13-letter words containing a, n, i, m, l, p
- phenomenalize — to regard or interpret as a phenomenon.
- piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
- placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
- plant kingdom — the plants of the world collectively.
- plasma engine — an engine that generates thrust by reaction to the emission of a jet of plasma
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- platiniridium — a natural alloy composed chiefly of platinum and iridium.
- platinum disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 300 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 600 000 copies
- platyhelminth — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes; a flatworm.
- playing games — If you say that someone is playing games or playing silly games, you mean that they are not treating a situation seriously and you are annoyed with them.
- pneumatolysis — the process by which rocks are altered or minerals and ores are formed by the action of vapors given off by magma.
- pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
- policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
- polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
- polynomialism — a polynomial naming system
- pompon dahlia — a cultivated variety of the dahlia flower, with a small globelike flower head
- pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
- predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- preliminaries — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- preliminarily — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
- premillennial — of or relating to the period preceding the millennium.
- promised land — Heaven.
- pronominalize — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
- purple martin — a large American swallow, Progne subis, the male of which is blue-black.
- pusillanimity — the state or condition of being pusillanimous; timidity; cowardliness.
- pusillanimous — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
- recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
- republicanism — republican government.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- salpingostomy — the formation of an artificial opening into a Fallopian tube.
- scapulimantic — relating to scapulimancy
- semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
- semipalmation — the state of being semipalmate
- semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
- shopping mall — mall (def 1).
- sinumbra lamp — an unshaded sperm-oil lamp consisting of a translucent glass globe supported on a pedestal: a form of astral lamp.
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- spinal column — the series of vertebrae in a vertebrate animal forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; spine; backbone.
- sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
- supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
- supermilitant — highly militant
- synophthalmia — cyclopia.
- terminal post — A terminal post is the terminal on a battery to which the battery lead is attached.