- have one's pick — If you have your pick of a group of things, you are able to choose any of them that you want.
- hospital corner — a fold on a bed sheet or blanket made by tucking the foot or head of the sheet straight under the mattress with the ends protruding and then making a diagonal fold at the side corner of the sheet and tucking this under to produce a triangular corner.
- house physician — a house officer working in a medical as opposed to a surgical discipline
- housing project — a publicly built and operated housing development, usually intended for low- or moderate-income tenants, senior citizens, etc.
- hydraulic press — a machine permitting a small force applied to a small piston to produce, through fluid pressure, a large force on a large piston.
- hyperactiveness — The state or quality of being hyperactive.
- hyperbolic sine — one of a group of functions of an angle expressed as a relationship between the distances of a point on a hyperbola to the origin and to the coordinate axes; sinh
- hypercatabolism — an abnormally high metabolic breakdown of a substance or tissue which leads to weight loss and physical deterioration
- hypergalactosis — an abnormally large secretion of milk.
- hypochondriases — Plural form of hypochondriasis.
- hypocrystalline — (of igneous rocks) having both glass and crystalline components
- hypoinsulinemic — Having hypoinsulinemia.
- if the cap fits — the allusion or criticism seems to be appropriate to a particular person
- impact adhesive — a glue designed to give adhesion when two coated surfaces are pressed together
- impecuniousness — The property of being impecunious.
- imperfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.
- imperscriptible — not supported by written authority
- implicativeness — the state or quality of being implicative
- implied consent — a manifestation of consent to something through conduct, including inaction or silence.
- imprescriptable — Alt form imprescriptible.
- imprescriptible — not subject to prescription.
- imprescriptibly — In an imprescriptible manner; obviously.
- impressionistic — a person who follows or adheres to the theories, methods, and practices of impressionism, especially in the fields of painting, music, or literature.