13-letter words containing p, a, i, n, s
- isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
- japanese chin — one of a Japanese breed of toy dogs having a long, silky, black and white or red and white coat and a tail carried over the back.
- japanese iris — a plant, Iris kaempferi, native to Japan, having broad, showy flowers in a variety of colors.
- japanese mink — a dark-brown arboreal marten, Martes melampus, native to Japan, having a long body and bushy tail.
- japanese silk — raw silk of usually high quality produced in Japan, used in the manufacture of such fabrics as shantung and habutai.
- jasperization — The act or process of jasperizing.
- joseph stalin — Joseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
- judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
- juxtaposition — an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- kidney-shaped — having the general shape of a long oval indented at one side; reniform: a kidney-shaped swimming pool.
- kinesipathist — someone who uses kinesipathy to treat diseases
- kinesitherapy — a movement-based therapy
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- landing speed — the minimum air speed at which an aircraft lands safely
- landing strip — airstrip.
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- laryngoscopic — Of or pertaining to laryngoscopy.
- laser pointer — a portable laser that emits monochromatic light over a long and narrow distance, used especially as a pointing device.
- laser printer — Computers. a high-speed printer that uses a laser to form dot-matrix patterns and an electrostatic process to fuse metallic particles to paper a page at a time: capable of producing a variety of character fonts, graphics, and other symbols.
- lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- librarianship — a profession concerned with acquiring and organizing collections of books and related materials in libraries and servicing readers and others with these resources.
- license plate — a plate or tag, usually of metal, bearing evidence of official registration and permission, as for the use of a motor vehicle.
- lunar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- lymphadenitis — inflammation of a lymphatic gland.
- lymphangiomas — Plural form of lymphangioma.
- magnetooptics — the branch of physics that deals with magnetooptic phenomena.
- maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
- mainz psalter — a book printed by Johannes Gutenberg: thought by some to be the first book printed from movable type.
- make position — the situation in which a short vowel may be regarded as long, that is, when it occurs before two or more consonants
- malabsorption — faulty absorption of nutritive material from the intestine.
- manipulations — Plural form of manipulation.
- manipulatives — influencing or attempting to influence the behavior or emotions of others for one’s own purposes: a manipulative boss.
- mansplanation — Also called mansplanation [man-spluh-ney-shuh n] /ˌmæn spləˈneɪ ʃən/ (Show IPA). such an explanation given to someone, usually a woman.
- mantis shrimp — any stomatopod crustacean having a pair of appendages modified for grasping prey and resembling those of a mantis.
- marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
- masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
- mastigophoran — Also, mastigophore [mas-ti-guh-fawr, -fohr] /ˈmæs tɪ gəˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr/ (Show IPA). a protozoan of the phylum Mastigophora.
- mean-spirited — petty; small-minded; ungenerous: a meanspirited man, unwilling to forgive.
- measuring cup — a graduated cup used especially in cooking for measuring ingredients.
- megasporangia — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- merchant ship — law: commercial vessel
- mesencephalic — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- metaphysician — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
- metropolitans — Plural form of metropolitan.
- miami springs — a town in SE Florida, near Miami.
- micropayments — Plural form of micropayment.