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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.
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