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

  • matripotestal — of or relating to the authority exercised by a mother or a mother's blood relatives.
  • metropolitans — Plural form of metropolitan.
  • microcapsules — Plural form of microcapsule.
  • microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
  • microscopical — so small as to be invisible or indistinct without the use of the microscope: microscopic organisms. Compare macroscopic.
  • misappraisals — Plural form of misappraisal.
  • moral compass — an internalized set of values and objectives that guide a person with regard to ethical behavior and decision-making: a rebellious teenager without a moral compass.
  • moral support — emotional assistance, encouragement
  • multipartisan — Relating to or supported by multiple groups, especially by multiple political parties.
  • multipartyism — a political system in which two or more political parties contest elections
  • multiple star — three or more stars lying close together in the celestial sphere and usually united in a single gravitational system.
  • multispectral — (of an airborne camera or scanner) capable of sensing and recording radiation from invisible as well as visible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • musculospiral — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; applied especially to a large nerve of the arm.
  • myringoplasty — (surgery) The closure of the perforation of pars tensa of the tympanic membrane.
  • nail clippers — tool for cutting finger- and toenails
  • nailing strip — a strip of wood or other partly yielding material attached to a hard surface, as of steel or concrete, so that objects may be nailed to the surface.
  • nanoparticles — Plural form of nanoparticle.
  • natural slope — the maximum angle at which soil will lie in a bank without slipping
  • ne plus ultra — the highest point; acme.
  • necrophiliacs — Plural form of necrophiliac.
  • non-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
  • opera glasses — small binoculars
  • oscillographs — Plural form of oscillograph.
  • oscillography — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
  • overappraisal — An appraisal that overvalues something.
  • overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • painterliness — the quality of being painterly
  • palaeocrystic — consisting of former glacial formation
  • paleosiberian — a group of languages comprising those languages of Siberia that are not affiliated with Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic, or Eskimo-Aleut and including the Chukotian family and the unrelated language isolates Ket, Nivkh, and Yukaghir; Paleo-Asiatic.
  • pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
  • pangola grass — a grass, Digitaria decumbens, native to southern Africa, cultivated for hay and forage in the southeastern U.S.
  • pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • papaprelatist — a supporter of papal prelates
  • paper-shelled — having a thin, easily broken shell: paper-shelled nuts.
  • paradigm plus — A configurable object-oriented CASE tool from Proto Soft.
  • paradise lost — an epic poem (1667) by John Milton.
  • parallel bars — (used with a plural verb) a gymnasium apparatus consisting of two wooden bars on uprights, adjustable in height, and used for swinging, vaulting, balancing exercises, etc.
  • parallelistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a parallelism.
  • paraphrasable — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
  • parapophysial — of or relating to a parapophysis
  • parasexuality — parasexual behaviour
  • parasitically — of, relating to, or characteristic of parasites.
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
  • parnell shout — a social occasion where each person in a group pays for his or her own entertainment or meal
  • parris island — a U.S. Marine Corps base, recruit depot, and training station in SE South Carolina, SW of Beaufort and S of Port Royal Island.
  • parrot's-bill — a showy, vinelike plant, Clianthus puniceus, of New Zealand, having clusters of eight white-streaked, crimson flowers.
  • parry islands — former name of the Queen Elizabeth Islands.
  • parsley piert — a small N temperate rosaceous plant, Aphanes arvensis, having fan-shaped leaves and small greenish flowers
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