13-letter words containing n, m, p
- polysomnogram — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
- pomme blanche — breadroot.
- pompano beach — a city in SE Florida.
- pompon dahlia — a cultivated variety of the dahlia flower, with a small globelike flower head
- pompton lakes — a town in NE New Jersey.
- 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.
- pop-down menu — pull-down menu
- popcorn movie — a film that appeals to a mass audience
- poppy anemone — a southern European plant, Anemone coronaria, of the buttercup family, having tuberous roots and solitary, poppylike, red, blue, or white flowers, grown as an ornamental.
- porte-monnaie — a purse or pocketbook
- post feminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- 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-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-midnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
- postcommunion — the part of a communion service that follows after the congregation has received communion.
- 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
- postliminious — subsequently undertaken
- 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.
- potato famine — a severe shortage of food caused by the failure of the potato crop
- potentiometer — a device for measuring electromotive force or potential difference by comparison with a known voltage.
- powder monkey — (formerly) a boy employed on warships to carry gunpowder from the magazine to the guns.
- praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
- pre-agreement — the act of agreeing or of coming to a mutual arrangement.
- pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
- pre-emergence — of or relating to the period prior to emergence of something
- pre-eminently — Pre-eminently means to a very great extent.
- pre-mentioned — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
- pre-migration — the process or act of migrating.
- pre-placement — the act of an employment office or employer in filling a position.
- preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
- preattachment — an act of attaching or the state of being attached.
- precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
- precommitment — the act of committing.
- predetermined — to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
- predeterminer — a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, often quantitative in meaning, that may be placed before an article or other determiner, as all in all the paintings or half in half her salary.
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
- predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- preemployment — being required or accomplished before an employee begins a new job: a preemployment medical exam.
- prefigurement — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
- preliminaries — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- preliminarily — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.