13-letter words containing a, l, g, r, p
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- pragmatically — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
- praxiological — the study of human conduct.
- prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
- preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
- prelitigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
- prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
- press gallery — a press section, especially in a legislative chamber.
- pressed glass — molded glass that has been shaped or given its pattern, while molten, by the action of a plunger thrust into the mold.
- primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- progenitorial — characteristic of a progenitor
- progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
- prostaglandin — Biochemistry. any of a class of unsaturated fatty acids that are involved in the contraction of smooth muscle, the control of inflammation and body temperature, and many other physiological functions.
- protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
- pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- regular graph — (mathematics) A graph in which all nodes have the same degree.
- regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
- resting place — grave
- rolling paper — cigarette paper available in small packages to smokers for rolling their own cigarettes.
- rotary plough — an implement with a series of blades mounted on a power-driven shaft, used to break up soil or weeds
- selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
- shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
- single parent — mother or father without a partner
- single-parent — of or noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner: a single-parent family; a single-parent household.
- sleeping area — an area in a room or house where people can sleep
- slip carriage — a railway car detached from a moving train as it passes through a station.
- slip trailing — the act of decorating an object with a poured stream of slip.
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- sparking plug — spark plug (def 1).
- spiral casing — a spiral passage for directing the water from a penstock around a water turbine and into the rotor.
- spiral galaxy — a galaxy having a spiral structure.
- spiral spring — a form of spring consisting of a wire coiled in a helix.
- sporting lady — a prostitute.
- spring a leak — to develop a leak
- spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- spurge laurel — a European thymelaeaceous evergreen shrub, Daphne laureola, with glossy leaves and small green flowers
- star-spangled — spangled with stars.
- string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
- superdelegate — a party leader or elected public official chosen as an uncommitted delegate to a national political convention.