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13-letter words containing s, a, n, l, o

  • postcanonical — written at a later date than the books belonging to a canon, especially the Bible.
  • postconciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
  • postcranially — affecting the postcranium
  • postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
  • postisolation — following a period of isolation
  • postlapsarian — occurring or being after the Fall.
  • postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • postulational — to ask, demand, or claim.
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
  • prepositional — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
  • progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
  • promised land — Heaven.
  • propositional — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
  • prostaglandin — Biochemistry. any of a class of unsaturated fatty acids that are involved in the contraction of smooth muscle, the control of inflammation and body temperature, and many other physiological functions.
  • protanomalous — of, relating to, or affected by protanomaly
  • provincialise — to make provincial in character.
  • provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
  • provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
  • provisionally — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
  • psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
  • psychoanalyst — a person trained to practice psychoanalysis.
  • psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
  • pusillanimous — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • racialisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of racialization.
  • radiationless — not emitting or producing radiation
  • radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
  • rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
  • 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
  • rationalistic — the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
  • ray tomlinson — (person)   An engineer at Bolt Beranek and Newman who, in July 1972 while designing the first[?] electronic mail program, chose the commercial at symbol "@" to separate the user name from the computer name.
  • re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
  • read a lesson — to censure or reprimand, esp in a long-winded manner
  • real soon now — (jargon, humour)   (RSN) A phrase used ironically when you believe an event will take a long or unknown time to occur. The term originated in SF's fanzine community, popularised by Jerry Pournelle's column in BYTE. The phrase can be used, for example, when a manager asks how long it will take you to debug some software and you have no idea. "I'll have it working Real Soon Now."
  • reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
  • reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
  • regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • relay station — a radio station that receives radio signals and retransmits them, in order to extend their range
  • remonstrantly — in a remonstrant or opposing manner
  • restimulation — the act or process of stimulating again; reactivation
  • resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • retranslation — the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.
  • revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
  • rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
  • ribosomal rna — a type of RNA, distinguished by its length and abundance, functioning in protein synthesis as a component of ribosomes. Abbreviation: rRNA.
  • rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
  • roanoke bells — a wild plant, Mertensia virginica, of the borage family, native to the eastern U.S., grown as a garden plant for its handsome, nodding clusters of blue flowers.
  • robben island — a small island in South Africa, 11 km (7 miles) off the Cape Peninsula: formerly used by the South African government to house political prisoners
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