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13-letter words containing p, l, a, s

  • provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
  • provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
  • provisionally — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
  • prudentialist — a person who acts prudentially
  • prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
  • psammophilous — living or growing in sand
  • pseudo-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
  • pseudoclassic — falsely or spuriously classic.
  • psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
  • psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
  • psychoanalyst — a person trained to practice psychoanalysis.
  • psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • psychological — of or relating to psychology.
  • psychotically — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
  • public access — the availability of noncommercial television and radio broadcasting facilities to community groups or members of the public for programs of general interest to the community, especially as a condition of cable television franchises.
  • pull a fastie — to play a sly trick
  • pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
  • pursuit plane — (formerly) an armed airplane designed for speed and maneuverability in fighting enemy aircraft.
  • pusillanimity — the state or condition of being pusillanimous; timidity; cowardliness.
  • pusillanimous — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • quality press — the more serious newspapers which give detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
  • quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
  • rail-splitter — a person or thing that splits logs into rails, especially for fences.
  • raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
  • random sample — a statistical sample that is devised to avoid interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population
  • real presence — the doctrine that the substance of the body and blood of Christ are present in the Eucharist.
  • rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
  • release print — Movies. print (def 31).
  • replenishable — able to be replenished
  • representable — to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • resting place — grave
  • reverse plate — a plate for printing a reverse.
  • rhaetian alps — a section of the central Alps along E Switzerland's borders with Austria and Italy. Highest peak: Piz Bernina, 4049 m (13 284 ft)
  • rupert's land — (formerly, in Canada) the territories granted by Charles II to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670 and ceded to the Canadian Government in 1870, comprising all the land watered by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay
  • sacral plexus — a nerve network originating from the nerves of the sacral spine and innervating large areas of the lower trunk and legs, especially via the sciatic nerves.
  • salad spinner — a utensil used for drying washed salad or vegetables that consists of a plastic basket inside a plastic bowl. The salad is placed in the basket and the outer bowl is then spun using a device such as a gear-operated handle or pull cord, and this spinning then separates water from the salad.
  • sales receipt — slip or document: proof of payment
  • saloon keeper — a person who owns or operates a saloon.
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • salpingostomy — the formation of an artificial opening into a Fallopian tube.
  • sample letter — an example of a particular type of letter intended to show people how to construct their own letter
  • sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
  • san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).
  • san pablo bay — the N part of San Francisco Bay, in W California.
  • sardanapalian — excessively luxurious or sensual.
  • satin slipper — a play (1925–28) by Paul Claudel.
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