13-letter words that end in p
- containership — a ship specially designed or equipped for carrying containerized cargo
- control group — any group used as a control in a statistical experiment, esp a group of patients who receive either a placebo or a standard drug during an investigation of the effects of another drug on other patients
- copartnership — a partnership or association between two equals, esp in a business enterprise
- cosponsorship — joint sponsorship
- cottage tulip — a late-flowering type of tulip, usually having pointed or elongated flowers.
- counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
- craftsmanship — Craftsmanship is the skill that someone uses when they make beautiful things with their hands.
- custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
- daylight lamp — a lamp whose light has a range of wavelengths similar to that of natural sunlight
- devil worship — the worship of Satan or of a demon
- dip-and-scarp — (of topography) characterized by alternating steeper scarp slopes and gentler dip slopes
- disfellowship — (in some Protestant religions) the status of a member who, because of some serious infraction of church policy, has been denied the church's sacraments and any post of responsibility and is officially shunned by other members.
- draftsmanship — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, as of machines, structures, etc.
- drag and drop — A common method for manipulating files (and sometimes text) under a graphical user interface or WIMP environment. The user moves the pointer over an icon representing a file and presses a mouse button. He holds the button down while moving the pointer (dragging the file) to another place, usually a directory viewer or an icon for some application program, and then releases the button (dropping the file). The meaning of this action can often be modified by holding certain keys on the keyboard at the same time. Some systems also use this technique for objects other than files, e.g. portions of text in a word processor. The biggest problem with drag and drop is does it mean "copy" or "move"? The answer to this question is not intuitively evident, and there is no consensus for which is the right answer. The same vendor even makes it move in some cases and copy in others. Not being sure whether an operation is copy or move will cause you to check very often, perhaps every time if you need to be certain. Mistakes can be costly. People make mistakes all the time with drag and drop. Human computer interaction studies show a higher failure rate for such operations, but also a higher "forgiveness rate" (users think "silly me") than failures with commands (users think "stupid machine"). Overall, drag and drop took some 40 times longer to do than single-key commands.
- drilling ship — a ship provided with drilling equipment and used especially for carrying out test drills
- entrance ramp — a short road connecting a motorway, etc, to another road
- european wasp — a large black-and-yellow banded wasp, Vespula germanica, native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia, now established in Australasia and the US
- feature creep — creeping featurism
- feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
- financing gap — the difference between a country's requirements for foreign exchange to finance its debts and imports and its income from overseas
- four-way stop — an intersection of two roads with four stop signs, one facing in each direction
- freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
- furring strip — a strip of wood or metal fixed to a wall, floor, or ceiling to provide a surface for the fixing of plasterboard, floorboards, etc
- gartner group — (company) One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA.
- giant scallop — sea scallop.
- give a leg up — to help to mount
- give the slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
- grantsmanship — skill in securing grants, as for research, from federal agencies, foundations, or the like.
- greater scaup — any of several diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. marila (greater scaup) of the Northern Hemisphere, having a bluish-gray bill.
- hardware shop — a shop that sells metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
- homeownership — a person who owns a home.
- hospital ship — a ship built to serve as a hospital, especially used to treat the wounded in wartime and accorded safe passage by international law.
- housewifeship — the role of a housewife, household management
- idealized csp — (language) A programming language combining simply typed, call-by-name procedures with asynchronous communicating processes, assuming fair parallel execution. Idealized CSP generalises Anthony Hoare's original CSP and Kahn's networks of deterministic processes, and is closely related to Parallel Algol by Stephen Brookes of CMU. Procedures permit the encapsulation of common protocols and parallel programming idioms. Local variables and local channel declarations provide a way to delimit the scope of interference between parallel agents, and allow a form of concurrent object-oriented programming.
- inclusion map — a map of a set to itself in which each element of a given subset of the set is mapped to itself.
- indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
- indian turnip — the jack-in-the-pulpit.
- indirect jump — (programming) A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.
- infinite loop — (programming) (Or "endless loop") Where a piece of program is executed repeatedly with no hope of stopping. This is nearly always because of a bug, e.g. if the condition for exiting the loop is wrong, though it may be intentional if the program is controlling an embedded system which is supposed to run continuously until it is turned off. The programmer may also intend the program to run until interrupted by the user. An endless loop may also be used as a last-resort error handler when no other action is appropriate. This is used in some operating system kernels following a panic. A program executing an infinite loop is said to spin or buzz forever and goes catatonic. The program is "wound around the axle". A standard joke has been made about each generation's exemplar of the ultra-fast machine: "The Cray-3 is so fast it can execute an infinite loop in under 2 seconds!" See also black hole, recursion, infinite loop.
- inspectorship — The condition of being an inspector; the office of an inspector.
- isoamyl group — the univalent group C 5 H 11 .
- john winthrop — John, 1588–1649, English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1629–33, 1637–40, 1642–44, 1646–49.
- kerosene lamp — light fuelled by paraffin
- landing strip — airstrip.
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- lauroyl group — the monovalent organic group C 12 H 23 O–, derived from lauric acid.
- librarianship — a profession concerned with acquiring and organizing collections of books and related materials in libraries and servicing readers and others with these resources.
- life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
- linkage group — a group of genes in a chromosome that tends to be inherited as a unit.