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13-letter words containing a, p, u, r, e

  • post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
  • post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • potter around — If you potter around or potter about, you do pleasant but unimportant things, without hurrying.
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • power failure — electricity outage
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • prague spring — a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.
  • pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
  • pre-calculate — to determine or ascertain by mathematical methods; compute: to calculate the velocity of light.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • pre-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • preacher curl — a weightlifting exercise for the biceps in which a barbell is lifted by flexing the elbows, with the upper arms resting on an angled bench
  • precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
  • precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
  • precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
  • prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
  • preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
  • prejudicative — tending to prejudge
  • prejudicially — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
  • premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
  • premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
  • preoccupation — the state of being preoccupied.
  • present value — current monetary worth
  • pressure drag — the part of the total drag of a body moving through a gas or liquid caused by the components of the pressures at right angles to the surface of the body
  • pressure head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
  • preternatural — out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
  • pretournament — occurring prior to a tournament
  • private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes
  • private trust — a trust designed for the benefit of a designated or known individual (opposed to charitable trust).
  • probate court — a special court with power over administration of estates of deceased persons, the probate of wills, etc.
  • procuratorate — Roman History. any of various imperial officials with fiscal or administrative powers.
  • product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
  • pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
  • prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
  • proteinaceous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
  • protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
  • 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
  • pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
  • pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
  • puritan ethic — work ethic.
  • purple martin — a large American swallow, Progne subis, the male of which is blue-black.
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