13-letter words containing c, r, o, s, p
- norway spruce — a European spruce, Picea abies, having shiny, dark-green needles, grown as an ornamental.
- ocean springs — a town in SE Mississippi.
- oneiroscopist — a person who specialises in studying and interpreting dreams
- onychophorans — Plural form of onychophoran.
- opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
- opportunistic — adhering to a policy of opportunism; practicing opportunism.
- orchesography — a written study of dancing
- orchestra pit — musicians' seating in front of stage
- orchestra-pit — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
- oscillographs — Plural form of oscillograph.
- oscillography — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
- outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
- overprescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- overprocessed — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
- palaeocrystic — consisting of former glacial formation
- pantisocratic — relating to pantisocracy
- papaveraceous — belonging to the Papaveraceae, the poppy family of plants.
- parapsychosis — an abnormal psychosis
- parasoft corp — Distributors of the message passing system Express.
- paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
- passion cross — Latin cross.
- past historic — the simple past
- pastoral care — help with personal needs and problems given by a teacher
- peace process — A peace process consists of all the meetings, agreements, and negotiations in which people such as politicians are involved when they are trying to arrange peace between countries or groups that are fighting with each other.
- percussionist — a musician who plays percussion instruments.
- perfect storm — a detrimental or calamitous situation or event arising from the powerful combined effect of a unique set of circumstances: a perfect storm battering corporate pension plans.
- perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
- perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
- periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
- perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
- perscrutation — a very careful exploration or inspection
- 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.
- personalistic — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- perspicacious — having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning: to exhibit perspicacious judgment.
- petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
- pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- pharyngoscopy — an examination by means of a pharyngoscope.
- photochromism — the reversible transformation of something's colour due to exposure to electromagnetic radiation such as sunlight
- photocomposer — a machine for setting type photographically.
- physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
- physiographic — the science of physical geography.
- pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
- place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
- plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
- plectopterous — of or relating to the order Plectoptera, containing mayflies
- pleurocarpous — (of certain mosses) bearing the fructifications along the main stem or lateral branches.