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13-letter words containing o, u, t, s, p, e

  • open-and-shut — immediately obvious upon consideration; easily decided: an open-and-shut case of murder.
  • opportuneness — The state or condition of being opportune.
  • opportunities — Plural form of opportunity.
  • optical mouse — (hardware)   Any kind of mouse that uses visible light or infrared to detect changes in its position.
  • ostreophagous — oyster-eating
  • outperformers — Plural form of outperformer.
  • outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
  • outspokenness — The quality of being outspoken; bluntness; frankness; candour.
  • overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • pan-teutonism — Pan-Germanism.
  • parnell shout — a social occasion where each person in a group pays for his or her own entertainment or meal
  • parthenopaeus — a son of Hippomenes and Atalanta, and one of the Seven against Thebes.
  • passe-partout — something that passes everywhere or provides a universal means of passage.
  • pentadelphous — (of a plant) having its stamens arranged in five groups; (of stamens) being arranged in five groups
  • pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
  • percussionist — a musician who plays percussion instruments.
  • perlustration — the act of perlustrating; a thorough inspection or survey, esp of letters for purposes of surveillance
  • perscrutation — a very careful exploration or inspection
  • petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
  • phosphuretted — treated or combined with phosphorus
  • plastoquinone — a quinone that occurs in the chloroplasts of plants and functions as an electron carrier during photosynthesis.
  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • pleasure boat — recreational vessel
  • plectopterous — of or relating to the order Plectoptera, containing mayflies
  • plenitudinous — characterized or marked by plenitude.
  • pleurisy root — a North American milkweed, Asclepias tuberosa, whose root was used as a remedy for pleurisy.
  • plumbosolvent — able to dissolve lead
  • pneumatolysis — the process by which rocks are altered or minerals and ores are formed by the action of vapors given off by magma.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
  • point success — a peak in W central Washington, to the S of Mount Rainier, in the Cascade Range.14,158 feet (4318 meters).
  • 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-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.
  • postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
  • postdebutante — following the stage of being a debutante
  • postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • postpubescent — a young person in his or her early teens.
  • poult-de-soie — a soft, ribbed silk fabric, used especially for dresses.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
  • pretentiously — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
  • price support — the maintenance of the price of a commodity, product, etc., especially by means of a public subsidy or government purchase of surpluses.
  • profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
  • proper subset — a subset that excludes at least one member of the containing set
  • prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
  • proteinaceous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
  • pseudo-poetic — of or relating to a poet or poets.
  • pseudoaquatic — not aquatic but indigenous to moist regions.
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