13-letter words containing e, p, i, o, l, s
- pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
- point of sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
- point-of-sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
- pole position — a position on the inside of the track in any race.
- police escort — a police officer or vehicle which accompanies a prisoner
- poliomyelitis — an acute viral disease, usually affecting children and young adults, caused by any of three polioviruses, characterized by inflammation of the motor neurons of the brain stem and spinal cord, and resulting in a motor paralysis, followed by muscular atrophy and often permanent deformities.
- polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
- pollice verso — with thumbs turned downward: the sign made by spectators calling for the death of a defeated gladiator in the ancient Roman circus.
- polliniferous — Botany. producing or bearing pollen.
- polyarteritis — inflammation of the layers of an artery or of many arteries, usually caused by a severe hypersensitivity reaction, and characterized by nodules and hemorrhage along the involved vessels.
- polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
- polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
- porcelaineous — like porcelain
- portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
- position line — line of position.
- possibilities — the state or fact of being possible: the possibility of error.
- postepileptic — after an epileptic seizure
- poult-de-soie — a soft, ribbed silk fabric, used especially for dresses.
- pre-disclosed — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
- prepositional — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
- press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
- prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- pretelevision — occurring before the arrival of television
- pretentiously — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- print spooler — a program that sequences printing jobs by temporarily storing data in a buffer and processing the jobs sequentially.
- progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
- progressively — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- proliferously — by proliferation
- promised land — Heaven.
- prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- proteoclastic — of, related to, or initiating proteolysis
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- pseudo-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- pseudoclassic — falsely or spuriously classic.
- public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
- purpose-built — A purpose-built building has been specially designed and built for a particular use.
- rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
- relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
- repetitiously — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
- reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
- reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
- secret police — a police force that functions as the enforcement arm of a government's political policies and whose activities, which often include surveillance, intimidation, and physical violence as a means of suppressing dissent, are usually concealed from the public.