13-letter words containing a, n, p, r
- participantly — in a participant manner
- participating — to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in): to participate in profits; to participate in a play.
- participation — an act or instance of participating.
- parting strip — a strip, as of wood, used to keep two parts separated, as one in each side of the frame of a window to keep the sashes apart when lowered or raised.
- partitionable — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
- partitionment — the act or fact of being partitioned
- party machine — the internal organization of a political party, which decides its policies and directs its activities
- party manners — polite behaviour
- passementerie — trimming of braid, cord, bead, etc., in any of various forms.
- passenger car — carriage of a train
- passenger jet — a jet that carries passengers
- passion cross — Latin cross.
- passion fruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
- past anterior — a pluperfect verb (in French)
- pastel orange — suntan (def 3).
- patent hammer — a hammer for dressing stone, having a head with two faces formed of a number of broad, thin chisels bolted side by side.
- patent holder — a person or company that holds a patent
- paternalistic — the system, principle, or practice of managing or governing individuals, businesses, nations, etc., in the manner of a father dealing benevolently and often intrusively with his children: The employees objected to the paternalism of the old president.
- path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
- patronization — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- patronizingly — displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner: a patronizing greeting, accompanied by a gentle pat on the pack.
- pattern maker — someone who creates plans or diagrams used as a guide in making something
- 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.
- patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
- pauperization — the act or process of making a pauper of or impoverishing
- pavilion roof — a pyramidal hip roof.
- payday lender — a person or group that offers short-term loans, in advance of payday, at high rates of interest
- payment terms — the terms or conditions concerning the payment of something
- peanut butter — a paste made from ground roasted peanuts, used as a spread or in cookery.
- pearl essence — a lustrous, silvery-white substance obtained from the scales of certain fishes or derived synthetically, as from mercuric chloride: used chiefly in the manufacture of simulated pearls and as a pigment in lacquer (pearl lacquer)
- 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
- pedantocratic — of or relating to pedantocracy
- pedestrianism — the exercise or practice of walking.
- pedestrianize — to go on foot; walk.
- 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.
- penalty rates — rates of pay, such as double time, paid to employees working outside normal working hours
- pencil crayon — coloured pencil
- penetratively — in a penetrative manner
- peninsula war — a war (1808–14) in Spain and Portugal, with British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops opposing the French.
- peninsularity — the state or fact of being a peninsula
- penny-a-liner — a hack writer.
- pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
- penthemimeral — (of a caesura) occurring after the first penthemimer of a poetic line, i.e. in the middle of the third foot
- pentobarbital — a barbiturate, C 1 1 H 1 7 N 2 O 3 , used as a hypnotic and as a sedative.
- perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
- perchlorinate — to combine with the maximum proportion of chlorine.
- perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation