13-letter words containing a, m, p, u
- pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.
- pan-teutonism — Pan-Germanism.
- 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.
- papillomatous — a benign tumor of the skin or mucous membrane consisting of hypertrophied epithelial tissue, as a wart.
- paradigm plus — A configurable object-oriented CASE tool from Proto Soft.
- paramenstruum — the four days before and first four days of menstruation
- paramyxovirus — any of various RNA-containing viruses that are similar to but larger than the myxoviruses, including the viruses that cause mumps, measles, parainfluenza, and Newcastle disease.
- paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
- particularism — exclusive attention or devotion to one's own particular interests, party, etc.
- passamaquoddy — a member of a small tribe of North American Indians formerly of coastal Maine and New Brunswick and now living in Maine.
- patch pumpkin — pumpkin
- penultimately — in penultimate position; lastly except for one
- perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
- perimenopause — the period leading up to the menopause during which some of the symptoms associated with menopause may be experienced
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- pick up steam — If a belief, a plan, or a project picks up steam, it starts to develop and become more important.
- pickup camper — camper (def 3).
- picture frame — mount for a picture
- plagiostomous — plagiostome
- platiniridium — a natural alloy composed chiefly of platinum and iridium.
- platinum disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 300 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 600 000 copies
- 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
- pneumatograph — pneumograph.
- 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
- pneumatometer — an instrument for measuring either the quantity of air inhaled or exhaled during a single inspiration or expiration or the force of inspiration or expiration.
- pneumatophore — Botany. a specialized structure developed from the root in certain plants growing in swamps and marshes, serving as a respiratory organ.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
- poison sumach — an anacardiaceous swamp shrub, Rhus (or Toxicodendron) vernix of the southeastern US, that has greenish-white berries and causes an itching rash on contact with the skin
- 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
- pons asinorum — a geometric proposition that if a triangle has two of its sides equal, the angles opposite these sides are also equal: so named from the difficulty experienced by beginners in mastering it. Euclid, 1:5.
- popular music — music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies
- postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- posttraumatic — occurring after physical or psychological trauma.
- 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.
- pretournament — occurring prior to a tournament
- primary group — a group of individuals living in close, intimate, and personal relationship.
- program music — music intended to convey an impression of a definite series of images, scenes, or events.
- protanomalous — of, relating to, or affected by protanomaly
- protoactinium — protactinium.
- 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.
- pump-and-dump — the practice of buying shares, generating favourable publicity about them, especially on the internet, then selling them when the price accordingly rises