13-letter words containing s, e, m, i, p, l
- nerve impulse — a progressive wave of electric and chemical activity along a nerve fiber that stimulates or inhibits the action of a muscle, gland, or other nerve cell.
- nucleoplasmic — Of or pertaining to nucleoplasm.
- olympic games — international sports event
- omnipresently — In an omnipresent manner.
- optical mouse — (hardware) Any kind of mouse that uses visible light or infrared to detect changes in its position.
- 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.
- paterfamilias — the male head of a household or family, usually the father.
- peripheralism — the explanation of psychological events emphasizing peripheral human functions, as those of skeletal muscles or the sex organs, rather than cognition or other processes of the central nervous system.
- persian melon — a round variety of muskmelon having a green, reticulate, unribbed rind and orange flesh.
- phalansterism — a model of society in which members of a community live in the same space and share common belongings
- phenomenalism — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
- philhellenism — a friend or supporter of the Greeks.
- physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
- piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
- pilaster mass — an engaged pier, usually plain, used as a buttress.
- plasma engine — an engine that generates thrust by reaction to the emission of a jet of plasma
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- playing games — If you say that someone is playing games or playing silly games, you mean that they are not treating a situation seriously and you are annoyed with them.
- plimsoll line — load line (def 1).
- pneumatolysis — the process by which rocks are altered or minerals and ores are formed by the action of vapors given off by magma.
- poliomyelitis — an acute viral disease, usually affecting children and young adults, caused by any of three polioviruses, characterized by inflammation of the motor neurons of the brain stem and spinal cord, and resulting in a motor paralysis, followed by muscular atrophy and often permanent deformities.
- polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
- pre-eclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
- 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.
- presumptively — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
- promised land — Heaven.
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- republicanism — republican government.
- rumble strips — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- selenotropism — growth in response to moonlight.
- self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
- self-improver — improvement of one's mind, character, etc., through one's own efforts.
- 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.
- simple minded — free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated.
- simple-minded — free of deceit or guile; artless or unsophisticated.
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- sphingomyelin — any of the class of phospholipids occurring chiefly in the brain and spinal cord, composed of phosphoric acid, choline, sphingosine, and a fatty acid.
- spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).