13-letter words containing l, i, n, e, p
- optical bench — an apparatus, as a special table or rigid beam, for the precise positioning of light sources, screens, and optical instruments used for optical and photometric studies, having a ruled bar to which these devices can be attached and along which they can be readily adjusted.
- outmanipulate — to surpass in manipulation
- over-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
- overpotential — overvoltage.
- paddle tennis — a game combining elements of tennis and handball, played with paddles and a rubber ball on a screened court about half the size of and having a lower net than a tennis court.
- painterliness — the quality of being painterly
- paleomagnetic — Geology. magnetic polarization acquired by the minerals in a rock at the time the rock was deposited or solidified.
- paleosiberian — a group of languages comprising those languages of Siberia that are not affiliated with Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic, or Eskimo-Aleut and including the Chukotian family and the unrelated language isolates Ket, Nivkh, and Yukaghir; Paleo-Asiatic.
- palette knife — a thin blade of varying flexibility set in a handle and used for mixing colors or applying them to a canvas.
- palingenesist — a person who believes in a doctrine of rebirth or transmigration of souls.
- palletization — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- panel heating — heating of a room or building by means of wall, ceiling, floor, or baseboard panels containing heating pipes or electrical conductors.
- panel patient — a patient insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
- panel-beating — the act of beating out the bodywork of motor vehicles
- panic selling — widespread selling of a security or investment, causing sharp price declines. Usually caused by an unexpected event seen to devalue the security.
- panleucopenia — a viral disease of cats marked by a deficiency of white blood cells
- panleukopenia — distemper1 (def 1c).
- pantagruelian — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
- pantie girdle — a girdle with a crotch.
- parainfluenza — an influenzalike respiratory infection of animals and humans, caused by any of several paramyxoviruses.
- paralipomenon — Chronicles.
- paraphernalia — (sometimes used with a singular verb) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia.
- parent-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
- parental unit — of or relating to a parent.
- parenthetical — of, pertaining to, noting, or of the nature of a parenthesis: several unnecessary parenthetic remarks.
- parietal bone — either of a pair of membrane bones forming, by their union at the sagittal suture, part of the sides and top of the skull.
- paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
- parking place — an reserved area or a space in a street where a car may be parked
- parliamentary — of or relating to a parliament or any of its members.
- parliamenting — parliamentary debating
- partitionable — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
- passing place — a wider place on a narrow road where vehicles can pass
- passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
- patentability — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- paternalistic — the system, principle, or practice of managing or governing individuals, businesses, nations, etc., in the manner of a father dealing benevolently and often intrusively with his children: The employees objected to the paternalism of the old president.
- pattern-drill — (in foreign-language learning) a technique for practicing a linguistic structure in which students repeat a sentence or other structure, each time substituting a new element, such as a new verb, as directed by the teacher, or transforming the original structure, as in changing a statement to a question.
- pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
- pedicellation — having a pedicel or pedicels.
- pelican state — Louisiana (used as a nickname).
- pelletization — the act of forming or shaping into pellets
- peloponnesian — a peninsula forming the S part of Greece: seat of the early Mycenaean civilization and the powerful city-states of Argos, Sparta, etc. 8356 sq. mi. (21,640 sq. km).
- penalty point — an endorsement on a driving licence due to a motoring offence
- pencil crayon — coloured pencil
- pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- pencil rubber — a piece of rubber used for erasing something written in pencil; eraser
- pencil stripe — a stripe of varying widths, especially a dark stripe on a light ground.
- pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.