14-letter words containing s, t, p
- post operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- post-cartesian — of or relating to Descartes, his mathematical methods, or his philosophy, especially with regard to its emphasis on logical analysis and its mechanistic interpretation of physical nature.
- post-classical — of or relating to a time after the classical period, especially in art, culture, or literature.
- post-conciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
- post-modernism — Post-modernism is a late twentieth century approach in art, architecture, and literature which typically mixes styles, ideas, and references to modern society, often in an ironic way.
- post-modernist — A post-modernist is a writer, artist, or architect who is influenced by post-modernism.
- post-obit bond — a bond paying a sum of money after the death of some specified person.
- post-operative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- post-pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
- post-treatment — an act or manner of treating.
- post-victorian — of or relating to Queen Victoria or the period of her reign: Victorian poets.
- postadolescent — growing to manhood or womanhood; youthful.
- postal service — organized handling and delivery of mail
- postamputation — following or occurring after an amputation
- postcapitalist — denoting a period or society no longer based on capitalism
- postcollegiate — denoting something that takes place after college or among those that are no longer at college
- postconception — happening after conception
- postconvention — taking place after a convention
- postcopulatory — of or relating to the period of time following copulation
- postdepression — pertaining to or denoting the period after an economic depression
- postdeterminer — a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, including ordinal and cardinal numbers, that may be placed after an article or other determiner and before a descriptive adjective, as first and three in the first three new chapters.
- poste restante — a direction written on mail to indicate that it should be held at the post office until called for by the addressee.
- posterolateral — situated both laterally and at the posterior
- postexperience — taking place after a particular experience
- postfix syntax — postfix notation
- postganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
- postgraduation — designating or occurring in the period after graduation
- posthumousness — the fact of being posthumous
- postindustrial — of, relating to, or characteristic of an era following industrialization: The economy of the postindustrial society is based on the provision of services rather than on the manufacture of goods.
- postliberation — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after the liberation of a city, state, nation, etc
- postmastectomy — of or relating to the period after a mastectomy
- postmastership — the office or position of a postmaster
- postmenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- postmillennial — of or relating to the period following the millennium.
- postminimalism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style in painting and sculpture developing in the 1970s, retaining the formal simplifications of minimal art, but striving to imbue works with a broad range of meaning and reference and often demonstrating a concern with craft and a kinship with tribal art and sculpture.
- postnasal drip — a trickling of mucus onto the pharyngeal surface from the posterior portion of the nasal cavity, usually caused by a cold or allergy.
- postnatal ward — a ward in a hospital where women and their babies are provided with medical care immediately after the birth of the baby
- postproduction — (in motion pictures, recording, etc.) the technical processes, as cutting, editing, and post-synchronization, necessary to ready a filmed or recorded work for sale or exhibition.
- postretirement — relating to or occurring in the period after retirement
- potassium alum — alum1 (def 1).
- potassium-alum — Also called potash alum, potassium alum. a crystalline solid, aluminum potassium sulfate, K 2 SO 4 ⋅Al 2 (SO 4) 3 ⋅24H 2 O, used in medicine as an astringent and styptic, in dyeing and tanning, and in many technical processes.
- potato psyllid — a tiny homopterous insect, Paratrioza cockerelli, occurring in some areas of the western U.S., western Canada, and Mexico: a serious pest to potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers, the nymphs acting as vectors in the transmission of psyllid yellows.
- potbelly stove — a usually cast-iron wood- or coal-burning stove having a large, rounded chamber.
- pott's disease — caries of the bodies of the vertebrae, often resulting in marked curvature of the spine, and usually associated with a tuberculosis infection.
- potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
- potter's wheel — a device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
- potts-fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
- pound sterling — pound2 (def 3).
- power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses