13-letter words containing s, e, r, p, n
- plane spotter — a person who observes, photographs, and catalogues aircraft as a hobby
- planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
- plasma screen — A plasma screen is a type of thin television screen or computer screen that produces high-quality images.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
- plunket nurse — a child-care nurse appointed by the Plunket Society
- pluripresence — presence in more than one place at the same time
- plus juncture — open juncture.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- polar nucleus — Botany. either of two female haploid nuclei, in the embryo sac of flowers, that fuse to produce a diploid nucleus, which combines with a male nucleus to form the endosperm.
- polliniferous — Botany. producing or bearing pollen.
- porcelaineous — like porcelain
- porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
- possessionary — of, relating to, or characterized by possession
- post-consumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
- postemergence — occurring or applied after emergence of a plant from the soil and before full growth: postemergence frost.
- postemergency — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after an emergency
- posterization — a process for producing a posterlike, high-contrast color reproduction from continuous-tone art by using separation negatives of various densities.
- posting error — an error made while carrying over an entry from a journal to a ledger
- postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- postmodernism — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, especially a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity.
- postmodernist — relating to late 20th-century art movement
- postrecession — occurring or existing in the period after a recession
- postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
- posttreatment — an act or manner of treating.
- power station — a generating station.
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- powerlessness — unable to produce an effect: a disease against which modern medicine is virtually powerless.
- practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
- prague spring — a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.
- pre-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
- pre-existence — to exist beforehand.
- pre-provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- pre-sintering — (in powder metallurgy) to heat (a compact) in preparation for sintering.
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
- preantiseptic — (especially of surgery) noting that period of time before the adoption of the principles of antisepsis (about 1867).
- precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
- predesignated — to designate beforehand.
- predestinated — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
- predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- prediscussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- predistortion — preemphasis.
- prefix syntax — prefix notation
- preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.