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13-letter words containing d, e, n, s

  • phase encoded — (storage)   (PE) A recording method used for 1600 BPI magnetic tapes. Compare NRZI, GCR.
  • phonendoscope — an instrument that amplifies small sounds, esp within the human body
  • phony disease — a disease of peaches, characterized by dwarfing, dark-green leaves, premature leafing and flowering, and the production of reduced numbers of small fruit, caused by a virus, Nanus mirabilis.
  • pigheadedness — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
  • plenitudinous — characterized or marked by plenitude.
  • polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
  • possessedness — the state or condition of being possessed
  • post-actinide — transactinide
  • 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.
  • postdebutante — following the stage of being a debutante
  • postmodernism — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, especially a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity.
  • postmodernist — relating to late 20th-century art movement
  • postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • predesignated — to designate beforehand.
  • predestinated — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
  • predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • prediscussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
  • predistortion — preemphasis.
  • preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
  • prepositioned — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
  • presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
  • presidentship — presidency.
  • pretendership — the standing of a pretender
  • priest-ridden — dominated or governed by or excessively under the influence of priests
  • prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • promised land — Heaven.
  • propositioned — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
  • prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
  • prudentialist — a person who acts prudentially
  • pseudoscience — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
  • pudding stone — conglomerate (def 3).
  • pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
  • pycnidiospore — the fruiting body of certain fungi, which contains spore-bearing cells
  • qualifiedness — The property of being qualified (restricted or limited by conditions).
  • queen's award — either of two awards instituted by royal warrant (1976) for a sustained increase in export earnings by a British firm (Queen's Award for Export Achievement) or for an advance in technology (Queen's Award for Technological Achievement)
  • queen's guide — (in Britain and the Commonwealth when the sovereign is female) a Guide who has passed the highest tests of proficiency
  • quindicessima — (music) Two octaves higher. Marking indicates a passage to be transposed up two octaves. Abbreviation: 15ma.
  • radiationless — not emitting or producing radiation
  • radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
  • raison d'etat — a purely political reason for governmental action, based on the national interest and often violating principles of justice.
  • raison d'etre — reason or justification for being or existence: Art is the artist's raison d'être.
  • random access — designating or of a volatile memory that allows data to be accessed directly and does not require following a sequence of storage locations
  • 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
  • random-access — direct-access.
  • re-instructed — to furnish with knowledge, especially by a systematic method; teach; train; educate.
  • read a lesson — to censure or reprimand, esp in a long-winded manner
  • reading glass — a magnifying glass that people use to enlarge text to make it easier to read
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