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13-letter words containing s, p, i, c

  • 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
  • chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
  • chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
  • child process — (operating system)   A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) as a copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlay itself with a different program (using exec) as required.
  • child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
  • chilkoot pass — a mountain pass in North America between SE Alaska and NW British Columbia, over the Coast Range
  • chimney sweep — A chimney sweep is a person whose job is to clean the soot out of chimneys.
  • chimneypieces — Plural form of chimneypiece.
  • 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
  • chromospheric — Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.
  • chrysophenine — a bright yellow dye derived from stilbene, used chiefly for dyeing leather and textiles.
  • chrysophilite — a person who loves gold
  • churchmanship — The craft or skill of being a churchman. (from 17th c.).
  • circumspatial — Of or pertaining to the surrounding space.
  • circumspectly — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
  • cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
  • clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • closing price — On the stock exchange, the closing price of a share is its price at the end of a day's business.
  • cloud physics — the science of the physical properties and processes of clouds.
  • cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
  • co-authorship — the state a coauthor
  • co-presidency — the state or act of being co-president
  • coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
  • coastal plain — a plain extending along a coast.
  • cochairperson — a person who cochairs an organization
  • coconspirator — a fellow conspirator
  • code position — (character)   An integer that a coded character set maps to a character. A code position is normally stored or transmitted by applying a character encoding to turn it into a byte string.
  • colleagueship — workplace companionship
  • collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
  • colonoscopies — Plural form of colonoscopy.
  • colposcopical — of or relating to the colposcope
  • come to grips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
  • commandership — a person who commands.
  • committeeship — (formerly) the office of a person to whom the care of a mentally incompetent person or his or her property was entrusted by a court
  • companies act — (in Britain) any of various laws that govern the formation, dissolution, and management of companies
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