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13-letter words containing n, p

  • 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.
  • appurtenances — accessories or equipment
  • 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.
  • aptitudinally — in a manner that indicates aptitude
  • 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.
  • as it happens — You use as it happens in order to introduce a statement, especially one that is rather surprising.
  • ascoli piceno — a town in E central Italy, in the Marches: capital of the Roman province of Picenum; site of the massacre of all its Roman citizens in the Social War in 90 bc. Pop: 51 375 (2001)
  • aspirationals — Plural form of aspirational.
  • assistantship — a graduate post which requires the student to carry out some teaching duties in return for financial assistance
  • assumptionist — Augustinian of the Assumption.
  • 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
  • asti spumante — a sweet, sparkling Italian white wine with a muscat flavor.
  • at knifepoint — If you are attacked or robbed at knifepoint, someone threatens you with a knife while they attack or steal from you.
  • at this point — at this moment in time
  • atlantic pact — North Atlantic Treaty.
  • atomic weapon — a weapon in which energy is provided by nuclear fission
  • auction pitch — a variety of all fours in which players bid to determine the trump or pitch.
  • austrian pine — an evergreen tree, Pina nigra austriaca
  • autoresponder — A program that automatically generates a set response to all messages sent to a particular e-mail address.
  • awe-inspiring — If you describe someone or something as awe-inspiring, you are emphasizing that you think that they are remarkable and amazing, although sometimes rather frightening.
  • baby elephant — a very young elephant
  • back clipping — a word formed by omitting the last part of the form from which it is derived.
  • back-slapping — Back-slapping is noisy, cheerful behaviour which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
  • backing group — a group of musicians providing an instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
  • backpedalling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
  • badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
  • baking powder — Baking powder is an ingredient used in cake making. It causes cakes to rise when they are in the oven.
  • balanced step — any of a series of staircase winders so planned that they are nearly as wide at the inside of the stair as the adjacent fliers.
  • balch springs — a town in NE Texas.
  • balneotherapy — the treatment of disease by bathing, esp to improve limb mobility in arthritic and neuromuscular disorders
  • banana spider — a large, yellowish, tropical crab spider (Heteropoda venatoria) occasionally found in bunches of bananas shipped to the Temperate Zones
  • band spectrum — a spectrum consisting of a number of bands of closely spaced lines that are associated with emission or absorption of radiation by molecules
  • banded purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
  • bandspreading — an additional tuning control in some radio receivers whereby a selected narrow band of frequencies can be spread over a wider frequency band, in order to give finer control of tuning
  • bankrupt worm — a roundworm (genus Trichostrongylus) that is an intestinal parasite of birds and mammals, especially devastating to young livestock.
  • bargain price — a low price
  • bass response — the response of an audio reproduction system or component to low frequencies
  • bay of naples — an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the SW coast of Italy
  • bay of plenty — a large bay of the Pacific on the NE coast of the North Island, New Zealand
  • 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.
  • be upstanding — (in a court of law) a direction to all persons present to rise to their feet before the judge enters or leaves the court
  • bearing plate — a heavy metal plate for receiving and distributing concentrated weight, as from a column or one end of a truss.
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