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

  • pleasure dome — a large building, facility, or place used for recreation.
  • pleasure trip — holiday, vacation
  • plectopterous — of or relating to the order Plectoptera, containing mayflies
  • plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
  • plethysmogram — the recording of a plethysmograph.
  • pleurisy root — a North American milkweed, Asclepias tuberosa, whose root was used as a remedy for pleurisy.
  • pleurocarpous — (of certain mosses) bearing the fructifications along the main stem or lateral branches.
  • plunket nurse — a child-care nurse appointed by the Plunket Society
  • plural eulisp — EuLisp with parallel extensions. "Collections and Garbage Collection", S.C. Merall et al, in Memory Management - IWMM92, Springer 1992, pp.473-489.
  • pluripresence — presence in more than one place at the same time
  • plus juncture — open juncture.
  • polar nucleus — Botany. either of two female haploid nuclei, in the embryo sac of flowers, that fuse to produce a diploid nucleus, which combines with a male nucleus to form the endosperm.
  • police escort — a police officer or vehicle which accompanies a prisoner
  • polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
  • pollice verso — with thumbs turned downward: the sign made by spectators calling for the death of a defeated gladiator in the ancient Roman circus.
  • polliniferous — Botany. producing or bearing pollen.
  • polyarteritis — inflammation of the layers of an artery or of many arteries, usually caused by a severe hypersensitivity reaction, and characterized by nodules and hemorrhage along the involved vessels.
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • portal system — a vascular arrangement in which blood from the capillaries of one organ is transported to the capillaries of another organ by a connecting vein or veins.
  • portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
  • postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
  • potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
  • powerlessness — unable to produce an effect: a disease against which modern medicine is virtually powerless.
  • practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • prairie style — the style of the architects of the Prairie School.
  • pre-classical — of, relating to, or characteristic of Greek and Roman antiquity: classical literature; classical languages.
  • pre-disclosed — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
  • pre-eclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
  • pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • precapitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
  • precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • prescriptible — subject to or suitable for prescription.
  • present value — current monetary worth
  • presentiality — the state of being present
  • presettlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
  • press gallery — a press section, especially in a legislative chamber.
  • press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
  • press release — news update or bulletin
  • pressed glass — molded glass that has been shaped or given its pattern, while molten, by the action of a plunger thrust into the mold.
  • pressure hull — the inner, pressure-resistant hull of a submarine.
  • presterilized — to destroy microorganisms in or on, usually by bringing to a high temperature with steam, dry heat, or boiling liquid.
  • prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
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