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13-letter words containing s, t, r, i, p

  • business trip — a journey made somewhere and back again for business purposes in one's working capacity
  • calligraphist — fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
  • candy striper — a volunteer worker in a hospital
  • candy-striped — (esp of clothing fabric) having narrow coloured stripes on a white background
  • candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
  • capellmeister — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp in an 18th-century princely household
  • caprivi strip — narrow strip of land, c. 50 mi (80 km) wide, of NE Namibia, extending eastward to the Zambezi River: c. 300 mi (483 km) long
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • cartoon strip — A cartoon strip is a series of drawings that tells a story.
  • cash receipts — the money a business receives from its customers over a specified period
  • cat distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • catastrophise — Alt form catastrophize.
  • catastrophism — an old doctrine, now discarded, that the earth was created and has subsequently been shaped by sudden divine acts which have no logical connection with each other rather than by gradual evolutionary processes
  • 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.
  • central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • choripetalous — polypetalous
  • chrysophilite — a person who loves gold
  • circumspatial — Of or pertaining to the surrounding space.
  • circumspectly — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
  • clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
  • 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
  • coadjutorship — the state of being a coadjutor
  • coconspirator — a fellow conspirator
  • collectorship — The rank or office of a collector of customs or other taxes.
  • come to grips — to engage in hand-to-hand fighting
  • comparativist — a comparatist
  • compatriotism — a native or inhabitant of one's own country; fellow countryman or countrywoman.
  • computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
  • computerising — Present participle of computerise.
  • conductorship — The position of conductor of an orchestra.
  • conscriptions — Plural form of conscription.
  • conspiracists — Plural form of conspiracist.
  • conspiratress — a woman who conspires
  • conspurcation — the act of defiling
  • constupration — the act of raping or violating
  • containership — a ship specially designed or equipped for carrying containerized cargo
  • contemporised — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
  • contrapuntist — a composer skilled in counterpoint
  • copartnership — a partnership or association between two equals, esp in a business enterprise
  • cornish pasty — A Cornish pasty is a small pie with meat and vegetables inside.
  • corporativism — corporatism
  • corporisation — The forming into one body; embodiment.
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