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13-letter words containing e, p, a, y

  • parliamentary — of or relating to a parliament or any of its members.
  • parry channel — a water channel in N Canada running between Baffin Bay on the E and the Arctic Ocean on the W: separates the Queen Elizabeth Islands (N) from the rest of the Arctic Archipelago.
  • parsley piert — a small N temperate rosaceous plant, Aphanes arvensis, having fan-shaped leaves and small greenish flowers
  • parsley sauce — a white sauce containing chopped parsley
  • parthenocarpy — the production of fruit without fertilization of an egg in the ovary.
  • party machine — the internal organization of a political party, which decides its policies and directs its activities
  • party manners — polite behaviour
  • party-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
  • pascal celery — any of several large, dark-green varieties of celery with firm, crisp stalks
  • pastry cutter — a cutter that is used to cut pastry into shapes
  • patentability — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
  • pathogenicity — the disease-producing capacity of a pathogen.
  • pay a pension — If a company or government pays a pension to someone, it provides them with money because they have reached a certain age.
  • pay attention — be attentive
  • pay one's way — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
  • pay structure — a collection of pay grades or bands, which set out the different levels of pay for workers in a certain profession, etc
  • pay the check — When a customer pays the check in a restaurant, they pay the amount that they owe for their meal.
  • pay the piper — a person who plays on a pipe.
  • pay-per-click — a system used to set prices for online advertisements on a search engine or other website, by which the advertiser pays a small fee to the website publisher each time a user clicks on the advertisement.
  • payday lender — a person or group that offers short-term loans, in advance of payday, at high rates of interest
  • payment terms — the terms or conditions concerning the payment of something
  • pearly whites — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • pedagogically — of or relating to a pedagogue or pedagogy.
  • pedal cyclist — a person who rides a pedal cycle, as opposed to a motorcycle
  • peg away (at) — to work steadily and persistently (at)
  • peirastically — in a peirastic manner
  • penalty point — an endorsement on a driving licence due to a motoring offence
  • penalty rates — rates of pay, such as double time, paid to employees working outside normal working hours
  • pencil crayon — coloured pencil
  • penetratively — in a penetrative manner
  • peninsularity — the state or fact of being a peninsula
  • pennsylvanian — of or relating to the state of Pennsylvania.
  • penny-a-liner — a hack writer.
  • pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • penobscot bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in S Maine. 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • pensacola bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, in NW Florida. About 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • pentadactylic — having five digits on each limb
  • pentasyllabic — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
  • pentasyllable — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
  • penultimately — in penultimate position; lastly except for one
  • pepper family — the plant family Piperaceae, characterized by tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having simple leaves, dense spikes of very small flowers, and fleshy, berrylike fruit, and including peperomia and peppers of the genus Piper.
  • peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
  • peregrinatory — tending to peregrinate; relating to or characteristic of a traveller
  • perilymphatic — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
  • periodontally — with respect to periodontal tissue
  • peripherality — the quality of being peripheral
  • perishability — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
  • perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
  • permanent way — the roadbed and track of a railroad.
  • petit larceny — petty larceny.
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