13-letter words containing s, t, e, p, c
- pick up steam — If a belief, a plan, or a project picks up steam, it starts to develop and become more important.
- picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
- pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
- picturesquely — visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village.
- piece of shit — despicable person
- pietistically — in a pietistical manner
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- place setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
- place-setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- plectopterous — of or relating to the order Plectoptera, containing mayflies
- plus juncture — open juncture.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
- pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
- point success — a peak in W central Washington, to the S of Mount Rainier, in the Cascade Range.14,158 feet (4318 meters).
- police escort — a police officer or vehicle which accompanies a prisoner
- polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
- post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
- post-actinide — transactinide
- post-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
- post-consumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- postage costs — the cost of having mail delivered
- 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
- postepileptic — after an epileptic seizure
- postinfection — of, relating to or occurring in the period after infection
- postinjection — the act of injecting.
- postpubescent — a young person in his or her early teens.
- postrecession — occurring or existing in the period after a recession
- postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
- postvasectomy — of or occurring in the period after a vasectomy
- potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
- practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- 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-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
- 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-existence — to exist beforehand.
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
- preantiseptic — (especially of surgery) noting that period of time before the adoption of the principles of antisepsis (about 1867).
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- precapitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
- preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
- precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.