13-letter words containing p, o, e, s, h, i
- pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- piece of shit — despicable person
- piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
- polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
- polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
- porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- 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).
- possessorship — to have as belonging to one; have as property; own: to possess a house and a car.
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
- premonishment — a forewarning
- primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
- professorship — the office or post of a professor.
- prosectorship — the position or responsibility of a prosector
- protectorship — a person or thing that protects; defender; guardian.
- pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- psychogenesis — genesis of the psyche.
- psychogenetic — genesis of the psyche.
- psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
- psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
- psychomimetic — psychotomimetic.
- psychotogenic — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
- psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
- recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
- rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
- reprographics — reprography.
- reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
- rosehip syrup — a syrup made from rosehips, used as a cough remedy
- schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
- schizophrenic — Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
- self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- sheep station — a large sheep farm
- ship of state — a nation or its affairs likened to a ship under sail.
- ship's stores — a retail store aboard a navy ship that sells toiletries, cigarettes, etc., to the ship's personnel.
- ship-to-shore — operating between a ship and the shore: a ship-to-shore radio.
- shirley poppy — a cultivated strain of the corn poppy, having variously colored single or double flowers.
- shoe repairer — a person who mends shoes
- silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver
- siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
- sophisticated — sophisticated.
- souvenir shop — a shop that sells trivial gift items, such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, keyrings etc, esp aimed at tourists
- spectatorship — the state of being a spectator
- sphenoid bone — the large butterfly-shaped compound bone at the base of the skull, containing a protective depression for the pituitary gland
- spheristerion — an area designated for ballplay
- spherocytosis — the condition of having spherocytes
- spheroidicity — a spheroidal state or form.
- sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.