13-letter words containing n, s, p
- open and shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
- open diapason — a full, rich outpouring of melodious sound.
- open position — Music. the arrangement of a chord with wide intervals between the parts.
- open question — question: invites long answer
- open registry — ship registration under a national flag available to all ships regardless of nationality.
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- open sentence — Mathematics. an equation or inequality containing one or more variables in which its truth or falsehood depends upon the values assumed by the variables in a particular instance, as the equation x + 3 = 8.
- open universe — a model of the universe in which the universe expands forever because there is not enough mass to counteract the expansion by means of gravitational attraction.
- open-and-shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
- open-standard — (of computer programs, codes, etc) freely available to all users
- openendedness — not having fixed limits; unrestricted; broad: an open-ended discussion.
- opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
- opentransport — (networking) (OT) A complete reimplementation of all levels of the Macintosh networking code including "Classic" AppleTalk and MacTCP. It appeared in MacOS revision 7.5.3 [or earlier? Date?].
- operativeness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being operative.
- opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
- opportuneness — The state or condition of being opportune.
- opportunistic — adhering to a policy of opportunism; practicing opportunism.
- opportunities — Plural form of opportunity.
- oppositionary — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
- oppositionist — a person who offers opposition; a member of an opposition.
- opsonic index — the ratio of the number of bacteria destroyed by phagocytes in the blood of a test patient to the number destroyed in the blood of a normal individual
- optical sound — sound recorded on and subsequently played back from an optical or photographic soundtrack, as opposed to a magnetic soundtrack.
- optimizations — Plural form of optimization.
- ora pro nobis — a Latin invocation meaning pray for us
- organotropism — Physiology. the attraction of microorganisms or chemical substances to particular organs or tissues of the body.
- outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
- outspokenness — The quality of being outspoken; bluntness; frankness; candour.
- outwash plain — Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
- over-shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- overexpansion — the act or process of expanding.
- overprovision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- overrepresent — to give too much representation to; represent in numbers that are disproportionately high.
- ovipositional — pertaining to the laying of eggs through an ovipositor
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- paddle tennis — a game combining elements of tennis and handball, played with paddles and a rubber ball on a screened court about half the size of and having a lower net than a tennis court.
- painstakingly — taking or characterized by taking pains or trouble; expending or showing diligent care and effort; careful: a painstaking craftsman; painstaking research.
- painted horse — paint (def 6).
- painted snipe — either of two snipelike birds of the family Rostratulidae, of South America and the Old World tropics, the female of which is larger and more brightly colored than the male.
- painterliness — the quality of being painterly
- palazzo pants — women's trousers with very wide legs
- paleosiberian — a group of languages comprising those languages of Siberia that are not affiliated with Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic, or Eskimo-Aleut and including the Chukotian family and the unrelated language isolates Ket, Nivkh, and Yukaghir; Paleo-Asiatic.
- palingenesist — a person who believes in a doctrine of rebirth or transmigration of souls.
- pallas athena — Also, Athene [uh-thee-nee] /əˈθi ni/ (Show IPA). Also called Pallas, Pallas Athena. the virgin deity of the ancient Greeks worshiped as the goddess of wisdom, fertility, the useful arts, and prudent warfare. At her birth she sprang forth fully armed from the head of her father, Zeus. Compare Minerva.
- pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.
- pan-germanism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
- pan-teutonism — Pan-Germanism.
- panaesthetism — the belief that consciousness may be present in all matter
- pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
- pandora's box — a source of extensive but unforeseen troubles or problems: The senate investigation turned out to be a Pandora's box for the administration.
- pangola grass — a grass, Digitaria decumbens, native to southern Africa, cultivated for hay and forage in the southeastern U.S.