13-letter words containing m, i, a, s, p, r
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
- physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
- piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
- pilaster mass — an engaged pier, usually plain, used as a buttress.
- piroplasmosis — babesiosis.
- plagiotropism — plagiotropic tendency or growth.
- plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
- plimsoll mark — load-line mark.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
- polyoma virus — a small DNA-containing virus, of the papovavirus group, that can produce a variety of tumors in mice, hamsters, rabbits, and rats.
- polyribosomal — relating to a polyribosome
- pons asinorum — a geometric proposition that if a triangle has two of its sides equal, the angles opposite these sides are also equal: so named from the difficulty experienced by beginners in mastering it. Euclid, 1:5.
- popular music — music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies
- post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
- 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.
- posttraumatic — occurring after physical or psychological trauma.
- 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-eclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- preliminaries — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
- primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
- primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- primigravidas — a woman pregnant for the first time.
- 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.
- prismatically — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- program music — music intended to convey an impression of a definite series of images, scenes, or events.
- promised land — Heaven.
- promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
- protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- radio compass — a radio receiver with a directional antenna for determining the bearing of the receiver from a radio transmitter.
- republicanism — republican government.
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- scripturalism — the state of being scriptural or adhering to the Scriptures when translating or writing
- semi-parasite — Biology. commonly parasitic but also capable of living on dead or decaying animal matter.
- semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
- semiempirical — partly empirical
- semioviparous — bearing young in an incomplete state of development, as a marsupial.
- semiparasitic — Biology. commonly parasitic but also capable of living on dead or decaying animal matter.
- semipermanent — not quite permanent.
- semipermeable — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.