13-letter words containing g, e, n, r
- overencourage — to encourage too much
- overenergetic — excessively energetic
- overflowingly — to an excessive degree
- overingenious — ingenious to a fault
- overingenuity — the state of being ingenious to a fault
- overnight bag — a travel bag large enough to hold personal articles and clothing for an overnight trip.
- overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
- overreporting — an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.: a report on the peace conference; a medical report on the patient.
- overwintering — to pass, spend, or survive the winter: to overwinter on the Riviera.
- packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
- pan-germanism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
- pantagruelian — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- pantie girdle — a girdle with a crotch.
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- parade ground — A parade ground is an area of ground where soldiers practise marching and have parades.
- paramagnetism — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
- paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
- parking brake — emergency brake.
- parking meter — a mechanical device for registering and collecting payment for the length of time that a vehicle occupies a parking space, consisting typically of a timer, actuated by a coin that a driver deposits upon parking, set in a headpiece mounted on a pole.
- parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
- parliamenting — parliamentary debating
- part exchange — If you give an old item in part exchange for something you are buying, the seller accepts the old item as part of the payment, so you do not have to give them as much money.
- passenger car — carriage of a train
- passenger jet — a jet that carries passengers
- pastel orange — suntan (def 3).
- path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
- patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
- pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
- pebble garden — a small ornamental garden mainly composed of an arrangement of pebbles
- pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
- pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
- perching bird — any member of the avian order Passeriformes.
- peregrination — travel from one place to another, especially on foot.
- peregrinatory — tending to peregrinate; relating to or characteristic of a traveller
- perigean tide — an ocean tide that occurs in the spring, when the moon is at its perigee.
- perseveringly — displaying perseverance; resolutely persistent; steadfast: a persevering student.
- persona grata — an acceptable person, especially a diplomatic representative acceptable to the government to which he or she is accredited.
- pertaining to — having to do with
- petrol engine — an internal-combustion engine that uses petrol as fuel
- pharyngealize — to pronounce with pharyngeal coarticulation.
- pharyngectomy — excision of part or all of the pharynx.
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- phytoestrogen — an estrogen-like compound occurring naturally in plants of the legume family and in grains, vegetables, and fruits.
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- pilsner-glass — a pale, light lager beer.
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
- placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods