14-letter words containing o, p, s, e
- poppaea sabina — died a.d. 65? second wife of the Roman emperor Nero.
- popping crease — a line parallel to and in advance of a bowling crease, marking the limit of a batsman's approach in hitting the ball.
- popular singer — a professional singer who specializes in popular songs.
- porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- porgy and bess — an opera (1935) with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
- port st. lucie — a town in E Florida.
- porter's lodge — a room near the entrance of a public building such as a college, which is occupied by the porter
- portulacaceous — belonging to the Portulacaceae, the purslane family of plants.
- position angle — the direction in which one object lies relative to another on the celestial sphere, measured in degrees from north in an easterly direction
- position paper — a formal, usually detailed written statement, especially regarding a single issue, that articulates a position, viewpoint, or policy, as of a government, organization, or political candidate.
- positive organ — a small pipe organ of the Middle Ages.
- possessionless — having no possessions
- possessiveness — jealously opposed to the personal independence of, or to any influence other than one's own upon, a child, spouse, etc.
- possible world — (in modal logic) a semantic device formalizing the notion of what the world might have been like. A statement is necessarily true if and only if it is true in every possible world
- post operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- post-cartesian — of or relating to Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, especially with regard to its emphasis on logical analysis and its mechanistic interpretation of physical nature.
- post-modernism — Post-modernism is a late twentieth century approach in art, architecture, and literature which typically mixes styles, ideas, and references to modern society, often in an ironic way.
- post-modernist — A post-modernist is a writer, artist, or architect who is influenced by post-modernism.
- post-operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- post-pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
- post-treatment — an act or manner of treating.
- postadolescent — growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- postcollegiate — denoting something that takes place after college or among those that are no longer at college
- postconception — happening after conception
- postconvention — taking place after a convention
- postdepression — pertaining to or denoting the period after an economic depression
- postdeterminer — a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, including ordinal and cardinal numbers, that may be placed after an article or other determiner and before a descriptive adjective, as first and three in the first three new chapters.
- poste restante — a direction written on mail to indicate that it should be held at the post office until called for by the addressee.
- posterolateral — situated both laterally and at the posterior
- postexperience — taking place after a particular experience
- posthumousness — the fact of being posthumous
- postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
- postmastectomy — of or relating to the period after a mastectomy
- postmastership — the office or position of a postmaster
- postmenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- postmillennial — of or relating to the period following the millennium.
- postretirement — relating to or occurring in the period after retirement
- potbelly stove — a usually cast-iron wood- or coal-burning stove having a large, rounded chamber.
- pott's disease — caries of the bodies of the vertebrae, often resulting in marked curvature of the spine, and usually associated with a tuberculosis infection.
- potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
- potter's wheel — a device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
- potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
- pouilly fuissé — a dry white Burgundy wine made from the chardonnay grape
- pouilly-fuisse — a dry, white wine from Burgundy.
- pound of flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
- powdered sugar — a sugar produced by pulverizing granulated sugar, especially a coarser variety used for fruits or cold beverages. Symbol: XX.
- power dressing — a style of dressing in severely tailored suits, adopted by some women executives to project an image of efficiency