13-letter words containing a, l, p, e, n
- prepositional — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
- present value — current monetary worth
- presentiality — the state of being present
- preternatural — out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
- principalness — the quality or position of being principal
- procreational — having the potential to procreate
- progenitorial — characteristic of a progenitor
- progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
- proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
- promised land — Heaven.
- pronominalize — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
- pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- prudentialist — a person who acts prudentially
- prudentiality — prudential nature or practice
- prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
- psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- purple martin — a large American swallow, Progne subis, the male of which is blue-black.
- pursuit plane — (formerly) an armed airplane designed for speed and maneuverability in fighting enemy aircraft.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quadruple run — a set of five cards consisting of a three-card run plus two other cards that duplicate different denominations in the run, as 5,5,6,6,7, worth 16 points.
- quintuplicate — a group, series, or set of five copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten matter.
- raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
- 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
- real presence — the doctrine that the substance of the body and blood of Christ are present in the Eucharist.
- reapplication — an act or the process of reapplying a substance
- recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
- reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- 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.
- release print — Movies. print (def 31).
- repeater loan — a loan lent to someone who has already borrowed
- replenishable — able to be replenished
- representable — to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
- republicanism — republican government.
- republicanize — to make republican.
- republication — publication anew.
- resting place — grave
- rhaetian alps — a section of the central Alps along E Switzerland's borders with Austria and Italy. Highest peak: Piz Bernina, 4049 m (13 284 ft)
- rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- rolling paper — cigarette paper available in small packages to smokers for rolling their own cigarettes.
- route planner — a book of road maps