13-letter words containing p, a, r, m, y, l
- minor penalty — a penalty consisting of the removal of a player from play for two minutes, no substitute for the player being permitted.
- morality play — an allegorical form of the drama current from the 14th to 16th centuries and employing such personified abstractions as Virtue, Vice, Greed, Gluttony, etc.
- morphemically — By means of, or in terms, of morphemes.
- multipartyism — a political system in which two or more political parties contest elections
- multipolarity — The condition of being multipolar.
- myringoplasty — (surgery) The closure of the perforation of pars tensa of the tympanic membrane.
- normally-open — Normally-open switch contacts are in an open state at rest.
- paranormality — the state of being paranormal
- parliamentary — of or relating to a parliament or any of its members.
- pepper family — the plant family Piperaceae, characterized by tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having simple leaves, dense spikes of very small flowers, and fleshy, berrylike fruit, and including peperomia and peppers of the genus Piper.
- perilymphatic — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
- play for time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
- polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
- polyoma virus — a small DNA-containing virus, of the papovavirus group, that can produce a variety of tumors in mice, hamsters, rabbits, and rats.
- polyribosomal — relating to a polyribosome
- polysomnogram — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
- 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.
- pragmatically — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
- predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
- predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- preliminarily — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- primary color — Art. a color, as red, yellow, or blue, that in mixture yields other colors. Compare complementary color (def 1), secondary color, tertiary color.
- primary metal — metal derived directly from ore rather than from scrap.
- primary xylem — xylem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
- primordiality — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- priority mail — (in the U.S. Postal Service) mail consisting of merchandise weighing more than 12 ounces sent at first-class rates.
- prismatically — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- promotability — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
- river lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis; a jawless fish
- sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
- slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- sumptuary law — a law regulating personal habits that offend the moral or religious beliefs of the community.
- supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
- symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
- york imperial — an American variety of yellow or green apple with red stripes.