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13-letter words containing s, p, a, c, e, l

  • non-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • nonspecialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
  • nucleocapsids — Plural form of nucleocapsid.
  • nucleoplasmic — Of or pertaining to nucleoplasm.
  • object pascal — (language)   An object-oriented Pascal developed jointly by Apple Computer and Niklaus Wirth.
  • olympic games — international sports event
  • opthalmoscope — Misspelling of ophthalmoscope.
  • optical mouse — (hardware)   Any kind of mouse that uses visible light or infrared to detect changes in its position.
  • overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • pact of steel — a military alliance concluded between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on May 22, 1939, committing each to assist the other in the event of war with another power and pledging that neither would seek a separate peace or armistice.
  • palaeocrystic — consisting of former glacial formation
  • paleo-asiatic — a member of any of various Mongoloid peoples of northeastern Asia.
  • palisade cell — a columnar cell of palisade parenchyma.
  • panic selling — widespread selling of a security or investment, causing sharp price declines. Usually caused by an unexpected event seen to devalue the security.
  • parallelistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a parallelism.
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • parsley sauce — a white sauce containing chopped parsley
  • pas de calais — a department of N France, in Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, on the Straits of Dover (the Pas de Calais): the part of France closest to the British Isles. Capital: Arras. Pop: 1 451 307 (2003 est). Area: 6752 sq km (2633 sq miles)
  • pas de cheval — a step in which the dancer hops on one foot and paws the ground with the other.
  • pas-de-calais — French name of the Strait of Dover.
  • pascal celery — any of several large, dark-green varieties of celery with firm, crisp stalks
  • passchendaele — a village in NW Belgium, in West Flanders province: the scene of heavy fighting during the third battle of Ypres in World War I during which 245 000 British troops were lost
  • passing place — a wider place on a narrow road where vehicles can pass
  • pastoral care — help with personal needs and problems given by a teacher
  • paternalistic — the system, principle, or practice of managing or governing individuals, businesses, nations, etc., in the manner of a father dealing benevolently and often intrusively with his children: The employees objected to the paternalism of the old president.
  • peacelessness — the state of being without peace; discord
  • peach blossom — the flower of the peach tree: the state flower of Delaware.
  • pearl essence — a lustrous, silvery-white substance obtained from the scales of certain fishes or derived synthetically, as from mercuric chloride: used chiefly in the manufacture of simulated pearls and as a pigment in lacquer (pearl lacquer)
  • pedal cyclist — a person who rides a pedal cycle, as opposed to a motorcycle
  • peirastically — in a peirastic manner
  • pelican state — Louisiana (used as a nickname).
  • penicillinase — any of a group of enzymes used to treat allergic reactions to penicillin
  • pensacola bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, in NW Florida. About 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • pentasyllabic — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
  • periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
  • perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
  • persian lilac — an Asian lilac, Syringa persica, having pale reddish-purple flowers.
  • personal call — a private phone call
  • personal care — assistance in dressing, grooming, etc., provided to elderly, disabled, or other persons who are unable to care for themselves.
  • personalistic — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
  • phallic phase — the time from about age three to five when the genitals become the focus of a child's sensual pleasure.
  • phelloplastic — an image or a representation that has been fashioned from cork
  • phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
  • physical file — (file system)   A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
  • physicalities — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
  • pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
  • pietistically — in a pietistical manner
  • place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
  • place setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
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