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

  • 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.
  • philosophizer — to speculate or theorize, usually in a superficial or imprecise manner.
  • phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
  • 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.
  • phosphokinase — an increase in the amount of creatine phosphokinase that is released into the bloodstream when a muscle becomes injured
  • phospholipase — any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the breaking down of phospholipids.
  • photoemission — photoelectric effect.
  • photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
  • photophoresis — the move away from a strong light source by previously suspended particles in a gas
  • photopositive — pertaining to a substance whose conductivity increases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • physical file — (file system)   A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
  • physicalities — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
  • physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
  • physiognomies — the face or countenance, especially when considered as an index to the character: a fierce physiognomy.
  • physiotherapy — physical therapy.
  • physitheistic — of, relating to, or believing in physitheism
  • physostigmine — an alkaloid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease to raise the level of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and also as a miotic in glaucoma.
  • phytocoenosis — the plants of a given area considered as a whole.
  • pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • piece of shit — despicable person
  • pigheadedness — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
  • piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
  • pinch pennies — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • pleasant hill — a city in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
  • 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.
  • pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
  • pre-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
  • pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
  • pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
  • preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
  • preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
  • premonishment — a forewarning
  • presidentship — presidency.
  • pretendership — the standing of a pretender
  • 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.
  • pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
  • pseudesthesia — phantom limb pain.
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