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

  • orchestra pit — musicians' seating in front of stage
  • orchestra-pit — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
  • orthographies — Plural form of orthography.
  • osteophytosis — Lb medicine The presence of osteophytes.
  • ostreophagous — oyster-eating
  • over-shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
  • painted horse — paint (def 6).
  • palos heights — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
  • parasyntheton — a word formed by parasynthesis; for example, kind-hearted
  • 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.
  • parthenospore — a spore developed without fertilization.
  • pass the word — If you pass the word, you tell someone something that another person has told you.
  • 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
  • petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
  • phelloplastic — an image or a representation that has been fashioned from cork
  • phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
  • phosphoretted — combined with phosphorus, especially in its lowest valence state.
  • phosphorylate — to introduce the phosphoryl group into (an organic compound).
  • phosphuretted — treated or combined with phosphorus
  • photocomposer — a machine for setting type photographically.
  • photoemission — photoelectric effect.
  • photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
  • photophoresis — the move away from a strong light source by previously suspended particles in a gas
  • photopositive — pertaining to a substance whose conductivity increases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
  • photosynthate — a compound formed by photosynthesis.
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • physiotherapy — physical therapy.
  • physostigmine — an alkaloid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease to raise the level of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and also as a miotic in glaucoma.
  • phytocoenosis — the plants of a given area considered as a whole.
  • phytoestrogen — an estrogen-like compound occurring naturally in plants of the legume family and in grains, vegetables, and fruits.
  • piece of shit — despicable person
  • plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
  • polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • potato-masher — a kitchen implement used to crush or mash potatoes
  • preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
  • premonishment — a forewarning
  • presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
  • primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
  • prosectorship — the position or responsibility of a prosector
  • protectorship — a person or thing that protects; defender; guardian.
  • protest march — public demonstration
  • psychogenetic — genesis of the psyche.
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