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

point of sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
point shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
point success — a peak in W central Washington, to the S of Mount Rainier, in the Cascade Range.14,158 feet (4318 meters).
point-of-sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
point-shaving — (especially in basketball) the illegal practice, by one or more bribed players, of deliberately limiting the number of points scored to conform to the desires of corrupt gamblers.
pointillistic — pertaining to or characteristic of pointillism or pointillists.
points system — a system used to assess applicants' eligibility for local authority housing, based on (points awarded for) such factors as the length of time the applicant has lived in the area, how many children are in the family, etc
pole position — a position on the inside of the track in any race.
police escort — a police officer or vehicle which accompanies a prisoner
poliomyelitis — an acute viral disease, usually affecting children and young adults, caused by any of three polioviruses, characterized by inflammation of the motor neurons of the brain stem and spinal cord, and resulting in a motor paralysis, followed by muscular atrophy and often permanent deformities.
pollen basket — (of bees) a smooth area on the hind tibia of each leg fringed with long hairs and serving to transport pollen.
polyarteritis — inflammation of the layers of an artery or of many arteries, usually caused by a severe hypersensitivity reaction, and characterized by nodules and hemorrhage along the involved vessels.
polyarthritis — arthritis occurring in more than one joint.
polychotomous — divided into multiple parts
polycistronic — of or relating to the transcription of two or more adjacent cistrons into a single messenger RNA molecule.
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).
polythalamous — having multiple chambers
pommes frites — French fries
pompton lakes — a town in NE New Jersey.
pontificators — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
poor-spirited — having or showing a poor, cowardly, or abject spirit.
port du salut — Port-Salut.
port of spain — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.
port-of-spain — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.
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.
portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
position line — line of position.
positive sign — the sign (+) used to indicate a positive quantity
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).
possessionate — (of clergy or religious groups) having possessions or provisions
possibilities — the state or fact of being possible: the possibility of error.
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.
post feminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
post meridiem — p.m.
post-actinide — transactinide
post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
post-colonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
post-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
post-consumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
post-contract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
post-feminism — a way of thinking that develops, or reacts to or against previous feminist ideology
post-feminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
post-midnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
post-prandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
post-socratic — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
post-tertiary — denoting or formed after the Tertiary period of geological time
postage costs — the cost of having mail delivered

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