13-letter words containing p, s, a, m, o
- commandership — a person who commands.
- compactedness — the state of being compacted
- companies act — (in Britain) any of various laws that govern the formation, dissolution, and management of companies
- companion set — a set of fire irons on a stand
- companionless — Without a companion; friendless, alone.
- companionship — Companionship is having someone you know and like with you, rather than being on your own.
- companionways — Plural form of companionway.
- company store — a retail store operated by a company for the convenience of the employees, who are required to buy from the store.
- comparativist — a comparatist
- compare notes — to exchange opinions
- compas pascal — The predecessor of Turbo Pascal, sol by POLY Data of Denmark. It was later renamed POLY Pascal, and afterward sold to Borland.
- compass north — magnetic north, as indicated on a particular compass at a given moment.
- compass plane — a plane for smoothing curved surfaces.
- compass plant — a tall plant, Silphium laciniatum, of central North America, that has yellow flowers and lower leaves that tend to align themselves at right angles to the strongest light, esp in a north-south plane: family Asteraceae (composites)
- compass point — A compass point is one of the 32 marks on the dial of a compass that show direction, for example north, south, east, and west.
- compassionate — If you describe someone or something as compassionate, you mean that they feel or show pity, sympathy, and understanding for people who are suffering.
- compatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compatibilist — (philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting compatibilism, the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compatriotism — a native or inhabitant of one's own country; fellow countryman or countrywoman.
- compensations — Plural form of compensation.
- complacencies — a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.
- complaisantly — (archaic) In a complaisant manner; obligingly.
- complications — Plural form of complication.
- compositional — Compositional refers to the way composers and artists use their skills or techniques in their work.
- compressional — relating to compression
- compromisable — Capable of being compromised.
- compsognathus — any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the genus Compsognathus, of late Jurassic age, having a slender body that reached a length of 30 inches (76 cm).
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- contemplatist — a contemplator
- contemplators — Plural form of contemplator.
- copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
- corporativism — corporatism
- cosmopolitans — Plural form of cosmopolitan.
- costume party — A costume party or costume ball is a party at which the guests try to look like famous people or people from history, from stories, or from particular professions.
- crash program — a plan of action entailing rapid and intensive production, growth, or the like, undertaken to meet a deadline or solve a pressing problem: a crash program to develop a new fighter plane.
- decompensated — Simple past tense and past participle of decompensate.
- decompensates — Psychology. to lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
- dermatophytes — Plural form of dermatophyte.
- dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
- dermographism — dermatographia.
- diageotropism — a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity
- dipsomaniacal — Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
- dodecaphonism — musical composition using the 12-tone technique.
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- dynamic scope — (language) In a dynamically scoped language, e.g. most versions of Lisp, an identifier can be referred to, not only in the block where it is declared, but also in any function or procedure called from within that block, even if the called procedure is declared outside the block. This can be implemented as a simple stack of (identifier, value) pairs, accessed by searching down from the top of stack for the most recent instance of a given identifier. The opposite is lexical scope. A common implementation of dynamic scope is shallow binding.
- eccremocarpus — any plant of the evergreen climbing genus Eccremocarpus, esp E. scaber, grown for its decorative pinnate foliage and bright orange-red bell flowers: family Bignoniaceae
- emancipations — Plural form of emancipation.
- emphysematous — (medicine) Related, similar to or involving emphysema; swollen, bloated.
- enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
- encompassable — Capable of being encompassed.