13-letter words containing a, s, p, o
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- 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.
- post-prandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
- post-socratic — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
- post-tertiary — denoting or formed after the Tertiary period of geological time
- postage costs — the cost of having mail delivered
- postage meter — an office machine used in bulk mailing that imprints prepaid postage and a dated postmark.
- postage rates — the rates charged for the delivery of mail, depending on type, weight etc
- postage stamp — small adhesive label for mail
- postage-stamp — of very small area or size: a postage-stamp bikini.
- 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
- postdebutante — following the stage of being a debutante
- posterization — a process for producing a posterlike, high-contrast color reproduction from continuous-tone art by using separation negatives of various densities.
- postholocaust — following a holocaust
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- postisolation — following a period of isolation
- postlapsarian — occurring or being after the Fall.
- postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- postoperative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- 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.
- posttreatment — an act or manner of treating.
- postulational — to ask, demand, or claim.
- postvasectomy — of or occurring in the period after a vasectomy
- postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
- potato eaters — a painting (1885) by Vincent Van Gogh.
- potato-masher — a kitchen implement used to crush or mash potatoes
- potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
- pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
- power station — a generating station.
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
- predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- 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.
- preservations — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- 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.