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13-letter words containing t, e, m, p, s, l

  • misemployment — Wrong or mistaken employment.
  • modesty panel — a panel across the front of a desk, especially an office desk, designed to conceal the legs of a person seated at it.
  • mother's help — a woman employed to help look after children and help the mother in other ways
  • multiple shop — chain store.
  • multiple star — three or more stars lying close together in the celestial sphere and usually united in a single gravitational system.
  • multipresence — the quality or state of being multipresent
  • multispectral — (of an airborne camera or scanner) capable of sensing and recording radiation from invisible as well as visible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • neo-platonism — a philosophical system which was first developed in the 3rd century ad as a synthesis of Platonic, Pythagorean, and Aristotelian elements, and which, although originally opposed to Christianity, later incorporated it. It dominated European thought until the 13th century and re-emerged during the Renaissance
  • neocapitalism — a politico-economic theory combining elements of capitalism and socialism
  • 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.
  • nephelometers — Plural form of nephelometer.
  • omnipresently — In an omnipresent manner.
  • opthalmoscope — Misspelling of ophthalmoscope.
  • optical mouse — (hardware)   Any kind of mouse that uses visible light or infrared to detect changes in its position.
  • 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.
  • paterfamilias — the male head of a household or family, usually the father.
  • phalansterism — a model of society in which members of a community live in the same space and share common belongings
  • pilaster mass — an engaged pier, usually plain, used as a buttress.
  • plasmodesmata — any of many minute strands of cytoplasm that extend through plant cell walls and connect adjoining cells.
  • plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
  • platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
  • plenum system — a type of air-conditioning system in which air is passed into a room at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure
  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • plumbosolvent — able to dissolve lead
  • pneumatolysis — the process by which rocks are altered or minerals and ores are formed by the action of vapors given off by magma.
  • poliomyelitis — an acute viral disease, usually affecting children and young adults, caused by any of three polioviruses, characterized by inflammation of the motor neurons of the brain stem and spinal cord, and resulting in a motor paralysis, followed by muscular atrophy and often permanent deformities.
  • pompton lakes — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • 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.
  • postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • presettlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
  • presumptively — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
  • 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.
  • prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
  • replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • rumble strips — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • sample letter — an example of a particular type of letter intended to show people how to construct their own letter
  • selenotropism — growth in response to moonlight.
  • self-contempt — the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
  • self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
  • semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
  • semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
  • semipalmation — the state of being semipalmate
  • semipolitical — of a partially political nature; having some political features.
  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
  • spermatoblast — a reproductive cell
  • splatter film — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • splenectomize — to remove the spleen from
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