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13-letter words containing n, o, a, p, r

  • apportionment — the act of apportioning
  • appreciations — Plural form of appreciation.
  • apprehensions — Plural form of apprehension.
  • appropinquate — to approach
  • appropinquity — nearness
  • appropriating — Present participle of appropriate.
  • appropriation — An appropriation is an amount of money that a government or organization reserves for a particular purpose.
  • approximating — Present participle of approximate.
  • approximation — An approximation is a fact, object, or description which is similar to something else, but which is not exactly the same.
  • apron strings — If you say that someone is tied to another person's apron strings, you mean that they are controlled or influenced too much by the other person.
  • arachnephobia — Misspelling of arachnophobia.
  • arachniphobia — Alternative form of arachnophobia.
  • arachnophobia — an abnormal fear of spiders
  • arachnophobic — an abnormal or pathological fear of spiders.
  • armor-plating — The armor-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering that is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
  • aspirationals — Plural form of aspirational.
  • asthenosphere — a thin semifluid layer of the earth (100–200 km thick), below the outer rigid lithosphere, forming part of the mantle and thought to be able to flow vertically and horizontally, enabling sections of lithosphere to subside, rise, and undergo lateral movement
  • autoresponder — A program that automatically generates a set response to all messages sent to a particular e-mail address.
  • backing group — a group of musicians providing an instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
  • baking powder — Baking powder is an ingredient used in cake making. It causes cakes to rise when they are in the oven.
  • balneotherapy — the treatment of disease by bathing, esp to improve limb mobility in arthritic and neuromuscular disorders
  • bankrupt worm — a roundworm (genus Trichostrongylus) that is an intestinal parasite of birds and mammals, especially devastating to young livestock.
  • bass response — the response of an audio reproduction system or component to low frequencies
  • binary weapon — a chemical weapon consisting of a projectile containing two substances separately that mix to produce a lethal agent when the projectile is fired
  • blow an eprom — /bloh *n ee'prom/ (Or "blast", "burn") To program a read-only memory, e.g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip. The usage lives on (it's too vivid and expressive to discard) even though the write process on EPROMs is nondestructive.
  • boarding pass — A boarding pass is a card that a passenger must have when boarding a plane or a boat.
  • boundary peak — a peak in SW Nevada, in the White Mountains, near the California border: highest elevation in Nevada. 13,143 feet (4006 meters).
  • braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
  • bring to pass — to cause to happen
  • bronchography — radiography of the bronchial tubes after the introduction of a radiopaque medium into the bronchi
  • brooklyn park — city in SE Minn.: suburb of Minneapolis: pop. 67,000
  • by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
  • c corporation — A C corporation is a type of corporation which is taxed on its income.
  • camerapersons — Plural form of cameraperson.
  • campaniliform — Alternative form of campaniform.
  • cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
  • cape province — a former province of S South Africa; replaced in 1994 by the new provinces of Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and part of North-West. Capital: Cape Town
  • cape-province — a cape in S Africa, in the SW Republic of South Africa.
  • caprification — a method of pollinating the edible fig by hanging branches of caprifig flowers in edible fig trees. Parasitic wasps in the caprifig flowers transfer pollen to the edible fig flowers
  • carcinophobia — Inordinate dread of contracting cancer.
  • carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
  • carton-pierre — papier-mâché decorated in imitation of wood, stone, or metal, and chiefly used for ornamental statuary or decorative motifs.
  • cartoon strip — A cartoon strip is a series of drawings that tells a story.
  • caryophyllene — (organic compound) A sesquiterpene (containing a cyclobutane ring) found in the essential oils of several plants such as clove and pepper.
  • cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • cephalosporin — any of a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics obtained from fungi of the genus Cephalosporium
  • cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
  • chaperoneship — State or position of chaperone.
  • chart-topping — very popular; coming top in the charts
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