13-letter words containing a, s, p, r, g, i
- 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
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- 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.
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- prague spring — a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.
- predesignated — to designate beforehand.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
- primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- primigravidas — a woman pregnant for the first time.
- prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- program music — music intended to convey an impression of a definite series of images, scenes, or events.
- progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
- prosopagnosia — an inability to recognize faces
- prostaglandin — Biochemistry. any of a class of unsaturated fatty acids that are involved in the contraction of smooth muscle, the control of inflammation and body temperature, and many other physiological functions.
- pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
- psychographic — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
- reading speed — the rate at which something is read, often expressed in terms of words per minute. Reading speed is usually determined by the purpose of reading (for comprehension, learning, memorization, etc)
- reagent strip — A reagent strip is a thin piece of paper impregnated with a reagent (= a substance that causes a chemical reaction) to a specific substance, used in testing for that substance in a body of fluid.
- reprographics — reprography.
- resting place — grave
- saratoga chip — potato chip.
- scintigraphic — of or relating to scintigraphy
- sepia drawing — a drawing with a brownish tone, produced by first bleaching it (after fixing) and then immersing it for a short time in a solution of sodium sulphide or of alkaline thiourea
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- sheepshearing — an act or instance of shearing sheep.
- shopping cart — a four-wheeled cart provided by a supermarket or other retail store for a customer's use in collecting purchases.
- single parent — mother or father without a partner
- single-parent — of or noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner: a single-parent family; a single-parent household.
- sleeping area — an area in a room or house where people can sleep
- slip carriage — a railway car detached from a moving train as it passes through a station.
- slip trailing — the act of decorating an object with a poured stream of slip.
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
- speaking part — a part in which the character speaks scripted dialogue
- speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
- speed reading — a method of reading faster than normal, esp by skimming
- sperm washing — a technique that separates sperm from the seminal fluid, used especially for isolating active sperm for artificial insemination.
- spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
- spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
- spiral casing — a spiral passage for directing the water from a penstock around a water turbine and into the rotor.
- spiral galaxy — a galaxy having a spiral structure.
- spiral spring — a form of spring consisting of a wire coiled in a helix.