13-letter words containing a, n, p, r
- omnicorporeal — Comprehending or including all bodies; embracing all substance.
- on a par with — If you say that two people or things are on a par with each other, you mean that they are equally good or bad, or equally important.
- on one's part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
- on the carpet — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
- on the parish — receiving parochial relief
- onus probandi — the burden of proof.
- onychophorans — Plural form of onychophoran.
- open fracture — compound fracture.
- open interval — (mathematics) A type of interval (range of numbers) that does not include either of its endpoints. For example, when mixing red and blue paint, the proportion of red lies in the interval 0% to 100% but can't be exactly 0% or 100% or it wouldn't be a mixture.
- open learning — a system of further education on a flexible part-time basis
- open marriage — a marriage in which the partners agree that each is free to have sexual relationships with other partners.
- open-standard — (of computer programs, codes, etc) freely available to all users
- openheartedly — Alt form open-heartedly.
- opentransport — (networking) (OT) A complete reimplementation of all levels of the Macintosh networking code including "Classic" AppleTalk and MacTCP. It appeared in MacOS revision 7.5.3 [or earlier? Date?].
- opera company — a company that puts on productions of operas
- operationally — able to function or be used; functional: How soon will the new factory be operational?
- operativeness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being operative.
- opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
- oppignoration — the act or an instance of pawning or pledging
- oppositionary — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
- oprahfication — the perceived increase in people’s desire to discuss their emotions or personal problems, attributed to the influence of confessional television programmes
- optical crown — an optical glass of low dispersion and relatively low refractive index. It is used in the construction of lenses
- ora pro nobis — a Latin invocation meaning pray for us
- organotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the use of remedies prepared from the organs of animals, as from the thyroid gland, the pancreas, or the suprarenal bodies.
- organotropism — Physiology. the attraction of microorganisms or chemical substances to particular organs or tissues of the body.
- ornithophobia — Fear of birds.
- oropharyngeal — the part of the pharynx between the soft palate and the upper edge of the epiglottis.
- orthopinakoid — a crystalline plane
- over-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- overexpansion — the act or process of expanding.
- overland park — a town in E Kansas, near Kansas City.
- overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
- overpotential — overvoltage.
- packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
- paediatrician — A paediatrician is a doctor who specializes in treating sick children.
- painted horse — paint (def 6).
- painterliness — the quality of being painterly
- pair trawling — the act or practice of using two boats to trawl for fish
- palaeocurrent — an ancient current, esp of water, evidence of which has been preserved in sedimentary rocks as fossilized ripple marks, etc
- paleosiberian — a group of languages comprising those languages of Siberia that are not affiliated with Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic, or Eskimo-Aleut and including the Chukotian family and the unrelated language isolates Ket, Nivkh, and Yukaghir; Paleo-Asiatic.
- pan-germanism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
- pancreatotomy — incision of the pancreas.
- pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
- pandora's box — a source of extensive but unforeseen troubles or problems: The senate investigation turned out to be a Pandora's box for the administration.
- pangola grass — a grass, Digitaria decumbens, native to southern Africa, cultivated for hay and forage in the southeastern U.S.
- pangrammatist — a writer of pangrams
- panharmonicon — a mechanical instrument that imitates orchestral sounds
- panradiometer — an instrument used for measuring radiant heat independently of wavelength
- pantagruelian — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.