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13-letter words containing a, s, p, e, r, m

  • place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
  • plasma screen — A plasma screen is a type of thin television screen or computer screen that produces high-quality images.
  • platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
  • pleasure dome — a large building, facility, or place used for recreation.
  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • portal system — a vascular arrangement in which blood from the capillaries of one organ is transported to the capillaries of another organ by a connecting vein or veins.
  • post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • postage meter — an office machine used in bulk mailing that imprints prepaid postage and a dated postmark.
  • postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • posttreatment — an act or manner of treating.
  • potato-masher — a kitchen implement used to crush or mash potatoes
  • praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
  • 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-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-eclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • preliminaries — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
  • premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
  • primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
  • primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
  • primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
  • prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
  • privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
  • problem state — IBM jargon for user mode, the opposite of "supervisor state". On IBM System 360, 370 and 390 mainframes privileged instructions may only be executed in "supervisor state". Application programs request the operating system to perform these operations by using the Supervisor Call (SVC) instruction.
  • promised land — Heaven.
  • prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
  • protest march — public demonstration
  • protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
  • proverbialism — a proverbial expression
  • prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
  • random sample — a statistical sample that is devised to avoid interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population
  • raspberry jam — jam made using raspberries
  • representamen — (in semiotics) a sign or signifier, whether physical or otherwise, which points to an object
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • revenue stamp — a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.
  • sample letter — an example of a particular type of letter intended to show people how to construct their own letter
  • sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
  • sauce supreme — suprême (def 1).
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • self-pampered — to treat or gratify with extreme or excessive indulgence, kindness, or care: to pamper a child; to pamper one's stomach.
  • semi-parasite — Biology. commonly parasitic but also capable of living on dead or decaying animal matter.
  • semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
  • semiempirical — partly empirical
  • semioviparous — bearing young in an incomplete state of development, as a marsupial.
  • semiparasitic — Biology. commonly parasitic but also capable of living on dead or decaying animal matter.
  • semipermanent — not quite permanent.
  • semipermeable — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
  • semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
  • septempartite — separated into seven sections.
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