13-letter words containing e, m, p, n
- presettlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
- presubmission — an act or instance of submitting.
- pretermission — to let pass without notice; disregard.
- pretournament — occurring prior to a tournament
- primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
- primitiveness — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- primogenitrix — a primogenitor who is female
- primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
- prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- progametangia — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- progovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- prolegomenous — prefatory; preliminary; introductory.
- promised land — Heaven.
- pronominalize — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
- pronouncement — a formal or authoritative statement.
- proper motion — Astronomy. the angular motion of a star relative to a suitably defined frame of reference, expressed in seconds of arc per year.
- protectionism — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
- protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
- proton number — the number of positive charges or protons in the nucleus of an atom of a given element, and therefore also the number of electrons normally surrounding the nucleus. Symbol: Z. Abbreviation: at. no.;
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- purple martin — a large American swallow, Progne subis, the male of which is blue-black.
- purple mombin — a tree, Spondias purpurea, of tropical America, having clusters of purple or greenish flowers and yellow or dark red fruit that is edible either raw or cooked.
- pyrimethamine — a potent substance, C 1 2 H 1 3 ClN 4 , used against susceptible plasmodia in the prophylactic treatment of malaria and against Toxoplasma gondi in the treatment of toxoplasmosis.
- pythian games — (in ancient Greece) the second most important Panhellenic festival, celebrated in the third year of each Olympiad near Delphi. The four-year period between celebrations was known as a Pythiad (ˈpɪθɪˌæd )
- queue-jumping — If you accuse someone of queue-jumping, you mean that they are trying to get to the front of a queue or waiting list unfairly.
- ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
- random sample — a statistical sample that is devised to avoid interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population
- rapprochement — an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations: a rapprochement reached between warring factions.
- re-employment — an act or instance of employing someone or something.
- reappointment — a fixed mutual agreement for a meeting; engagement: We made an appointment to meet again.
- recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
- recomposition — to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
- recompression — the act or process of compressing something again
- recomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
- redevelopment — the act or process of redeveloping.
- reperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- representamen — (in semiotics) a sign or signifier, whether physical or otherwise, which points to an object
- representment — an act of representing or an instance thereof
- republicanism — republican government.
- response time — Psychology. the time consumed in making a response.
- revenue stamp — a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- scavenge pump — an oil pump used in some internal-combustion engines to return oil from the crankcase to the oil tank
- second empire — the empire established in France (1852–70) by Louis Napoleon: the successor to the Second Republic.
- selenotropism — growth in response to moonlight.