13-letter words containing a, c, o, e, n, s
- octagon scale — a scale used in laying out octagonal figures of various sizes.
- octogenarians — Plural form of octogenarian.
- on one's back — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
- on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- oraculousness — the state of being oraculous
- orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.
- orchestration — (uncountable) the arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra.
- ordinal scale — a scale on which data is shown simply in order of magnitude since there is no standard of measurement of differences: for instance, a squash ladder is an ordinal scale since one can say only that one person is better than another, but not by how much
- organoarsenic — (organic chemistry) Describing any organic compound containing a carbon to arsenic bond.
- overacuteness — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- overinsurance — (of goods or property) insurance in excess of actual value
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
- 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.
- 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.
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- phase encoded — (storage) (PE) A recording method used for 1600 BPI magnetic tapes. Compare NRZI, GCR.
- pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- 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.
- 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.
- post-actinide — transactinide
- postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- processionary — of, relating to, or moving in a procession
- procrastinate — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- proteinaceous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- pucciniaceous — (of a fungus) belonging to the genus Puccinia
- radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
- raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
- random access — designating or of a volatile memory that allows data to be accessed directly and does not require following a sequence of storage locations
- random-access — direct-access.