13-letter words containing a, c, e, s, p, o
- object pascal — (language) An object-oriented Pascal developed jointly by Apple Computer and Niklaus Wirth.
- ocean springs — a town in SE Mississippi.
- olympic games — international sports event
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- opthalmoscope — Misspelling of ophthalmoscope.
- optical mouse — (hardware) Any kind of mouse that uses visible light or infrared to detect changes in its position.
- orchesography — a written study of dancing
- orchestra pit — musicians' seating in front of stage
- orchestra-pit — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
- overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- pact of steel — a military alliance concluded between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on May 22, 1939, committing each to assist the other in the event of war with another power and pledging that neither would seek a separate peace or armistice.
- palaeocrystic — consisting of former glacial formation
- paleo-asiatic — a member of any of various Mongoloid peoples of northeastern Asia.
- papaveraceous — belonging to the Papaveraceae, the poppy family of plants.
- paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
- passe compose — a grammatical construction of French consisting of the present tense of an auxiliary, either avoir or être, followed by a past participle and corresponding in function to both the English present perfect and the English simple past tenses.
- passive voice — grammar: verb form takes when subject acted upon
- pastoral care — help with personal needs and problems given by a teacher
- peace process — A peace process consists of all the meetings, agreements, and negotiations in which people such as politicians are involved when they are trying to arrange peace between countries or groups that are fighting with each other.
- peach blossom — the flower of the peach tree: the state flower of Delaware.
- penobscot bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in S Maine. 30 miles (48 km) long.
- pensacola bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, in NW Florida. About 30 miles (48 km) long.
- pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
- pentatonicism — the use of a five-tone scale.
- periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
- perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
- perscrutation — a very careful exploration or inspection
- personal call — a private phone call
- personal care — assistance in dressing, grooming, etc., provided to elderly, disabled, or other persons who are unable to care for themselves.
- personalistic — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- perspicacious — having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning: to exhibit perspicacious judgment.
- petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- phase encoded — (storage) (PE) A recording method used for 1600 BPI magnetic tapes. Compare NRZI, GCR.
- phelloplastic — an image or a representation that has been fashioned from cork
- phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
- pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
- place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- pleurocarpous — (of certain mosses) bearing the fructifications along the main stem or lateral branches.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
- polar nucleus — Botany. either of two female haploid nuclei, in the embryo sac of flowers, that fuse to produce a diploid nucleus, which combines with a male nucleus to form the endosperm.
- polygalaceous — any plant of the genus Polygala, comprising the milkworts.
- polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
- porcelaineous — like porcelain
- post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.