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13-letter words containing a, d, e, n, o

  • pinar del rio — a city in W Cuba.
  • point de gaze — a needlepoint lace in which delicate floral designs are sewn onto a net ground.
  • pointy-headed — stupid; idiotic.
  • polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
  • polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
  • ponta delgada — a seaport on SW São Miguel island, in the E Azores.
  • post-actinide — transactinide
  • post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
  • postdebutante — following the stage of being a debutante
  • postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
  • potter around — If you potter around or potter about, you do pleasant but unimportant things, without hurrying.
  • potty trained — Potty trained means the same as toilet trained.
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • pre-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • pre-organized — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
  • preadaptation — a structure or property that developed in an ancestral stock and was useful in a descendant in a changed environment.
  • preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
  • predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
  • premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
  • premeditation — an act or instance of premeditating.
  • preponderance — the fact or quality of being preponderant; superiority in weight, power, numbers, etc.: The preponderance of votes is against the proposal.
  • pride and joy — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
  • prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
  • promised land — Heaven.
  • propagandizer — a person who engages in, or subjects others to, propaganda
  • put an end to — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
  • quarter pound — a unit of weight equal to a quarter of a pound or 4 ounces avoirdupois
  • quarter round — a molding, as on an ovolo, whose section is a quarter circle.
  • quarter-bound — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
  • quartodeciman — one of a group of early Christians who observed Easter on the day of the Jewish Passover regardless of whether or not it was Sunday
  • queen dowager — the widow of a king.
  • quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
  • radiationless — not emitting or producing radiation
  • radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
  • railroad line — railway route
  • raison d'etat — a purely political reason for governmental action, based on the national interest and often violating principles of justice.
  • raison d'etre — reason or justification for being or existence: Art is the artist's raison d'être.
  • random access — designating or of a volatile memory that allows data to be accessed directly and does not require following a sequence of storage locations
  • random number — pseudorandom number
  • random rubble — masonry in which untooled stones are set without coursing
  • random sample — a statistical sample that is devised to avoid interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population
  • random-access — direct-access.
  • rattle around — If you say that someone rattles around in a room or other space, you mean that the space is too large for them.
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