13-letter words containing e, p, a, y, m
- predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- preliminarily — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- primary cache — (hardware, architecture) (L1 cache, level one cache) A small, fast cache memory inside or close to the CPU chip. For example, an Intel 80486 has an eight-kilobyte on-chip cache, and most Pentiums have a 16-KB on-chip level one cache that consists of an 8-KB instruction cache and an 8-KB data cache. The larger, slower secondary cache is normally connected to the CPU via its external bus.
- primary metal — metal derived directly from ore rather than from scrap.
- primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
- primary xylem — xylem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- pro-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
- pyrimethamine — a potent substance, C 1 2 H 1 3 ClN 4 , used against susceptible plasmodia in the prophylactic treatment of malaria and against Toxoplasma gondi in the treatment of toxoplasmosis.
- pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
- quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
- raspberry jam — jam made using raspberries
- river lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis; a jawless fish
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
- sparcsystem 4 — (computer) A computer built with the MicroSPARC ii 70MHz CPU as used in the SPARC 5 Model 70. The SPARCsystem 4 is basically a cheaper, cut-down SPARC 5. It has an 8-bit pixel accelerator instead of the SBus Turbo GX card. Memory expansion is limited to 160 MB. Availability was planned for March/April 1995.
- spenta mainyu — the good and creative spirit that is the offspring of Ahura Mazda.
- spermatophyte — any of the Spermatophyta, a primary division or group of plants comprising those that bear seeds.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- supermajority — a majority that must represent some percentage more than a simple majority.
- supernumerary — being in excess of the usual, proper, or prescribed number; additional; extra.
- supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
- swamp cypress — bald cypress.
- sympathectomy — surgery that interrupts a nerve pathway of the sympathetic or involuntary nervous system.
- synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
- take-home pay — the amount of salary remaining after deductions, as of taxes, have been made.
- tapestry moth — carpet moth.
- thermotherapy — treatment of disease by means of moist or dry heat.
- token payment — a small payment binding an agreement or acknowledging a debt.
- tympanic bone — (in mammals) a bone of the skull, supporting the tympanic membrane and enclosing part of the tympanum or middle ear.
- unimpeachably — above suspicion; impossible to discredit; impeccable: unimpeachable motives.
- unsympathetic — characterized by, proceeding from, exhibiting, or feeling sympathy; sympathizing; compassionate: a sympathetic listener.
- weapon system — a weapon and the components necessary to its proper function, such as targeting and guidance devices
- weeping myall — any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula (weeping myall) having gray foliage and drooping branches.
- york imperial — an American variety of yellow or green apple with red stripes.