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13-letter words containing i, n, a, p, r

  • personalities — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
  • pertaining to — having to do with
  • peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • pervaporation — Pervaporation is a separation process in which a substance permeates through a membrane and then evaporates.
  • pervasiveness — spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
  • pet insurance — health insurance for a pet
  • petit larceny — petty larceny.
  • petit treason — the killing of a husband by his wife, of a lord by his servant, or of an ecclesiastic by a subordinate ecclesiastic.
  • petrification — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • phalansterian — of or relating to a phalanstery.
  • phalansterism — a model of society in which members of a community live in the same space and share common belongings
  • phallocentric — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • pharyngealize — to pronounce with pharyngeal coarticulation.
  • phenmetrazine — a compound, C 1 1 H 1 5 NO, used chiefly to control the appetite in the treatment of obesity.
  • phenobarbital — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
  • philanthropic — of, pertaining to, engaged in, or characterized by philanthropy; benevolent: a philanthropic foundation.
  • photo-sharing — the publishing of digital photographs on the internet
  • photographing — a picture produced by photography.
  • photoreaction — a chemical reaction that involves or requires light.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
  • phytosanitary — of or relating to the health of plants
  • piano quartet — a musical composition scored for piano and three other instruments, typically violin, viola, and cello.
  • piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
  • pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
  • pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
  • picture plane — the plane of a painting, drawing, or the like, that is in the extreme foreground of a picture, is coextensive with but not the same as the material surface of the work, is the point of visual contact between the viewer and the picture, and is conceived as a major structural element in the production of abstract or illusionistic forms.
  • picturization — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
  • piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pilsner-glass — a pale, light lager beer.
  • pinar del rio — a city in W Cuba.
  • 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.
  • pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
  • piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
  • pitcher plant — any of various insectivorous New World bog plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, and Heliamphora, having tubular or trumpet-shaped leaves containing a liquid in which insects are trapped.
  • placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • plain bearing — any of various bearings, not containing rolling elements, that present to the shaft or axle they support broad areas of corresponding form, usually segments of a cylinder.
  • plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • platiniridium — a natural alloy composed chiefly of platinum and iridium.
  • platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
  • playing cards — cards used in playing various games, arranged in decks of four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs): a standard deck has 52 cards
  • playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
  • playwrighting — the writing of plays
  • plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
  • plural voting — right to vote more than once
  • pluralization — to receive or take a plural form.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
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