13-letter words containing l, o, u, i, s, p
- postauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- postliminious — subsequently undertaken
- postulational — to ask, demand, or claim.
- poult-de-soie — a soft, ribbed silk fabric, used especially for dresses.
- pound-foolish — not handling large sums of money wisely
- precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
- prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- pretentiously — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- proliferously — by proliferation
- promiscuously — characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis.
- prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
- psammophilous — living or growing in sand
- pseudo-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- pseudoclassic — falsely or spuriously classic.
- public school — (in the U.S.) a school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of free public education commonly including primary and secondary schools.
- public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
- punctiliously — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- purpose-built — A purpose-built building has been specially designed and built for a particular use.
- pusillanimous — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
- 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
- self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- spinal column — the series of vertebrae in a vertebrate animal forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; spine; backbone.
- spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
- splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
- sub-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- sublime porte — official name of Porte.
- subperiosteal — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
- subpopulation — the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area.
- subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
- subtropically — in the subtropics
- supercollider — a very large colliding-beam machine in which superconducting magnets create millions of megavolts of energy.
- superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
- superlobbyist — someone who lobbies on behalf of another
- superloyalist — a fanatically loyal supporter (esp of a political party)
- supermotility — Biology. moving or capable of moving spontaneously: motile cells; motile spores.
- supernational — tending to involve, or extending authority over, more than one nation; international; supranational.
- superrational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
- superregional — involving many regions
- supplantation — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- suppositional — the act of supposing.
- supralittoral — of or relating to the biogeographic region of a shore of a lake, sea, or ocean permanently above water but made damp by spray from waves or by capillarity of the substrate.
- supranational — outside or beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.
- suprarational — not understandable by reason alone; beyond rational comprehension.
- thiosulphuric — of or relating to thiosulphuric acid or anything derived from it
- total impulse — a measure of the maximum momentum that a given reaction engine and fuel supply can impart to a vehicle.