13-letter words containing p, a, r, i, t
- pornification — the perceived pervasion of society in general or an aspect of it by the imagery, language, and attitudes associated with pornography
- port adelaide — the chief port of South Australia, near Adelaide on St Vincent Gulf. Pop: 33 145 (2006)
- port of spain — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.
- port-of-spain — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.
- porte-monnaie — a purse or pocketbook
- portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
- portrait mode — an orientation that is vertical rather than horizontal
- posix threads — (programming) (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
- post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
- post-prandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
- post-socratic — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
- post-tertiary — denoting or formed after the Tertiary period of geological time
- postauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
- postconciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
- postcranially — affecting the postcranium
- posterization — a process for producing a posterlike, high-contrast color reproduction from continuous-tone art by using separation negatives of various densities.
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- postlapsarian — occurring or being after the Fall.
- postoperative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- posttraumatic — occurring after physical or psychological trauma.
- potomac river — a river flowing SE from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland and Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay. 287 miles (460 km) long.
- potty trained — Potty trained means the same as toilet trained.
- power station — a generating station.
- practical art — an art or craft, as woodworking or needlework, that serves a utilitarian purpose.
- practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- practice exam — an informal examination taken as a preparation for an actual or formal examination
- practice game — any informal game (of sports, chess, etc) played as preparation for a real game
- praecipitatio — Meteorology. precipitation from a cloud that reaches the surface of the earth (distinguished from virga).
- praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
- pragmatically — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
- prairie skirt — a full, dirndl-style skirt with a flounce on the bottom edge that is sometimes trimmed or lined to suggest a petticoat underneath.
- prairie state — Illinois (used as a nickname).
- prairie style — the style of the architects of the Prairie School.
- pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- pre-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
- pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
- pre-eclamptic — a woman suffering from pre-eclampsia
- pre-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
- pre-migration — the process or act of migrating.
- pre-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- preadaptation — a structure or property that developed in an ancestral stock and was useful in a descendant in a changed environment.
- preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
- preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
- preantiseptic — (especially of surgery) noting that period of time before the adoption of the principles of antisepsis (about 1867).
- 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.