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

  • pseudoscience — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
  • psychasthenia — Psychiatry. (no longer in technical use) a neurosis marked by fear, anxiety, phobias, etc.
  • psychasthenic — a person who has psychasthenia
  • psychogenesis — genesis of the psyche.
  • psychogenetic — genesis of the psyche.
  • psychokinesis — the purported ability to move or deform inanimate objects, as metal spoons, through mental processes.
  • psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
  • psychomimetic — psychotomimetic.
  • psychotogenic — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
  • psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
  • public access — the availability of noncommercial television and radio broadcasting facilities to community groups or members of the public for programs of general interest to the community, especially as a condition of cable television franchises.
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • pucciniaceous — (of a fungus) belonging to the genus Puccinia
  • pudding stone — conglomerate (def 3).
  • pull a fastie — to play a sly trick
  • 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).
  • purpose-built — A purpose-built building has been specially designed and built for a particular use.
  • purse strings — hold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
  • pursuit plane — (formerly) an armed airplane designed for speed and maneuverability in fighting enemy aircraft.
  • pussy-whipped — (of a woman) to dominate or control (a romantic partner); henpeck.
  • pycnidiospore — the fruiting body of certain fungi, which contains spore-bearing cells
  • 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 )
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • quality press — the more serious newspapers which give detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
  • quasi-private — belonging to some particular person: private property.
  • quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
  • quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
  • radiopacities — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
  • rail-splitter — a person or thing that splits logs into rails, especially for fences.
  • raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
  • re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
  • re-inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
  • reading speed — the rate at which something is read, often expressed in terms of words per minute. Reading speed is usually determined by the purpose of reading (for comprehension, learning, memorization, etc)
  • reagent strip — A reagent strip is a thin piece of paper impregnated with a reagent (= a substance that causes a chemical reaction) to a specific substance, used in testing for that substance in a body of fluid.
  • receptiveness — having the quality of receiving, taking in, or admitting.
  • recomposition — to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
  • recompression — the act or process of compressing something again
  • recovery ship — a naval vessel designed to participate in the retrieval of a satellite, instrument package, or spaceship after it has re-entered the atmosphere and landed in the ocean
  • redescription — the act of redescribing
  • redisposition — the withdrawal and redistribution of armed forces with the aim of more effective use
  • rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
  • reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
  • release print — Movies. print (def 31).
  • relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
  • repercussions — an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action: The repercussions of the quarrel were widespread.
  • repetitiously — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
  • replenishable — able to be replenished
  • replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • repositioning — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
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