13-letter words containing o, l, i, p
- primary color — Art. a color, as red, yellow, or blue, that in mixture yields other colors. Compare complementary color (def 1), secondary color, tertiary color.
- primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- primordiality — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- 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.
- principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
- print spooler — a program that sequences printing jobs by temporarily storing data in a buffer and processing the jobs sequentially.
- priority mail — (in the U.S. Postal Service) mail consisting of merchandise weighing more than 12 ounces sent at first-class rates.
- 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
- privy council — a board or select body of personal advisers, as of a sovereign.
- pro-abolition — the act of abolishing: the abolition of war.
- pro-celebrity — (of a golf tournament, snooker tournament, etc) involving both professional players and celebrities
- probabilistic — Statistics. of or relating to probability: probabilistic forecasting.
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- procapitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
- procreational — having the potential to procreate
- producibility — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- profitability — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- 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.
- proleptically — anticipatorily
- proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
- proliferously — by proliferation
- prolification — the production of offspring
- promiscuously — characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis.
- promised land — Heaven.
- promotability — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- pronominalize — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- propositional — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
- propraetorial — of, or relating to, a propraetor
- proprietarily — belonging to a proprietor.
- proprietorial — the owner of a business establishment, a hotel, etc.
- prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- prostaglandin — Biochemistry. any of a class of unsaturated fatty acids that are involved in the contraction of smooth muscle, the control of inflammation and body temperature, and many other physiological functions.
- proteoclastic — of, related to, or initiating proteolysis
- proto-elamite — the indigenous script of Elam, found on inscriptions and tablets from the fourth millennium b.c.
- protriptyline — a white to yellow powder, C 1 9 H 2 1 N, used for the treatment of depression.
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- proverbialize — to use in a proverbial way
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
- provinciality — provincial character.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- provisionally — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- provocational — the act of provoking.