13-letter words containing a, i, r, p
- disparagement — the act of disparaging.
- disparagingly — that disparages; tending to belittle or bring reproach upon: a disparaging remark.
- disparateness — The degree to which a thing is disparate.
- dispraisingly — By way of dispraise.
- dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
- disreputation — disrepute.
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
- draftsmanship — a person employed in making mechanical drawings, as of machines, structures, etc.
- drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
- drawing paper — artist's paper for drawing and sketching
- drip painting — a technique of abstract painting exemplified chiefly in the later works of Jackson Pollack and marked by the intricately executed dripping and pouring of the paint on a canvas placed on the floor.
- drop a stitch — to allow a loop of wool to fall off a knitting needle accidentally while knitting
- dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
- drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
- durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
- ear-splitting — ear-piercing: an earsplitting explosion.
- earl palatine — count palatine (def 2).
- earning power — business: ability to profit
- east prussian — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
- eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- ectoparasites — Plural form of ectoparasite.
- ectoparasitic — Of or pertaining to ectoparasites.
- elephantbirds — Plural form of elephantbird.
- empiricalness — Quality of being empirical.
- empyreumatise — to render empyreumatic
- empyreumatize — to infect or spoil with empyreuma
- enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
- enantiomorphy — the state of being enantiomorphic
- enantiotropic — relating to enantiotropy
- endoparasites — Plural form of endoparasite.
- endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
- enterohepatic — Relating to or denoting the circulation of bile salts and other secretions from the liver to the intestine, where they are reabsorbed into the blood and returned to the liver.
- enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
- epigrammatism — The use of epigrams; epigrammatical character.
- epigrammatist — Someone who writes an epigram (any meanings).
- epigrammatize — (transitive) To represent or express by epigrams.
- epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
- epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
- eproctophilia — Sexual arousal from flatulence.
- equipartition — the equal division of the energy of a system in thermal equilibrium between different degrees of freedom. This principle was assumed to be exact in classical physics, but quantum theory shows that it is true only in certain special cases
- equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
- equiponderate — To counterbalance.
- ergatomorphic — pertaining to an ergatomorph
- erythrophobia — Abnormal and persistent fear of blushing.
- escape artist — escapologist
- ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
- ethnographies — Plural form of ethnography.
- eusporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a group of cells, rather than a single cell, and with no specialized dispersal of spores
- evening paper — a newspaper that comes out in the evening
- exasperations — Plural form of exasperation.