13-letter words containing a, n, p, r
- photographing — a picture produced by photography.
- photoreaction — a chemical reaction that involves or requires light.
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
- phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
- phytosanitary — of or relating to the health of plants
- piano quartet — a musical composition scored for piano and three other instruments, typically violin, viola, and cello.
- piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
- pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
- pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
- picture plane — the plane of a painting, drawing, or the like, that is in the extreme foreground of a picture, is coextensive with but not the same as the material surface of the work, is the point of visual contact between the viewer and the picture, and is conceived as a major structural element in the production of abstract or illusionistic forms.
- picturization — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- pilsner-glass — a pale, light lager beer.
- pinar del rio — a city in W Cuba.
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
- piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
- pitcher plant — any of various insectivorous New World bog plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, and Heliamphora, having tubular or trumpet-shaped leaves containing a liquid in which insects are trapped.
- placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
- plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
- plain bearing — any of various bearings, not containing rolling elements, that present to the shaft or axle they support broad areas of corresponding form, usually segments of a cylinder.
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- plane journey — a journey made by flying in an aeroplane
- plane spotter — a person who observes, photographs, and catalogues aircraft as a hobby
- planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
- plant breeder — a botanist concerned with the origin and evolution of plants
- plant hormone — an organic chemical, as auxin, produced by plant cells and functioning at various sites to regulate growth, turning, metabolic processes, etc.
- plasma screen — A plasma screen is a type of thin television screen or computer screen that produces high-quality images.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- platiniridium — a natural alloy composed chiefly of platinum and iridium.
- platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
- play on words — a pun or the act of punning.
- playing cards — cards used in playing various games, arranged in decks of four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs): a standard deck has 52 cards
- playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
- playwrighting — the writing of plays
- plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
- plug and pray — (humour) The Windows 95 equivalent of the Macintosh's plug and play, referring to difficulties encountered when setting up new hardware under Windows 95.
- plural voting — right to vote more than once
- pluralization — to receive or take a plural form.
- pneumatograph — pneumograph.
- pneumatometer — an instrument for measuring either the quantity of air inhaled or exhaled during a single inspiration or expiration or the force of inspiration or expiration.
- pneumatophore — Botany. a specialized structure developed from the root in certain plants growing in swamps and marshes, serving as a respiratory organ.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
- pococurantist — a person who demonstrates a tendency toward indifference
- pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- poker machine — a fruit machine
- polar nucleus — Botany. either of two female haploid nuclei, in the embryo sac of flowers, that fuse to produce a diploid nucleus, which combines with a male nucleus to form the endosperm.