13-letter words containing e, m, p, l
- pronominalize — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
- proto-elamite — the indigenous script of Elam, found on inscriptions and tablets from the fourth millennium b.c.
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- puddle jumper — a light plane, especially one traveling only short distances or making many stops.
- puddle-jumper — a light plane, especially one traveling only short distances or making many stops.
- purple martin — a large American swallow, Progne subis, the male of which is blue-black.
- purple mombin — a tree, Spondias purpurea, of tropical America, having clusters of purple or greenish flowers and yellow or dark red fruit that is edible either raw or cooked.
- pyrheliometer — an instrument for measuring the total intensity of the sun's energy radiation.
- quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
- 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
- re-employment — an act or instance of employing someone or something.
- recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
- redevelopment — the act or process of redeveloping.
- replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- republicanism — republican government.
- river lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis; a jawless fish
- rumble strips — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
- rumbledethump — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- sample letter — an example of a particular type of letter intended to show people how to construct their own letter
- sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- selenotropism — growth in response to moonlight.
- self-composed — being or appearing to be composed; calm.
- self-contempt — the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
- self-employed — earning one's living directly from one's own profession or business, as a freelance writer or artist, rather than as an employee earning salary or commission from another.
- self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
- self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- self-pampered — to treat or gratify with extreme or excessive indulgence, kindness, or care: to pamper a child; to pamper one's stomach.
- semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
- semiempirical — partly empirical
- semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
- semipalmation — the state of being semipalmate
- semipermeable — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
- semipolitical — of a partially political nature; having some political features.
- semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
- sheep measles — a disease of sheep caused by infestation by the cysticerci of a dog tapeworm (Taenia ovis)
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
- simple minded — free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated.
- simple-minded — free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated.
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
- speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
- spermatoblast — a reproductive cell
- sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.
- spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).