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

  • polygamophile — a person who approves of or countenances polygamy, especially as practiced by others.
  • polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
  • polytechnical — relating to a technical school
  • poor relation — If you describe one thing as a poor relation of another, you mean that it is similar to or part of the other thing, but is considered to be inferior to it.
  • poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • port adelaide — the chief port of South Australia, near Adelaide on St Vincent Gulf. Pop: 33 145 (2006)
  • portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
  • position line — line of position.
  • possibilities — the state or fact of being possible: the possibility of error.
  • postepileptic — after an epileptic seizure
  • poult-de-soie — a soft, ribbed silk fabric, used especially for dresses.
  • powdered milk — dry milk.
  • power failure — electricity outage
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • pre-disclosed — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
  • pre-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
  • precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
  • predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
  • predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
  • prelitigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
  • premonitorily — in a premonitory manner
  • prepositional — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
  • prerevolution — of the period before a revolution
  • prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
  • press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
  • prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
  • pretelevision — occurring before the arrival of television
  • pretentiously — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
  • prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
  • prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
  • price control — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
  • primum mobile — (in Ptolemaic astronomy) the outermost of the 10 concentric spheres of the universe, making a complete revolution every 24 hours and causing all the others to do likewise.
  • print spooler — a program that sequences printing jobs by temporarily storing data in a buffer and processing the jobs sequentially.
  • private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
  • pro-celebrity — (of a golf tournament, snooker tournament, etc) involving both professional players and celebrities
  • problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • procreational — having the potential to procreate
  • progenitorial — characteristic of a progenitor
  • progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
  • progressively — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
  • prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
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