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

  • extemporarily — In an extemporary manner.
  • extra-special — particular; exceptional
  • extracapsular — (anatomy) Situated outside a capsule, especially outside the capsular ligament of a joint.
  • extraparticle — Extraparticle means relating to processes that happen outside the particles in a bed.
  • extrapersonal — Outside of a person; beyond what is personal or individual.
  • extrapolating — Present participle of extrapolate.
  • extrapolation — (mathematics) A calculation of an estimate of the value of some function outside the range of known values.
  • extrapolative — That serves to extrapolate.
  • extratropical — Occurring outside the tropics, usually in temperate latitudes.
  • fairy-slipper — Calypso (def 2).
  • false vampire — any large, carnivorous bat of the families Megadermatidae and Phyllostomatidae, of Africa, Asia, and Australia, erroneously reputed to suck the blood of animals and humans.
  • fanfold paper — continuous paper perforated at regular intervals, as used in a dot-matrix printer
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • filmographies — Plural form of filmography.
  • flameproofing — Present participle of flameproof.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
  • flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
  • flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
  • fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
  • free enthalpy — a thermodynamic property of a system equal to the difference between its enthalpy and the product of its temperature and its entropy. It is usually measured in joules
  • freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
  • freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
  • fulani empire — a powerful W African Muslim state that flourished in the 19th century in the area of present-day Nigeria.
  • gelandesprung — a jump, usually over an obstacle, in which one plants both poles in the snow in advance of the skis, bends close to the ground, and propels oneself chiefly by the use of the poles.
  • gerontophilia — sexual attraction towards old people
  • glass slipper — an imaginary ladies' shoe made of glass, as worn by Cinderella in the fairy tale of that name
  • glossographer — a glossator.
  • grandparental — Of or relating to a grandparent.
  • graph plotter — plotter
  • graphemically — In terms of or by means of graphemes.
  • graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
  • graphitizable — (chemistry, of carbon) Able to be converted to graphite.
  • grapple plant — a procumbent, thorny plant, Harpagophytum procumbens, of southern Africa.
  • grease nipple — a metal nipple designed to engage with a grease gun for injecting grease into a bearing, etc
  • grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
  • hair clippers — device for trimming hair
  • happy release — liberation, esp by death, from an unpleasant condition
  • heart of palm — the stripped terminal bud of a cabbage palm, especially of the genus Euterpe, eaten in salads or as a vegetable.
  • heart problem — a defect or disease of the heart
  • heliographing — Present participle of heliograph.
  • heliotropical — heliotropic
  • helispherical — spiral
  • hemispherical — having the form of a hemisphere.
  • hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
  • hepatojugular — (medicine) Relating to the liver and the jugular vein.
  • heteroplastic — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
  • heteropolitan — a heterosexual man, typically living in a city, whose attitudes and interests are regarded as masculine but not excessively so
  • hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
  • hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
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