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13-letter words that end in p

  • loop the loop — plane: fly upside down
  • loop-the-loop — an airplane maneuver in which a plane, starting upward, makes one complete vertical loop.
  • malonyl group — the bivalent group C 3 H 2 O 2 , derived from malonic acid.
  • mantis shrimp — any stomatopod crustacean having a pair of appendages modified for grasping prey and resembling those of a mantis.
  • measuring cup — a graduated cup used especially in cooking for measuring ingredients.
  • medicine shop — (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines
  • melbourne cup — an annual horse race run in Melbourne, since 1861
  • merchant ship — law: commercial vessel
  • metallic soap — any usually water-insoluble salt formed by the interaction of a fatty acid and a metal, especially lead or aluminum: used chiefly as a drier in paints and varnishes and for waterproofing textiles.
  • metering pump — A metering pump is a device used to pump precise amounts of liquids over a period of time.
  • methoxy group — the univalent group CH 3 O−.
  • military coup — a coup organized and carried out by members of the armed forces
  • mindanao deep — an area in the Pacific Ocean W of the Philippines: one of deepest points in any ocean. 34,440 feet (10,497 meters).
  • mission creep — the tendency for a task, esp a military operation, to become unintentionally wider in scope than its initial objectives
  • moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
  • moebius strip — Möbius strip
  • mother's help — a woman employed to help look after children and help the mother in other ways
  • moustache cup — mustache cup.
  • multiple shop — chain store.
  • mussel shrimp — any of numerous tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans of the subclass Ostracoda, having a shrimplike body enclosed in a hinged bivalve shell.
  • mutation stop — an organ pipe sounding the harmonic of the note normally produced
  • nailing strip — a strip of wood or other partly yielding material attached to a hard surface, as of steel or concrete, so that objects may be nailed to the surface.
  • neck and crop — completely; entirely
  • nitroso group — the univalent group O=N–.
  • nominal group — A nominal group is the same as a noun group.
  • nonmembership — the fact or condition of being a nonmember
  • nonunion shop — a shop or business in which the employer fixes terms and conditions of employment unilaterally without recognizing or dealing with a union.
  • not much chop — not much good; poor
  • ombudsmanship — The position or office of an ombudsman.
  • one-stop shop — an establishment where many different services or products are available
  • one-upmanship — the art or practice of achieving, demonstrating, or assuming superiority in one's rivalry with a friend or opponent by obtaining privilege, status, status symbols, etc.: the one-upmanship of getting into the president's car pool.
  • over the hump — a rounded protuberance, especially a fleshy protuberance on the back, as that due to abnormal curvature of the spine in humans, or that normally present in certain animals, as the camel or bison.
  • palm-oil chop — a W African dish made with meat and palm oil
  • paraffin lamp — a lamp which is fuelled by paraffin
  • parasoft corp — Distributors of the message passing system Express.
  • parking strip — Chiefly Upper Midwest and Western U.S. parkway (def 2).
  • parting strip — a strip, as of wood, used to keep two parts separated, as one in each side of the frame of a window to keep the sashes apart when lowered or raised.
  • physicianship — the position, function, or office of a physician.
  • pistol shrimp — any common shrimp of the family Alphaeidae, distinguished by the snapping sound made by its enlarged claw.
  • plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
  • play catch up — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
  • play catch-up — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
  • pleasure trip — holiday, vacation
  • plural eulisp — EuLisp with parallel extensions. "Collections and Garbage Collection", S.C. Merall et al, in Memory Management - IWMM92, Springer 1992, pp.473-489.
  • possessorship — to have as belonging to one; have as property; own: to possess a house and a car.
  • postage stamp — small adhesive label for mail
  • postage-stamp — of very small area or size: a postage-stamp bikini.
  • preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
  • presidentship — presidency.
  • pretendership — the standing of a pretender
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