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13-letter words containing s, a, m, p, l

  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • preliminaries — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
  • premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
  • primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
  • primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
  • prismatically — of, relating to, or like a prism.
  • problem state — IBM jargon for user mode, the opposite of "supervisor state". On IBM System 360, 370 and 390 mainframes privileged instructions may only be executed in "supervisor state". Application programs request the operating system to perform these operations by using the Supervisor Call (SVC) instruction.
  • promised land — Heaven.
  • proposal form — a form filled out by a person applying for insurance
  • protanomalous — of, relating to, or affected by protanomaly
  • proverbialism — a proverbial expression
  • provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
  • prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
  • psammophilous — living or growing in sand
  • pusillanimity — the state or condition of being pusillanimous; timidity; cowardliness.
  • pusillanimous — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
  • random sample — a statistical sample that is devised to avoid interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • salpingostomy — the formation of an artificial opening into a Fallopian tube.
  • sample letter — an example of a particular type of letter intended to show people how to construct their own letter
  • sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • scapulimantic — relating to scapulimancy
  • scripturalism — the state of being scriptural or adhering to the Scriptures when translating or writing
  • self-pampered — to treat or gratify with extreme or excessive indulgence, kindness, or care: to pamper a child; to pamper one's stomach.
  • semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
  • semiempirical — partly empirical
  • semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
  • semipalmation — the state of being semipalmate
  • semipermeable — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
  • 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.
  • sheep measles — a disease of sheep caused by infestation by the cysticerci of a dog tapeworm (Taenia ovis)
  • shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
  • shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
  • shopping mall — mall (def 1).
  • simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
  • sinumbra lamp — an unshaded sperm-oil lamp consisting of a translucent glass globe supported on a pedestal: a form of astral lamp.
  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
  • small capital — a capital letter of a particular font, the same height as the x-high letters.
  • somar dumpacl — (tool)   A utilty which provides a concise report of Windows NT file system permissions, to help find holes in system security.
  • spasmodically — given to or characterized by bursts of excitement.
  • 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.
  • speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
  • spermatoblast — a reproductive cell
  • spinal column — the series of vertebrae in a vertebrate animal forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; spine; backbone.
  • splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
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