13-letter words containing l, a, s, e, r, n
- preliminaries — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- prepositional — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
- present value — current monetary worth
- presentiality — the state of being present
- principalness — the quality or position of being principal
- progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
- promised land — Heaven.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- prudentialist — a person who acts prudentially
- prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
- pursuit plane — (formerly) an armed airplane designed for speed and maneuverability in fighting enemy aircraft.
- quarterfinals — Plural form of quarterfinal.
- rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
- radiationless — not emitting or producing radiation
- radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
- raglan sleeve — a sleeve that begins at the neck and has a long, slanting seam line from the neck to the armhole, giving the garment a relatively undefined shoulder.
- raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
- rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
- random sample — a statistical sample that is devised to avoid interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population
- rankine scale — William John Macquorn [muh-kwawrn] /məˈkwɔrn/ (Show IPA), 1820–70, Scottish engineer and physicist.
- re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
- read a lesson — to censure or reprimand, esp in a long-winded manner
- reading glass — a magnifying glass that people use to enlarge text to make it easier to read
- real presence — the doctrine that the substance of the body and blood of Christ are present in the Eucharist.
- real soon now — (jargon, humour) (RSN) A phrase used ironically when you believe an event will take a long or unknown time to occur. The term originated in SF's fanzine community, popularised by Jerry Pournelle's column in BYTE. The phrase can be used, for example, when a manager asks how long it will take you to debug some software and you have no idea. "I'll have it working Real Soon Now."
- reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
- recalcitrants — resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
- reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- relay station — a radio station that receives radio signals and retransmits them, in order to extend their range
- release agent — chemical lubricant
- release print — Movies. print (def 31).
- remonstrantly — in a remonstrant or opposing manner
- rensselaerite — a white or yellow compact variety of talc, used for ornaments
- replenishable — able to be replenished
- representable — to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
- republicanism — republican government.
- residentially — of or relating to residence or to residences: a residential requirement for a doctorate.
- restimulation — the act or process of stimulating again; reactivation
- resting place — grave
- resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
- retranslation — the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.
- revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
- 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)
- rhinoscleroma — an inflammatory bacterial disease of the nose that is mostly found in Africa and Central America
- riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
- rivalrousness — characterized by rivalry; competitive: the rivalrous aspect of their friendship.
- roanoke bells — a wild plant, Mertensia virginica, of the borage family, native to the eastern U.S., grown as a garden plant for its handsome, nodding clusters of blue flowers.