13-letter words containing o, p, e, i, d, s
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
- lepidopterist — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
- lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
- medicine shop — (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines
- mine disposal — the removal, disarming, or destruction of explosive mines
- miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
- mispositioned — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- mispronounced — Said wrongly.
- misredemption — illegal or fraudulent traffic in consumer product coupons, including mail theft and counterfeiting.
- moderatorship — The position or office of a moderator.
- needle biopsy — the removal of a small amount of tissue or cellular material with a long hollow surgical needle, performed for diagnostic purposes.
- neuropeptides — Plural form of neuropeptide.
- nitroprusside — (inorganic chemistry) Any salt, of the hypothetical nitroprussic acid, that contains a pentacyanonitrosylferrate anion.
- nonadsorptive — Not adsorptive.
- nondeposition — the failure to deposit
- nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
- nondispersive — not dispersive
- nondisposable — Not disposable.
- nondisruptive — causing, tending to cause, or caused by disruption; disrupting: the disruptive effect of their rioting.
- nonprescribed — Not prescribed.
- nucleocapsids — Plural form of nucleocapsid.
- oligopeptides — Plural form of oligopeptide.
- open diapason — a full, rich outpouring of melodious sound.
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- 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
- over-promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- overimpressed — very impressed
- paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
- painted horse — paint (def 6).
- paradise lost — an epic poem (1667) by John Milton.
- periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
- periodontitis — inflammation of the periodontium caused by bacteria that infect the roots of teeth and the surrounding gum crevices, producing bleeding, pus formation, and gradual loss of bone and the tissues that support the teeth. Compare pyorrhea (def 2).
- periodontosis — rapidly advancing juvenile periodontitis.
- perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
- philo judaeus — c20 b.c.–a.d. c50, Alexandrian Jewish theologian and philosopher.
- 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.
- physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
- piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
- plenitudinous — characterized or marked by plenitude.
- polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
- polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
- poor-spirited — having or showing a poor, cowardly, or abject spirit.
- posix threads — (programming) (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
- post meridiem — p.m.
- post-actinide — transactinide
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- 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
- poult-de-soie — a soft, ribbed silk fabric, used especially for dresses.