13-letter words containing p, o, i, e, s
- selenotropism — growth in response to moonlight.
- self-exposing — to lay open to danger, attack, harm, etc.: to expose soldiers to gunfire; to expose one's character to attack.
- self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.
- self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
- selling point — a unique or advantageous feature that appeals to the prospective buyer of a service, product, etc.: A generous discount is the chief selling point of the book club.
- semi-precious — Semi-precious stones are stones such as turquoises and amethysts that are used in jewellery but are less valuable than precious stones such as diamonds and rubies.
- semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
- semioviparous — bearing young in an incomplete state of development, as a marsupial.
- semipalmation — the state of being semipalmate
- semipolitical — of a partially political nature; having some political features.
- semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
- septentrional — northern; boreal
- septentriones — the seven stars of the Plough, the Great Bear
- serendipitous — come upon or found by accident; fortuitous: serendipitous scientific discoveries.
- serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
- serviceperson — a person who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- serving spoon — utensil used to serve food
- sexploitation — the exploitation of sex in films, magazines, etc.
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- sheep station — a large sheep farm
- ship of state — a nation or its affairs likened to a ship under sail.
- ship's stores — a retail store aboard a navy ship that sells toiletries, cigarettes, etc., to the ship's personnel.
- ship-to-shore — operating between a ship and the shore: a ship-to-shore radio.
- shirley poppy — a cultivated strain of the corn poppy, having variously colored single or double flowers.
- shoe repairer — a person who mends shoes
- sigmoidoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope for visual examination of the rectum and sigmoid colon.
- sign of peace — the liturgical practice of giving a sign of peace, union, or friendship, as a handshake or embrace, at some point in a Christian service, esp. in a Mass or Communion service
- silver polish — a type of polishing medium that is suitable for silver
- silver poplar — white poplar (def 1).
- sino-japanese — having to do with both China and Japan
- siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
- skipping rope — A skipping rope or skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it round and round and jumping over it.
- skipping-rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- social gospel — a movement in America, chiefly in the early part of the 20th century, stressing the social teachings of Jesus and their applicability to public life.
- solar 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.
- sophisticated — sophisticated.
- souvenir shop — a shop that sells trivial gift items, such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, keyrings etc, esp aimed at tourists
- space biology — exobiology.
- space fiction — a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space
- space station — an orbiting manned structure that can be used for a variety of purposes, as to assemble or service satellites, refuel spacecraft, etc.
- space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
- spark erosion — a method of machining using a shaped electrode which erodes the workpiece by an electric spark discharge between itself and the workpiece
- special offer — bargain
- special order — A special order is an extra order or an order for an item specially requested by a customer.
- special-order — to obtain by specific individual order: to special-order a dining-room chandelier.
- specification — the act of specifying.