13-letter words containing h, e, p, t, r
- preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
- premonishment — a forewarning
- presidentship — presidency.
- press attaché — the official in an embassy who has the job of liaising with the media
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- pretendership — the standing of a pretender
- primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
- private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
- prize fighter — A prize fighter is a boxer who fights to win money.
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- prosectorship — the position or responsibility of a prosector
- protectorship — a person or thing that protects; defender; guardian.
- protest march — public demonstration
- protochordate — any of the nonvertebrate chordates, as the tunicates, cephalochordates, and hemichordates.
- psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
- psychotherapy — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
- pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
- pull together — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
- puritan ethic — work ethic.
- pyretotherapy — therapy by raising the body temperature, as by diathermy or by artificially inducing fever.
- pyrheliometer — an instrument for measuring the total intensity of the sun's energy radiation.
- 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.
- pyrophosphate — a salt or ester of pyrophosphoric acid.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quarter-phase — differing in phase by a quarter of a cycle; two-phase.
- ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
- rapprochement — an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations: a rapprochement reached between warring factions.
- red-hot poker — tritoma.
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
- replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
- reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
- reupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- rhaetian alps — a section of the central Alps along E Switzerland's borders with Austria and Italy. Highest peak: Piz Bernina, 4049 m (13 284 ft)
- rheoreceptors — a receptor of fishes and aquatic amphibians stimulated by water currents.
- richard petty — Richard, born 1937, U.S. racing-car driver.
- rumbledethump — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
- sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
- school report — written assessment of school pupil
- sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
- scratch paper — rough paper for notes, etc.
- secretaryship — a person, usually an official, who is in charge of the records, correspondence, minutes of meetings, and related affairs of an organization, company, association, etc.: the secretary of the Linguistic Society of America.
- shape-shifter — a creature or thing that can change shape at will or that does so under certain conditions
- share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
- sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
- sharp-tongued — characterized by or given to harshness, bitterness, or sarcasm in speech.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.