13-letter words containing s, p, e, c, m, a
- neoplasticism — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- nucleoplasmic — Of or pertaining to nucleoplasm.
- nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
- 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.
- paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
- passe compose — a grammatical construction of French consisting of the present tense of an auxiliary, either avoir or être, followed by a past participle and corresponding in function to both the English present perfect and the English simple past tenses.
- peach blossom — the flower of the peach tree: the state flower of Delaware.
- pentatonicism — the use of a five-tone scale.
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- pick up steam — If a belief, a plan, or a project picks up steam, it starts to develop and become more important.
- place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
- plasma screen — A plasma screen is a type of thin television screen or computer screen that produces high-quality images.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- postvasectomy — of or occurring in the period after a vasectomy
- pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- 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.
- primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
- prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
- protest march — public demonstration
- republicanism — republican government.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- sauce supreme — suprême (def 1).
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- scavenge pump — an oil pump used in some internal-combustion engines to return oil from the crankcase to the oil tank
- semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
- semiempirical — partly empirical
- semiparasitic — Biology. commonly parasitic but also capable of living on dead or decaying animal matter.
- 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.
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- space tourism — travel into space for recreational purposes
- sparcsystem 4 — (computer) A computer built with the MicroSPARC ii 70MHz CPU as used in the SPARC 5 Model 70. The SPARCsystem 4 is basically a cheaper, cut-down SPARC 5. It has an 8-bit pixel accelerator instead of the SBus Turbo GX card. Memory expansion is limited to 160 MB. Availability was planned for March/April 1995.
- spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
- specific name — the second part in the name of a species, such as norvegicus in Rattus norvegicus
- specimen page — a page regarded as typical of pages of its type, esp one produced by a typesetter or designer to show an example of the typesetting for a book
- speech making — act of addressing the public formally
- spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
- spermatotoxic — spermotoxic.
- stamp machine — a machine used for stamping documents, as with the time, etc
- stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
- supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
- supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
- superromantic — exceptionally romantic
- supramolecule — a collection of molecules held together by intermolecular forces
- swamp cabbage — skunk cabbage.