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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
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