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13-letter words containing p, a, n, t

  • appersonation — the unconscious assumption of the personality characteristics of another, usually well known, person.
  • applicational — Of or pertaining to an application.
  • 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.
  • apprenticeage — (obsolete) Apprenticeship.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • baby elephant — a very young elephant
  • badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
  • 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.
  • balneotherapy — the treatment of disease by bathing, esp to improve limb mobility in arthritic and neuromuscular disorders
  • 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
  • bankrupt worm — a roundworm (genus Trichostrongylus) that is an intestinal parasite of birds and mammals, especially devastating to young livestock.
  • bay of plenty — a large bay of the Pacific on the NE coast of the North Island, New Zealand
  • 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.
  • bedding plant — A bedding plant is a plant which lasts for one year. It is put in a flower bed before it flowers, and is then removed when it has finished flowering.
  • bedding-plant — bedmaker (def 1).
  • benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
  • beta-naphthol — either of two isomeric hydroxyl derivatives, C 1 0 H 7 OH, of naphthalene (alpha-naphthol or 1-naphthol and beta-naphthol or 2-naphthol) white or yellowish crystals, with a phenolic odor, that darken on exposure to light: used chiefly in dyes, drugs, perfumes, and insecticides.
  • bipartisanism — the quality of being bipartisan
  • birth parents — a child's biological parents, regardless of whether they subsequently bring up the child
  • black panther — (in the US) a member of a militant Black political party (1965–82) founded to end the political dominance of White people
  • bring to pass — to cause to happen
  • bull elephant — an adult male elephant
  • 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.
  • cainotophobia — Alternative form of cainophobia.
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