13-letter words containing l, e, n, i, a, p
- playing games — If you say that someone is playing games or playing silly games, you mean that they are not treating a situation seriously and you are annoyed with them.
- pleasant hill — a city in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
- pleasantville — a city in SE New Jersey.
- plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
- plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
- pneumatolysis — the process by which rocks are altered or minerals and ores are formed by the action of vapors given off by magma.
- pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
- point of sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
- point-of-sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
- pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
- police action — a relatively localized military action undertaken by regular armed forces, without a formal declaration of war, against guerrillas, insurgents, or other forces held to be violating international peace and order.
- polio vaccine — a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
- polling place — a place at or in which votes in an election are cast.
- polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
- polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
- polytechnical — relating to a technical school
- poor relation — If you describe one thing as a poor relation of another, you mean that it is similar to or part of the other thing, but is considered to be inferior to it.
- poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
- porcelaineous — like porcelain
- porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
- portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
- power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
- predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
- preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- preliminaries — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- preliminarily — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- prelitigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
- premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
- premillennial — of or relating to the period preceding the millennium.
- 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.
- presentiality — the state of being present
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
- principalness — the quality or position of being principal
- procreational — having the potential to procreate
- progenitorial — characteristic of a progenitor
- progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
- proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
- promised land — Heaven.
- pronominalize — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.