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13-letter words containing a, s, p, c

  • playing cards — cards used in playing various games, arranged in decks of four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs): a standard deck has 52 cards
  • 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.
  • pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
  • pococurantist — a person who demonstrates a tendency toward indifference
  • poison sumach — an anacardiaceous swamp shrub, Rhus (or Toxicodendron) vernix of the southeastern US, that has greenish-white berries and causes an itching rash on contact with the skin
  • 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.
  • pontificators — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • popular music — music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies
  • 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
  • post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
  • post-colonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
  • post-contract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
  • post-socratic — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
  • postage costs — the cost of having mail delivered
  • postauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
  • postcanonical — written at a later date than the books belonging to a canon, especially the Bible.
  • postclassical — of or relating to a time after the classical period, especially in art, culture, or literature.
  • postconciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
  • postcranially — affecting the postcranium
  • postholocaust — following a holocaust
  • postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
  • posttraumatic — occurring after physical or psychological trauma.
  • postvasectomy — of or occurring in the period after a vasectomy
  • potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
  • practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
  • pre-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
  • pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
  • pre-classical — of, relating to, or characteristic of Greek and Roman antiquity: classical literature; classical languages.
  • pre-eclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
  • preantiseptic — (especially of surgery) noting that period of time before the adoption of the principles of antisepsis (about 1867).
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • precapitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
  • precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
  • press attaché — the official in an embassy who has the job of liaising with the media
  • press charges — make formal accusation
  • presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
  • primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
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