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13-letter words containing n, i, p, o, e

  • spontaneities — the exhibiting of actions, impulses, or behaviour that are stimulated by internal processes
  • sporopollenin — an inert, tough polymer forming the resistant outer coat of a pollen grain or spore.
  • sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
  • spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
  • spread option — spread (def 25b).
  • spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
  • springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
  • staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
  • step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
  • steppingstone — a stone, or one of a line of stones, in shallow water, a marshy place, or the like, that is stepped on in crossing.
  • stevens point — a city in central Wisconsin.
  • strepsipteron — a strepsipterous insect.
  • streptokinase — an enzyme used to dissolve blood clots.
  • stripped down — having only essential features; lacking any special appointments or accessories.
  • stripped-down — having only essential features; lacking any special appointments or accessories.
  • subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
  • super-heroine — a woman noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: Esther and other biblical heroines.
  • super-tension — the act of stretching or straining.
  • superdominant — submediant.
  • superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
  • supernational — tending to involve, or extending authority over, more than one nation; international; supranational.
  • superordinary — that is superior to the ordinary
  • superordinate — of higher degree in condition or rank.
  • superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
  • superposition — the order in which sedimentary strata are superposed one above another.
  • superrational — beyond the scope or range of reason; intuitional.
  • superreaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
  • superregional — involving many regions
  • superromantic — exceptionally romantic
  • synaposematic — relating to synaposematism
  • synecphonesis — the fusion of two syllables into one
  • taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
  • tarpeian rock — a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
  • tax exemption — immunity from paying tax
  • tax inspector — a government official whose job is to make sure that people and companies are paying the right amount of tax
  • te waipounamu — a Māori name for New Zealand's South Island
  • technopolitan — of or relating to a place or society dominated by technology
  • teleportation — to transport (a body) by telekinesis.
  • temporariness — lasting, existing, serving, or effective for a time only; not permanent: a temporary need; a temporary job.
  • temporization — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
  • temporizingly — in a yielding manner
  • terminal post — A terminal post is the terminal on a battery to which the battery lead is attached.
  • terpsichorean — pertaining to dancing.
  • the antipodes — Australia and New Zealand
  • the provinces — those parts of a country lying outside the capital and other large cities and regarded as outside the mainstream of sophisticated culture
  • theanthropism — the doctrine of the union of the divine and human natures, especially the manifestation of God as man in Christ.
  • thespian lion — a lion that attacked the flocks of Amphitryon and was killed by Hercules.
  • three-pointer — Basketball. a field goal worth three points, made from behind a specified line (three-point line)
  • tip one's hat — to take off, raise, or touch one's hat in salutation
  • to keep going — If you keep going, you continue moving along or doing something that you have started, even if you are tired and would prefer to stop.
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