13-letter words containing a, p, o, n
- peregrinatory — tending to peregrinate; relating to or characteristic of a traveller
- perfectionate — to perfect; to make perfect
- perimenopause — the period leading up to the menopause during which some of the symptoms associated with menopause may be experienced
- periodization — an act or instance of dividing a subject into historical eras for purposes of analysis and study.
- periodontally — with respect to periodontal tissue
- peritonealize — to cover with peritoneum.
- perlustration — the act of perlustrating; a thorough inspection or survey, esp of letters for purposes of surveillance
- perscrutation — a very careful exploration or inspection
- perseveration — the act or process of perseverating.
- persian melon — a round variety of muskmelon having a green, reticulate, unribbed rind and orange flesh.
- persona grata — an acceptable person, especially a diplomatic representative acceptable to the government to which he or she is accredited.
- personal best — A sports player's personal best is the highest score or fastest time that they have ever achieved.
- 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.
- personal foul — a foul called in certain games, as basketball or football, for illegal body contact or rough, unsportsmanlike play.
- personal loan — a loan of money for personal use
- personalistic — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- personalities — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
- pertaining to — having to do with
- pervaporation — Pervaporation is a separation process in which a substance permeates through a membrane and then evaporates.
- petit treason — the killing of a husband by his wife, of a lord by his servant, or of an ecclesiastic by a subordinate ecclesiastic.
- petrification — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
- petrol tanker — a specially equipped ship or truck for transporting petrol and other fuels
- phallocentric — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- pham van dong — 1906–2000, Vietnamese political leader: prime minister of North Vietnam 1955–76 and of unified Vietnam 1976–86.
- phantasmagory — phantasmagoria.
- phantom stock — an employee bonus expressed as the cash value of a specified amount of company stock to be received at a future date, meant to create employee interest in raising stock prices without giving any stock away.
- pharaoh hound — one of a breed of medium-sized gazehounds with a smooth coat, red to tan in color with white markings, and erect ears.
- pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
- pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- pharyngoscopy — an examination by means of a pharyngoscope.
- phase encoded — (storage) (PE) A recording method used for 1600 BPI magnetic tapes. Compare NRZI, GCR.
- phenobarbital — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
- phenomenalism — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
- phenomenality — highly extraordinary or prodigious; exceptional: phenomenal speed.
- phenomenalize — to regard or interpret as a phenomenon.
- phenothiazine — Chemistry. a grayish-green to greenish-yellow, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 1 2 H 9 NS, used chiefly as an insecticide and vermifuge, and in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals.
- philanthropic — of, pertaining to, engaged in, or characterized by philanthropy; benevolent: a philanthropic foundation.
- phonautograph — a piece of equipment that records sound visually by detecting the sound waves and indicating them on a graph
- phone hacking — an act or instance of gaining access to a phone's voicemail, email, text messages, etc., without authorization from the phone's owner.
- phone-tapping — Phone-tapping is the activity of listening secretly to someone's phone conversations using special electronic equipment. In most cases phone-tapping is illegal.
- phong shading — (graphics) A model of how light is reflected from surfaces used extensively in three dimensional graphics to generate visually realistic images.
- phonocamptics — the branch of acoustics dealing with echoes
- phony disease — a disease of peaches, characterized by dwarfing, dark-green leaves, premature leafing and flowering, and the production of reduced numbers of small fruit, caused by a virus, Nanus mirabilis.
- phony-baloney — nonsense; baloney.
- phosphokinase — an increase in the amount of creatine phosphokinase that is released into the bloodstream when a muscle becomes injured
- photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
- photo-stating — a camera for making facsimile copies of documents, drawings, etc., in the form of paper negatives on which the positions of lines, objects, etc., in the originals are maintained.
- photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.