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13-letter words containing l, e, t, r, p, s

  • prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
  • prudentialist — a person who acts prudentially
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • purpose-built — A purpose-built building has been specially designed and built for a particular use.
  • pursuit plane — (formerly) an armed airplane designed for speed and maneuverability in fighting enemy aircraft.
  • quality press — the more serious newspapers which give detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
  • quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
  • rail-splitter — a person or thing that splits logs into rails, especially for fences.
  • raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
  • rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
  • release print — Movies. print (def 31).
  • relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
  • repetitiously — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
  • replenishment — to make full or complete again, as by supplying what is lacking, used up, etc.: to replenish one's stock of food.
  • 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.
  • reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
  • reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
  • resting place — grave
  • reupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
  • reverse plate — a plate for printing a reverse.
  • 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)
  • roll-top desk — a flexible, sliding cover for the working area of a desk, opening by rising upward and back in quadrantal grooves and rolling up beneath the top.
  • rumble strips — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
  • rupert's land — (formerly, in Canada) the territories granted by Charles II to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670 and ceded to the Canadian Government in 1870, comprising all the land watered by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay
  • sales receipt — slip or document: proof of payment
  • sample letter — an example of a particular type of letter intended to show people how to construct their own letter
  • satin slipper — a play (1925–28) by Paul Claudel.
  • school report — written assessment of school pupil
  • scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
  • 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.
  • sculpturesque — suggesting sculpture: the sculpturesque beauty of her face.
  • secret police — a police force that functions as the enforcement arm of a government's political policies and whose activities, which often include surveillance, intimidation, and physical violence as a means of suppressing dissent, are usually concealed from the public.
  • selenotropism — growth in response to moonlight.
  • self-apparent — clear and evident without need of further evidence
  • self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
  • semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
  • septentrional — northern; boreal
  • serial rapist — someone who carries out a series of rapes
  • share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
  • silver-plated — Something that is silver-plated is covered with a very thin layer of silver.
  • single parent — mother or father without a partner
  • single-parent — of or noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner: a single-parent family; a single-parent household.
  • sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
  • slipper satin — a fine satin fabric with a mat finish
  • slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
  • slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
  • slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
  • southern alps — a mountain range in New Zealand, on South Island: the highest range in Australasia. Highest peak: Mount Cook (also known as Aoraki or Aorangi), 3754 m (12 316 ft)
  • spectacularly — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
  • spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
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