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

  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • piss all over — to be far superior to
  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
  • pleurisy root — a North American milkweed, Asclepias tuberosa, whose root was used as a remedy for pleurisy.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • police escort — a police officer or vehicle which accompanies a prisoner
  • 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.
  • pommes frites — French fries
  • poor-spirited — having or showing a poor, cowardly, or abject spirit.
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
  • 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).
  • possessionary — of, relating to, or characterized by possession
  • possessorship — to have as belonging to one; have as property; own: to possess a house and a car.
  • post meridiem — p.m.
  • 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.
  • post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • post-tertiary — denoting or formed after the Tertiary period of geological time
  • postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
  • postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
  • posterization — a process for producing a posterlike, high-contrast color reproduction from continuous-tone art by using separation negatives of various densities.
  • posting error — an error made while carrying over an entry from a journal to a ledger
  • 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
  • postoperative — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • postrecession — occurring or existing in the period after a recession
  • power station — a generating station.
  • power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
  • praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
  • pre-disclosed — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
  • pre-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
  • precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • prediscussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
  • predistortion — preemphasis.
  • premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
  • premonishment — a forewarning
  • 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.
  • prepositioned — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
  • prepossessing — that impresses favorably; engaging or attractive: a confident and prepossessing young man.
  • prepossession — the state of being prepossessed.
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