13-letter words containing s, e, a, l, i, o
- obstetrically — (medicine) In terms of obstetrics.
- occidentalism — Occidental character or characteristics.
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- oil-based mud — Oil-based mud is a drilling fluid that is an emulsion containing oil as the base fluid.
- oilspot glaze — a brown or black ceramic glaze dotted with silvery spots caused by impurities.
- old-fashioned — of a style or kind that is no longer in vogue: an old-fashioned bathing suit.
- oligosiloxane — (organic chemistry) Any polysiloxane having a relatively small number of -Si-O- groups.
- olympic games — international sports event
- optical mouse — (hardware) Any kind of mouse that uses visible light or infrared to detect changes in its position.
- orchestralist — a person who writes or arranges orchestral music
- ordinal scale — a scale on which data is shown simply in order of magnitude since there is no standard of measurement of differences: for instance, a squash ladder is an ordinal scale since one can say only that one person is better than another, but not by how much
- organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
- originalities — Plural form of originality.
- ornamentalism — the desire or tendency to feature ornament in the design of buildings, interiors, furnishings, etc.
- ornamentalist — A person who ornaments.
- orsellic acid — an acid found in lichens
- orthogonalise — to make (vectors, functions, etc.) orthogonal.
- orthosilicate — a silicate mineral
- osteoplasties — Plural form of osteoplasty.
- outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
- overappraisal — An appraisal that overvalues something.
- oversocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- overstability — the state of being excessively stable
- overstimulate — to stimulate too much
- palaeocrystic — consisting of former glacial formation
- paleo-asiatic — a member of any of various Mongoloid peoples of northeastern Asia.
- 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.
- palos heights — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
- paradise lost — an epic poem (1667) by John Milton.
- passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
- patripotestal — Anthropology. of or relating to the authority exercised by a father or a father's blood relatives.
- peloponnesian — a peninsula forming the S part of Greece: seat of the early Mycenaean civilization and the powerful city-states of Argos, Sparta, etc. 8356 sq. mi. (21,640 sq. km).
- periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
- perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
- perlustration — the act of perlustrating; a thorough inspection or survey, esp of letters for purposes of surveillance
- persian melon — a round variety of muskmelon having a green, reticulate, unribbed rind and orange flesh.
- personalistic — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- personalities — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
- petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
- phelloplastic — an image or a representation that has been fashioned from cork
- phenomenalism — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
- philo judaeus — c20 b.c.–a.d. c50, Alexandrian Jewish theologian and philosopher.
- phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
- phospholipase — any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the breaking down of phospholipids.
- phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
- pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
- piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
- piss all over — to be far superior to
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.