13-letter words containing o, p, t, e
- 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.
- poor-spirited — having or showing a poor, cowardly, or abject spirit.
- poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
- porkpie (hat) — a man's soft hat with a round, flat crown
- port adelaide — the chief port of South Australia, near Adelaide on St Vincent Gulf. Pop: 33 145 (2006)
- port colborne — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- port engineer — a person who is responsible for the maintenance and repair of the machinery of the vessels of a shipping line and for the supervision of its engineering personnel.
- port language — ["Communicating Parallel Processes", J. Kerridge et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(1):63-86 (Jan 1986)].
- port of entry — port1 (def 3).
- portal system — a vascular arrangement in which blood from the capillaries of one organ is transported to the capillaries of another organ by a connecting vein or veins.
- porte-cochere — a covered carriage entrance leading into a courtyard.
- porte-monnaie — a purse or pocketbook
- portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
- portrait mode — an orientation that is vertical rather than horizontal
- position line — line of position.
- positive sign — the sign (+) used to indicate a positive quantity
- 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).
- possessionate — (of clergy or religious groups) having possessions or provisions
- possibilities — the state or fact of being possible: the possibility of error.
- post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
- post feminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- post meridiem — p.m.
- post-actinide — transactinide
- post-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
- post-consumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- post-feminism — a way of thinking that develops, or reacts to or against previous feminist ideology
- post-feminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- 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.
- post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- post-tertiary — denoting or formed after the Tertiary period of geological time
- postage costs — the cost of having mail delivered
- postage meter — an office machine used in bulk mailing that imprints prepaid postage and a dated postmark.
- postage rates — the rates charged for the delivery of mail, depending on type, weight etc
- postage stamp — small adhesive label for mail
- postage-stamp — of very small area or size: a postage-stamp bikini.
- postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
- postdebutante — following the stage of being a debutante
- postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
- postemergence — occurring or applied after emergence of a plant from the soil and before full growth: postemergence frost.
- postemergency — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after an emergency
- postepileptic — after an epileptic seizure
- posterization — a process for producing a posterlike, high-contrast color reproduction from continuous-tone art by using separation negatives of various densities.
- postinfection — of, relating to or occurring in the period after infection
- posting error — an error made while carrying over an entry from a journal to a ledger
- postinjection — the act of injecting.
- postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- 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
- postoperative — occurring after a surgical operation.