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13-letter words containing a, n, l, e, p, s

  • phalansterism — a model of society in which members of a community live in the same space and share common belongings
  • phenomenalism — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
  • piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
  • pilsner-glass — a pale, light lager beer.
  • pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
  • place setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
  • place-setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
  • plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • plane sailing — sailing on a course plotted without reference to the curvature of the earth.
  • plane spotter — a person who observes, photographs, and catalogues aircraft as a hobby
  • planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
  • planetologist — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
  • plasma engine — an engine that generates thrust by reaction to the emission of a jet of plasma
  • plasma screen — A plasma screen is a type of thin television screen or computer screen that produces high-quality images.
  • plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
  • plastoquinone — a quinone that occurs in the chloroplasts of plants and functions as an electron carrier during photosynthesis.
  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • 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.
  • pleasant hill — a city in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
  • pleasantville — a city in SE New Jersey.
  • plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
  • pneumatolysis — the process by which rocks are altered or minerals and ores are formed by the action of vapors given off by magma.
  • point of sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
  • point-of-sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
  • 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.
  • pollen basket — (of bees) a smooth area on the hind tibia of each leg fringed with long hairs and serving to transport pollen.
  • polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
  • polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
  • pompton lakes — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
  • postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • preliminaries — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
  • premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
  • prepositional — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
  • present value — current monetary worth
  • presentiality — the state of being present
  • principalness — the quality or position of being principal
  • progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
  • promised land — Heaven.
  • provincialise — to make provincial in character.
  • prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
  • prudentialist — a person who acts prudentially
  • prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
  • psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
  • psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
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