13-letter words containing s, p, i
- overprovision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- ovipositional — pertaining to the laying of eggs through an ovipositor
- ovoviviparous — producing eggs that are hatched within the body, so that the young are born alive but without placental attachment, as certain reptiles or fishes.
- pablo picasso — Pablo [pah-bloh;; Spanish pah-vlaw] /ˈpɑ bloʊ;; Spanish ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1973, Spanish painter and sculptor in France.
- packet switch — packet switching
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- paddle tennis — a game combining elements of tennis and handball, played with paddles and a rubber ball on a screened court about half the size of and having a lower net than a tennis court.
- paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
- painstakingly — taking or characterized by taking pains or trouble; expending or showing diligent care and effort; careful: a painstaking craftsman; painstaking research.
- painted horse — paint (def 6).
- painted snipe — either of two snipelike birds of the family Rostratulidae, of South America and the Old World tropics, the female of which is larger and more brightly colored than the male.
- painterliness — the quality of being painterly
- pairs skaters — two skaters, a man and a woman, or a boy and a girl, who skate together, esp in competitions
- paisley shawl — a shawl made from paisley fabric
- palaeocrystic — consisting of former glacial formation
- paleo-asiatic — a member of any of various Mongoloid peoples of northeastern Asia.
- paleosiberian — a group of languages comprising those languages of Siberia that are not affiliated with Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic, or Eskimo-Aleut and including the Chukotian family and the unrelated language isolates Ket, Nivkh, and Yukaghir; Paleo-Asiatic.
- palingenesist — a person who believes in a doctrine of rebirth or transmigration of souls.
- palisade cell — a columnar cell of palisade parenchyma.
- palos heights — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.
- pan-germanism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
- pan-teutonism — Pan-Germanism.
- panaesthetism — the belief that consciousness may be present in all matter
- pangrammatist — a writer of pangrams
- panic selling — widespread selling of a security or investment, causing sharp price declines. Usually caused by an unexpected event seen to devalue the security.
- pannikin boss — an overseer of a small group of workers; person with minor authority.
- 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.
- pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
- pantisocratic — relating to pantisocracy
- papaprelatist — a supporter of papal prelates
- paper profits — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- papillomatous — a benign tumor of the skin or mucous membrane consisting of hypertrophied epithelial tissue, as a wart.
- para-centesis — puncture of the wall of a cavity to drain off fluid.
- paradigm plus — A configurable object-oriented CASE tool from Proto Soft.
- paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
- paradise fish — any small freshwater fish of the genus Macropodus, of southeastern Asia, often kept in aquariums.
- paradise lost — an epic poem (1667) by John Milton.
- paraesthesias — an abnormal sensation, as prickling, itching, etc.
- parallelistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a parallelism.
- paramagnetism — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
- parameterised — to describe (a phenomenon, problem, curve, surface, etc.) by the use of parameters.
- paramyxovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses that are similar to but larger than the myxoviruses, including the viruses that cause mumps, measles, parainfluenza, and Newcastle disease.
- parapophysial — of or relating to a parapophysis
- parapsychosis — an abnormal psychosis
- parasexuality — parasexual behaviour
- parasite drag — the component of drag caused by skin friction and the shape of the surfaces not contributing to lift.
- parasitically — of, relating to, or characteristic of parasites.
- parasitoidism — the feeding by certain insect larvae on host tissues such that the host remains alive until larval development is complete and then usually dies.