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13-letter words containing p, m, a

  • pelham-holles — Thomas, 1st Duke of Newcastle, 1693–1768, British statesman: prime minister 1754–56, 1757–62 (brother of Henry Pelham).
  • penicillamine — a chelating agent, C 5 H 1 1 NO 2 S, produced by the degradation of penicillin, used in the treatment of severe rheumatoid arthritis and in heavy metal poisoning.
  • pentatonicism — the use of a five-tone scale.
  • penthemimeral — (of a caesura) occurring after the first penthemimer of a poetic line, i.e. in the middle of the third foot
  • penultimately — in penultimate position; lastly except for one
  • 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.
  • perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
  • perilymphatic — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
  • perimenopause — the period leading up to the menopause during which some of the symptoms associated with menopause may be experienced
  • peripheralism — the explanation of psychological events emphasizing peripheral human functions, as those of skeletal muscles or the sex organs, rather than cognition or other processes of the central nervous system.
  • permanent set — the change in shape of a material that results when the load to which it is subjected causes the elastic limit to be exceeded and is then removed
  • permanent way — the roadbed and track of a railroad.
  • persian melon — a round variety of muskmelon having a green, reticulate, unribbed rind and orange flesh.
  • petrochemical — a chemical substance obtained from petroleum or natural gas, as gasoline, kerosene, or petrolatum.
  • phalansterism — a model of society in which members of a community live in the same space and share common belongings
  • pham van dong — 1906–2000, Vietnamese political leader: prime minister of North Vietnam 1955–76 and of unified Vietnam 1976–86.
  • phantasmagory — phantasmagoria.
  • phantasmality — the condition or character of being incorporeal and illusory
  • phantom stock — an employee bonus expressed as the cash value of a specified amount of company stock to be received at a future date, meant to create employee interest in raising stock prices without giving any stock away.
  • pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
  • pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
  • pharmacologic — the science dealing with the preparation, uses, and especially the effects of drugs.
  • pharmacopoeia — a book published usually under the jurisdiction of the government and containing a list of drugs, their formulas, methods for making medicinal preparations, requirements and tests for their strength and purity, and other related information.
  • pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
  • phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
  • phenmetrazine — a compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO, used chiefly to control the appetite in the treatment of obesity.
  • phenomenalism — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • phenomenality — highly extraordinary or prodigious; exceptional: phenomenal speed.
  • phenomenalize — to regard or interpret as a phenomenon.
  • phenylmethane — toluene.
  • phonocamptics — the branch of acoustics dealing with echoes
  • photochemical — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light.
  • photodynamics — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
  • phototelegram — a telegram that is sent by means of phototelegraphy
  • phrase marker — (in generative grammar) a representation of the constituent structure of a sentence, using a tree diagram or labeled bracketing.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
  • phytochemical — Also called phytonutrient. any of various bioactive chemical compounds found in plants, as antioxidants, considered to be beneficial to human health.
  • pianississimo — (of a piece of music) to be played even more quietly or softly than pianissimo; abbreviated as ppp
  • pick up steam — If a belief, a plan, or a project picks up steam, it starts to develop and become more important.
  • pickup camper — camper (def 3).
  • picramic acid — a red, crystalline substance, C 6 H 5 N 3 O 5 , soluble in alcohol, used chiefly in the manufacture of azo dyes.
  • picture frame — mount for a picture
  • piece of meat — the flesh of animals as used for food.
  • piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
  • piezomagnetic — involving or relating to the production of a magnetic field by applying a mechanical stress to certain crystals
  • pilaster mass — an engaged pier, usually plain, used as a buttress.
  • piroplasmosis — babesiosis.
  • pivot grammar — a loose grammar said to govern two-word utterances by children
  • place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
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