13-letter words containing a, m, p, u, l
- pleasure dome — a large building, facility, or place used for recreation.
- 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
- polyoma virus — a small DNA-containing virus, of the papovavirus group, that can produce a variety of tumors in mice, hamsters, rabbits, and rats.
- polythalamous — having multiple chambers
- popular music — music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies
- postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
- preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
- premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- protanomalous — of, relating to, or affected by protanomaly
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- psammophilous — living or growing in sand
- public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
- purple martin — a large American swallow, Progne subis, the male of which is blue-black.
- pusillanimity — the state or condition of being pusillanimous; timidity; cowardliness.
- pusillanimous — lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
- quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
- republicanism — republican government.
- sample survey — a survey of particular examples of sth, intended as representative of the whole category
- scapulimantic — relating to scapulimancy
- scripturalism — the state of being scriptural or adhering to the Scriptures when translating or writing
- sinumbra lamp — an unshaded sperm-oil lamp consisting of a translucent glass globe supported on a pedestal: a form of astral lamp.
- slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
- somar dumpacl — (tool) A utilty which provides a concise report of Windows NT file system permissions, to help find holes in system security.
- spathiphyllum — any of various tropical plants of the genus Spathiphyllum, having a white or green spathe and a spike of fragrant flowers and often cultivated as an ornamental.
- speak volumes — a collection of written or printed sheets bound together and constituting a book.
- spinal column — the series of vertebrae in a vertebrate animal forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; spine; backbone.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
- sumptuary law — a law regulating personal habits that offend the moral or religious beliefs of the community.
- supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
- supercriminal — an extremely bad, powerful or successful criminal, a criminal working on a large scale or committing extreme crimes
- superdiplomat — a highly skilled or powerful diplomat, a high-ranking diplomat
- supermilitant — highly militant
- supersalesman — an extremely skillful and effective salesperson.
- supplementary — Also, supplemental. of the nature of or forming a supplement; additional.
- supramolecule — a collection of molecules held together by intermolecular forces
- supratemporal — situated above the upper part of the temporal bone or region.
- talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
- tap loop jump — a jump in which the skater takes off from the back outer edge of one skate, makes one full rotation in the air, and lands on the back outer edge of the same skate.
- temporal hour — a unit of time used in the Roman and Ottoman empires that divided the daylight into an equal number of hours, resulting in long summer hours and short winter hours.
- total impulse — a measure of the maximum momentum that a given reaction engine and fuel supply can impart to a vehicle.
- tramping club — an organization of people who walk for recreation, esp in the bush
- trumpet blast — the sound of a single note made by a trumpet
- tungsten lamp — an incandescent electric lamp in which the filament is made of tungsten.
- umbrella palm — an Australian feather palm, Hedyscepe canterburyana, characterized by the umbrellalike manner of growth of its leaves.
- umbrella pine — a Japanese evergreen tree, Sciadopitys verticillata, having linear leaves growing in umbrellalike whorls, cultivated as an ornamental.