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13-letter words containing p, y, a, t

  • quality press — the more serious newspapers which give detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
  • quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
  • radioteletype — Also called radioteletypewriter [rey-dee-oh-tel-i-tahyp-rahy-ter, -tel-i-tahyp-rahy-] /ˌreɪ di oʊˌtɛl ɪˈtaɪpˌraɪ tər, -ˈtɛl ɪ taɪpˌraɪ-/ (Show IPA). a teletypewriter equipped for transmitting or receiving messages by radio instead of wire.
  • raiding party — a group of people who together carry out a raid
  • real property — an estate or property consisting of lands and of all appurtenances to lands, as buildings, crops, or mineral rights (distinguished from personal property).
  • reciprocality — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
  • rectipetality — the tendency of growing in a straight line
  • repairability — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
  • repeatability — to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
  • repetitionary — of the nature of repetition, repetitious
  • replicability — the quality or state of being replicable
  • richard petty — Richard, born 1937, U.S. racing-car driver.
  • rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
  • saint-exupery — Antoine de [ahn-twan duh] /ɑ̃ˈtwan də/ (Show IPA), 1900–45, French author and aviator.
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • salpingostomy — the formation of an artificial opening into a Fallopian tube.
  • sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
  • secretaryship — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
  • septisyllable — a word made up of seven syllables.
  • shetland pony — one of a breed of small but sturdy, rough-coated ponies, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
  • shock therapy — (not in technical use) any of various therapies, as insulin shock therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, that induce convulsions or unconsciousness, used for symptomatic relief in certain mental disorders.
  • slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
  • solitary wasp — any of numerous wasps, as the sand wasps or mud wasps, that do not live in a community.
  • somatopsychic — of or relating to the effects of the body on the mind.
  • sophistically — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
  • sparcsystem 4 — (computer)   A computer built with the MicroSPARC ii 70MHz CPU as used in the SPARC 5 Model 70. The SPARCsystem 4 is basically a cheaper, cut-down SPARC 5. It has an 8-bit pixel accelerator instead of the SBus Turbo GX card. Memory expansion is limited to 160 MB. Availability was planned for March/April 1995.
  • spathiphyllum — any of various tropical plants of the genus Spathiphyllum, having a white or green spathe and a spike of fragrant flowers and often cultivated as an ornamental.
  • speaking type — a device on a medal or coin that has a punning reference to a person or thing.
  • spectacularly — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
  • spectral type — a category for classifying a star, as A star or G star, according to features of its spectrum, as its shape as a function of temperature and wavelength and its absorption spectrum, that indicate the surface temperature of the star and the presence of particular atoms or molecules in its outer layers: principal types are spectral types O, B, A, F, G, K, and M.
  • spectrography — a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
  • speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
  • speleotherapy — a form of treatment for asthma sufferers that takes place in clinics in disused mines, in which the air is free of pollen, dust mites, and the other irritants that provoke an allergic reaction; used to reduce the risk of heart disease
  • spenta mainyu — the good and creative spirit that is the offspring of Ahura Mazda.
  • spermatophyte — any of the Spermatophyta, a primary division or group of plants comprising those that bear seeds.
  • spoiler party — a third political party formed to draw votes away from one of the two major parties, thus spoiling its chance of winning an election.
  • spontaneously — coming or resulting from a natural impulse or tendency; without effort or premeditation; natural and unconstrained; unplanned: a spontaneous burst of applause.
  • sporting lady — a prostitute.
  • spotted hyena — a long-legged carnivorous doglike mammal native to Africa and S Asia (Crocuta crocuta)
  • spreadability — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
  • spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
  • spy satellite — an orbiting satellite used to carry out surveillance of an enemy country or military formations from space
  • stargazey pie — a Cornish fish pie served with the head of the fish protruding through the crust
  • state of play — current situation
  • state prayers — prayers for the sovereign, the royal family, the clergy, and Parliament said at matins and evensong
  • staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
  • steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
  • stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • stock company — Finance. a company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.
  • stomatoplasty — plastic surgery of the mouth or the cervix.
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