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13-letter words containing d, i, s, p, e

  • over-promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
  • overimpressed — very impressed
  • paddle tennis — a game combining elements of tennis and handball, played with paddles and a rubber ball on a screened court about half the size of and having a lower net than a tennis court.
  • paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
  • painted horse — paint (def 6).
  • painted snipe — either of two snipelike birds of the family Rostratulidae, of South America and the Old World tropics, the female of which is larger and more brightly colored than the male.
  • palisade cell — a columnar cell of palisade parenchyma.
  • paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
  • paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
  • paradise lost — an epic poem (1667) by John Milton.
  • parameterised — to describe (a phenomenon, problem, curve, surface, etc.) by the use of parameters.
  • parasite drag — the component of drag caused by skin friction and the shape of the surfaces not contributing to lift.
  • parenthesized — to insert (a word, phrase, etc.) as a parenthesis.
  • pas de calais — a department of N France, in Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, on the Straits of Dover (the Pas de Calais): the part of France closest to the British Isles. Capital: Arras. Pop: 1 451 307 (2003 est). Area: 6752 sq km (2633 sq miles)
  • pas-de-calais — French name of the Strait of Dover.
  • peace studies — a field of political science which examines how to reduce conflicts
  • peak district — a region of N central England, mainly in N Derbyshire at the S end of the Pennines: consists of moors in the north and a central limestone plateau; many caves. Highest point: 727 m (2088 ft)
  • pease pudding — a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.
  • pedal cyclist — a person who rides a pedal cycle, as opposed to a motorcycle
  • pedestrianism — the exercise or practice of walking.
  • pedestrianize — to go on foot; walk.
  • periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
  • periodontitis — inflammation of the periodontium caused by bacteria that infect the roots of teeth and the surrounding gum crevices, producing bleeding, pus formation, and gradual loss of bone and the tissues that support the teeth. Compare pyorrhea (def 2).
  • periodontosis — rapidly advancing juvenile periodontitis.
  • perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
  • phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
  • phillips head — a screw head having two partial slots crossed at right angles, driven by a special screwdriver (Phillips screwdriver)
  • philo judaeus — c20 b.c.–a.d. c50, Alexandrian Jewish theologian and philosopher.
  • 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.
  • physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
  • pigheadedness — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
  • piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
  • pise-de-terre — a mixture of sand, loam, clay, and other ingredients rammed hard within forms as a building material.
  • plenitudinous — characterized or marked by plenitude.
  • polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
  • polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
  • poor-spirited — having or showing a poor, cowardly, or abject spirit.
  • posix threads — (programming)   (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
  • post meridiem — p.m.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • poult-de-soie — a soft, ribbed silk fabric, used especially for dresses.
  • pre-described — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
  • pre-disclosed — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
  • pre-discussed — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
  • pre-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • predesignated — to designate beforehand.
  • predestinated — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
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