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

  • apportionable — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
  • 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
  • be spoken for — If a person or thing is spoken for or has been spoken for, someone has claimed them or asked for them, so no-one else can have them.
  • benzoyl group — the univalent group C 7 H 5 O–, derived from benzoic acid.
  • 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
  • birthing pool — a large bath in which a woman can give birth
  • bishop's ring — a reddish-brown corona occasionally seen around the sun, caused by volcanic dust in the atmosphere.
  • 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.
  • body piercing — the practice of making holes in the navel , nipples, etc so that jewellery can be worn in them
  • book scorpion — any of various small arachnids of the order Pseudoscorpionida (false scorpions), esp Chelifer cancroides, which are sometimes found in old books, etc
  • boring sponge — any of a family (Clionidae) of sponges that settle on and dissolve the shells of clams
  • bottle-opener — A bottle-opener is a metal device for removing caps or tops from bottles.
  • boundary peak — a peak in SW Nevada, in the White Mountains, near the California border: highest elevation in Nevada. 13,143 feet (4006 meters).
  • bounty jumper — in the U.S. Civil War, a man who accepted the cash bounty offered for enlisting and then deserted
  • boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
  • braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
  • bring to pass — to cause to happen
  • bromocriptine — a dopamine agonist drug which blocks the release of prolactin from the pituitary gland, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
  • 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
  • brown creeper — a small bush bird, Finschia novaeseelandiae, of South Island, New Zealand
  • brownie point — If someone does something to score brownie points, they do it because they think they will be praised for it.
  • buprenorphine — an opiate used medicinally as a powerful analgesic
  • butyrophenone — a drug used to treat psychiatric disorders
  • 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.
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