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13-letter words containing d, o, r, p, a

  • periodization — an act or instance of dividing a subject into historical eras for purposes of analysis and study.
  • periodontally — with respect to periodontal tissue
  • perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
  • pharaoh hound — one of a breed of medium-sized gazehounds with a smooth coat, red to tan in color with white markings, and erect ears.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • 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.
  • pinar del rio — a city in W Cuba.
  • plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
  • play on words — a pun or the act of punning.
  • pleasure dome — a large building, facility, or place used for recreation.
  • porfirio diaz — (Josédela Cruz) Porfirio [haw-se th e lah kroos pawr-fee-ryaw] /hɔˈsɛ ðɛ lɑ ˈkrus pɔrˈfi ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1830–1915, president of Mexico 1877–80, 1884–1911.
  • port adelaide — the chief port of South Australia, near Adelaide on St Vincent Gulf. Pop: 33 145 (2006)
  • port du salut — Port-Salut.
  • portrait mode — an orientation that is vertical rather than horizontal
  • posix threads — (programming)   (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
  • 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.
  • post-prandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
  • postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
  • potter around — If you potter around or potter about, you do pleasant but unimportant things, without hurrying.
  • potty trained — Potty trained means the same as toilet trained.
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • powder charge — propellant (def 2).
  • power forward — a forward valued chiefly for aggressive rebounding capability, rather than scoring, and thus a big, physically strong player.
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
  • pre-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
  • 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.
  • pre-organized — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
  • preadaptation — a structure or property that developed in an ancestral stock and was useful in a descendant in a changed environment.
  • preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
  • predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
  • premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
  • premeditation — an act or instance of premeditating.
  • prepared food — food which has been prepared by manufacturers, and is sold to be eaten at home
  • preponderance — the fact or quality of being preponderant; superiority in weight, power, numbers, etc.: The preponderance of votes is against the proposal.
  • preprogrammed — to program in advance: to preprogram a manufacturing process.
  • pride and joy — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
  • primordiality — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
  • prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • pro-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
  • product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
  • promised land — Heaven.
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