I'm not sure, but I think the word being looked for is for the process rather than the recipients. It's in the Vocabula Forum and the asker is sure that there's a 'hip' root involved, whatever *that means, but I didn't want to mention that for fear of prejudicing the jury. I wish I had a dollar for every time I've known, e.g., "All I remember is it starts with an 'S' … Right! Carpathians!"

Edit: Double D'oh! It's not a 'hip' root, it's a 'lup' root. Cramped font, yeah, that's it. It was in a cramped font.