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13-letter words containing s, t, e, m, r, o

  • perfect storm — a detrimental or calamitous situation or event arising from the powerful combined effect of a unique set of circumstances: a perfect storm battering corporate pension plans.
  • perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
  • photocomposer — a machine for setting type photographically.
  • platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • pommes frites — French fries
  • portal system — a vascular arrangement in which blood from the capillaries of one organ is transported to the capillaries of another organ by a connecting vein or veins.
  • post meridiem — p.m.
  • post-consumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
  • post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • postage meter — an office machine used in bulk mailing that imprints prepaid postage and a dated postmark.
  • 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
  • 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
  • posttreatment — an act or manner of treating.
  • potato-masher — a kitchen implement used to crush or mash potatoes
  • praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • premonishment — a forewarning
  • pretermission — to let pass without notice; disregard.
  • primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
  • prism diopter — a unit of prismatic deviation, in which the number one represents a prism that deflects a beam of light a distance of one centimeter on a plane placed normal to the initial direction of the beam and one meter away from the prism.
  • prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
  • problem state — IBM jargon for user mode, the opposite of "supervisor state". On IBM System 360, 370 and 390 mainframes privileged instructions may only be executed in "supervisor state". Application programs request the operating system to perform these operations by using the Supervisor Call (SVC) instruction.
  • prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
  • protectionism — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
  • protest march — public demonstration
  • protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
  • psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
  • psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
  • question mark — Also called interrogation point, interrogation mark. a mark indicating a question: usually, as in English, the mark (?) placed after a question.
  • reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
  • recomfortless — having no comfort; comfortless
  • recomposition — to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
  • reconsignment — a consigning again.
  • redemonstrate — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
  • refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
  • regiomontanus — Friedrich Max [free-drik maks;; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks;; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/ (Show IPA), 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
  • remonstrantly — in a remonstrant or opposing manner
  • remonstration — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
  • remonstrative — to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
  • remonstratory — characterized by protest or expostulation
  • remote access — Remote access is a system which allows you to gain access to a particular computer or network using a separate computer.
  • remote sensor — any instrument, such as a radar device or camera, that scans the earth or another planet from space in order to collect data about some aspect of it
  • respirometric — of or relating to respirometers or respirometry
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