13-letter words containing p, a, r, i, t
- provinciality — provincial character.
- provocational — the act of provoking.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- prudentialist — a person who acts prudentially
- prudentiality — prudential nature or practice
- psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
- puritan ethic — work ethic.
- puritan spoon — a silver spoon having an ovoid bowl and a straight, flat, completely plain stem.
- purple martin — a large American swallow, Progne subis, the male of which is blue-black.
- pursuit plane — (formerly) an armed airplane designed for speed and maneuverability in fighting enemy aircraft.
- pyrimethamine — a potent substance, C 1 2 H 1 3 ClN 4 , used against susceptible plasmodia in the prophylactic treatment of malaria and against Toxoplasma gondi in the treatment of toxoplasmosis.
- pyrolytically — in a pyrolytic manner
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quadricipital — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the quadriceps.
- quadripartite — divided into or consisting of four parts.
- quadruplicate — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
- quadruplicity — the state or fact of being quadruple or fourfold.
- quality press — the more serious newspapers which give detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
- quarter point — the fourth part of the distance between any two adjacent points of the 32 marked on a compass, being 2° 48′ 45″.
- quasi-private — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
- radiopacities — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- radioteletype — Also called radioteletypewriter [rey-dee-oh-tel-i-tahyp-rahy-ter, -tel-i-tahyp-rahy-] /ˌreɪ di oʊˌtɛl ɪˈtaɪpˌraɪ tər, -ˈtɛl ɪ taɪpˌraɪ-/ (Show IPA). a teletypewriter equipped for transmitting or receiving messages by radio instead of wire.
- raiding party — a group of people who together carry out a raid
- rail-splitter — a person or thing that splits logs into rails, especially for fences.
- raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
- ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
- rapid transit — a system of public transportation in a metropolitan area, usually a subway or elevated train system.
- ration coupon — a coupon that can be exchanged for a certain quantity of rationed goods
- re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
- reagent strip — A reagent strip is a thin piece of paper impregnated with a reagent (= a substance that causes a chemical reaction) to a specific substance, used in testing for that substance in a body of fluid.
- realpolitiker — someone who practises or believes in realpolitik
- reapplication — an act or the process of reapplying a substance
- reappointment — a fixed mutual agreement for a meeting; engagement: We made an appointment to meet again.
- reappropriate — suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
- reciprocality — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- reciprocating — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- reciprocation — an act or instance of reciprocating.
- reciprocative — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
- recomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
- rectipetality — the tendency of growing in a straight line
- reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
- regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
- rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
- reincorporate — to incorporate again