13-letter words containing e, p, n, d
- pinar del rio — a city in W Cuba.
- piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
- plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
- plain dealing — direct and honest conduct in one's relations and transactions with others.
- plant breeder — a botanist concerned with the origin and evolution of plants
- platitudinize — to utter platitudes.
- playing field — an expanse of level ground, as in a park or stadium, where athletic events are held.
- plenitudinous — characterized or marked by plenitude.
- point de gaze — a needlepoint lace in which delicate floral designs are sewn onto a net ground.
- pointy-headed — stupid; idiotic.
- polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
- polycotyledon — a plant having more than two cotyledons, as certain gymnosperms.
- polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
- ponce de leon — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), c1460–1521, Spanish explorer.
- ponta delgada — a seaport on SW São Miguel island, in the E Azores.
- pop-down menu — pull-down menu
- possessedness — the state or condition of being possessed
- post-actinide — transactinide
- 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.
- postdebutante — following the stage of being a debutante
- postmodernism — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, especially a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity.
- postmodernist — relating to late 20th-century art movement
- 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.
- powder monkey — (formerly) a boy employed on warships to carry gunpowder from the magazine to the guns.
- power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- pre-contrived — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
- pre-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- 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-mentioned — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
- pre-organized — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- pre-portioned — to divide into portions before packaging, selling, etc.: to preportion meals for schools and hospitals.
- 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.
- preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- predefinition — the process or action of defining in advance; an advance definition
- predesignated — to designate beforehand.
- predestinated — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
- predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
- predetermined — to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
- predeterminer — a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, often quantitative in meaning, that may be placed before an article or other determiner, as all in all the paintings or half in half her salary.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- prediscussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- predistortion — preemphasis.
- 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.