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13-letter words containing a, p, e, l, i, n

  • palette knife — a thin blade of varying flexibility set in a handle and used for mixing colors or applying them to a canvas.
  • palingenesist — a person who believes in a doctrine of rebirth or transmigration of souls.
  • palletization — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
  • panel heating — heating of a room or building by means of wall, ceiling, floor, or baseboard panels containing heating pipes or electrical conductors.
  • panel patient — a patient insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
  • panel-beating — the act of beating out the bodywork of motor vehicles
  • panic selling — widespread selling of a security or investment, causing sharp price declines. Usually caused by an unexpected event seen to devalue the security.
  • panleucopenia — a viral disease of cats marked by a deficiency of white blood cells
  • panleukopenia — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • 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.
  • pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
  • pantie girdle — a girdle with a crotch.
  • parainfluenza — an influenzalike respiratory infection of animals and humans, caused by any of several paramyxoviruses.
  • paralipomenon — Chronicles.
  • paraphernalia — (sometimes used with a singular verb) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia.
  • parent-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
  • parental unit — of or relating to a parent.
  • parenthetical — of, pertaining to, noting, or of the nature of a parenthesis: several unnecessary parenthetic remarks.
  • parietal bone — either of a pair of membrane bones forming, by their union at the sagittal suture, part of the sides and top of the skull.
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
  • parliamentary — of or relating to a parliament or any of its members.
  • parliamenting — parliamentary debating
  • partitionable — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
  • passing place — a wider place on a narrow road where vehicles can pass
  • 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.
  • patentability — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • pedicellation — having a pedicel or pedicels.
  • pelican state — Louisiana (used as a nickname).
  • pelletization — the act of forming or shaping into pellets
  • peloponnesian — a peninsula forming the S part of Greece: seat of the early Mycenaean civilization and the powerful city-states of Argos, Sparta, etc. 8356 sq. mi. (21,640 sq. km).
  • penalty point — an endorsement on a driving licence due to a motoring offence
  • pencil crayon — coloured pencil
  • peneplanation — an area reduced almost to a plain by erosion.
  • penetratively — in a penetrative manner
  • penicillamine — a chelating agent, C 5 H 1 1 NO 2 S, produced by the degradation of penicillin, used in the treatment of severe rheumatoid arthritis and in heavy metal poisoning.
  • penicillinase — any of a group of enzymes used to treat allergic reactions to penicillin
  • 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
  • pennsylvanian — of or relating to the state of Pennsylvania.
  • penny-a-liner — a hack writer.
  • pentadactylic — having five digits on each limb
  • pentasyllabic — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
  • 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.
  • penultimately — in penultimate position; lastly except for one
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