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13-letter words containing o, d, y, n, p

  • periodontally — with respect to periodontal tissue
  • phony disease — a disease of peaches, characterized by dwarfing, dark-green leaves, premature leafing and flowering, and the production of reduced numbers of small fruit, caused by a virus, Nanus mirabilis.
  • photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • play on words — a pun or the act of punning.
  • plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
  • pointy-headed — stupid; idiotic.
  • polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
  • polycotyledon — a plant having more than two cotyledons, as certain gymnosperms.
  • polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
  • polyprotodont — any marsupial of the group Polyprotodontia, characterized by four or more upper incisor teeth on each side of the jaw: includes the opossums and bandicoots
  • postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
  • potty trained — Potty trained means the same as toilet trained.
  • powder monkey — (formerly) a boy employed on warships to carry gunpowder from the magazine to the guns.
  • predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
  • predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • pride and joy — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
  • property bond — a bond issued by a life-assurance company, the premiums for which are invested in a property-owning fund
  • psychodynamic — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
  • pycnidiospore — the fruiting body of certain fungi, which contains spore-bearing cells
  • pycnoconidium — a pycnidiospore
  • scoping study — a preliminary study to define the scope of a project
  • shetland pony — one of a breed of small but sturdy, rough-coated ponies, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
  • spider monkey — any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having a slender body, long, slender limbs, and a long, prehensile tail: some are endangered.
  • spiny dogfish — any of several dogfish sharks of the genus Squalus, having a spine in front of each of the two dorsal fins, especially S. acanthias, inhabiting Atlantic coastal waters.
  • spondylolysis — the destruction of the vertebra
  • sporting lady — a prostitute.
  • spotted hyena — a long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal native to Africa and S Asia (Crocuta crocuta)
  • superordinary — that is superior to the ordinary
  • transportedly — in a passionate or rapturous manner
  • underemployed — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
  • unsupportedly — in an unsupported fashion, without support
  • upon my word! — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
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