13-letter words containing m, e, s, t
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- photocomposer — a machine for setting type photographically.
- photoemission — photoelectric effect.
- physostigmine — an alkaloid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease to raise the level of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and also as a miotic in glaucoma.
- pick up steam — If a belief, a plan, or a project picks up steam, it starts to develop and become more important.
- pilaster mass — an engaged pier, usually plain, used as a buttress.
- plasmodesmata — any of many minute strands of cytoplasm that extend through plant cell walls and connect adjoining cells.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- plenum system — a type of air-conditioning system in which air is passed into a room at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure
- plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
- plumbosolvent — able to dissolve lead
- pneumatolysis — the process by which rocks are altered or minerals and ores are formed by the action of vapors given off by magma.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- points system — a system used to assess applicants' eligibility for local authority housing, based on (points awarded for) such factors as the length of time the applicant has lived in the area, how many children are in the family, etc
- 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.
- pommes frites — French fries
- pompton lakes — a town in NE New Jersey.
- portal system — a vascular arrangement in which blood from the capillaries of one organ is transported to the capillaries of another organ by a connecting vein or veins.
- post feminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- post meridiem — p.m.
- post-consumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- post-feminism — a way of thinking that develops, or reacts to or against previous feminist ideology
- post-feminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- 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.
- postage meter — an office machine used in bulk mailing that imprints prepaid postage and a dated postmark.
- postage stamp — small adhesive label for mail
- postage-stamp — of very small area or size: a postage-stamp bikini.
- postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
- postemergence — occurring or applied after emergence of a plant from the soil and before full growth: postemergence frost.
- postemergency — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after an emergency
- postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- 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
- posttreatment — an act or manner of treating.
- postvasectomy — of or occurring in the period after a vasectomy
- potato-masher — a kitchen implement used to crush or mash potatoes
- praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
- pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- pre-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
- premonishment — a forewarning
- presettlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
- presumptively — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- pretermission — to let pass without notice; disregard.
- primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
- primitiveness — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.