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13-letter words containing y, a, m, p

  • play for time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • play the game — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
  • playing games — If you say that someone is playing games or playing silly games, you mean that they are not treating a situation seriously and you are annoyed with them.
  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
  • pneumatolysis — the process by which rocks are altered or minerals and ores are formed by the action of vapors given off by magma.
  • pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
  • policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
  • polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
  • polycythaemia — an abnormal condition of the blood characterized by an increase in the number of red blood cells. It can occur as a primary disease of unknown cause (polycythaemia vera or erythraemia) or in association with respiratory or circulatory diseases
  • polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
  • polygamophile — a person who approves of or countenances polygamy, especially as practiced by others.
  • polynomialism — a polynomial naming system
  • polyoma virus — a small DNA-containing virus, of the papovavirus group, that can produce a variety of tumors in mice, hamsters, rabbits, and rats.
  • polyribosomal — relating to a polyribosome
  • polysomnogram — a record of a person's sleep pattern, breathing, heart activity, and limb movements during sleep. Abbreviation: PSG.
  • polysyllabism — a polysyllabic style or the use of multisyllabic words
  • polythalamous — having multiple chambers
  • poppy anemone — a southern European plant, Anemone coronaria, of the buttercup family, having tuberous roots and solitary, poppylike, red, blue, or white flowers, grown as an ornamental.
  • 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.
  • postvasectomy — of or occurring in the period after a vasectomy
  • pragmatically — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
  • pre-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
  • predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
  • predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • preliminarily — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
  • primary cache — (hardware, architecture)   (L1 cache, level one cache) A small, fast cache memory inside or close to the CPU chip. For example, an Intel 80486 has an eight-kilobyte on-chip cache, and most Pentiums have a 16-KB on-chip level one cache that consists of an 8-KB instruction cache and an 8-KB data cache. The larger, slower secondary cache is normally connected to the CPU via its external bus.
  • primary color — Art. a color, as red, yellow, or blue, that in mixture yields other colors. Compare complementary color (def 1), secondary color, tertiary color.
  • primary group — a group of individuals living in close, intimate, and personal relationship.
  • primary metal — metal derived directly from ore rather than from scrap.
  • primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
  • primary tooth — one of the temporary teeth of a mammal that are replaced by the permanent teeth.
  • primary xylem — xylem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
  • primordiality — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
  • priority mail — (in the U.S. Postal Service) mail consisting of merchandise weighing more than 12 ounces sent at first-class rates.
  • prismatically — of, relating to, or like a prism.
  • privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
  • pro-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
  • promotability — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
  • prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
  • psychodynamic — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
  • psychosomatic — of or relating to a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.
  • pusillanimity — the state or condition of being pusillanimous; timidity; cowardliness.
  • pyrimethamine — a potent substance, C 1 2 H 1 3 ClN 4 , used against susceptible plasmodia in the prophylactic treatment of malaria and against Toxoplasma gondi in the treatment of toxoplasmosis.
  • pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
  • quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
  • raspberry jam — jam made using raspberries
  • river lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis; a jawless fish
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • salpingostomy — the formation of an artificial opening into a Fallopian tube.
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