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13-letter words containing a, d, p, r, e

  • patrol leader — the leader of a division of a troop of Scouts or Guides
  • pattern-drill — (in foreign-language learning) a technique for practicing a linguistic structure in which students repeat a sentence or other structure, each time substituting a new element, such as a new verb, as directed by the teacher, or transforming the original structure, as in changing a statement to a question.
  • payday lender — a person or group that offers short-term loans, in advance of payday, at high rates of interest
  • peak district — a region of N central England, mainly in N Derbyshire at the S end of the Pennines: consists of moors in the north and a central limestone plateau; many caves. Highest point: 727 m (2088 ft)
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • pearl-handled — having a handle made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • pebble garden — a small ornamental garden mainly composed of an arrangement of pebbles
  • pedal pushers — women's short trousers
  • pedantocratic — of or relating to pedantocracy
  • pedestrianism — the exercise or practice of walking.
  • pedestrianize — to go on foot; walk.
  • pedicellariae — one of the minute pincerlike structures common to starfish and sea urchins, used for cleaning and to capture tiny prey.
  • pedro santana — Pedro [pey-droh;; Spanish pe-th raw] /ˈpeɪ droʊ;; Spanish ˈpɛ ðrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1801–64, Dominican revolutionary and political leader: president 1844–48, 1853–56, 1858–61.
  • perboric acid — a hypothetical acid, HBO 3 , known only in the form of its salts.
  • perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
  • perigean tide — an ocean tide that occurs in the spring, when the moon is at its perigee.
  • periodic acid — any of a series of acids derived from I 2 O 7 by the addition of water molecules, as HIO 4 or H 5 IO 6 .
  • periodic rate — The periodic rate is the interest rate charged for each period, such as monthly or quarterly.
  • periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
  • periodization — an act or instance of dividing a subject into historical eras for purposes of analysis and study.
  • periodontally — with respect to periodontal tissue
  • perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
  • perpendicular — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
  • phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • pinar del rio — a city in W Cuba.
  • piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • plant breeder — a botanist concerned with the origin and evolution of plants
  • pleasure dome — a large building, facility, or place used for recreation.
  • port adelaide — the chief port of South Australia, near Adelaide on St Vincent Gulf. Pop: 33 145 (2006)
  • portrait mode — an orientation that is vertical rather than horizontal
  • posix threads — (programming)   (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
  • 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.
  • post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • 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.
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • powder charge — propellant (def 2).
  • power forward — a forward valued chiefly for aggressive rebounding capability, rather than scoring, and thus a big, physically strong player.
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • predesignated — to designate beforehand.
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