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13-letter words containing p, a, t, l, e

  • quintuplicate — a group, series, or set of five copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten matter.
  • 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.
  • rail-splitter — a person or thing that splits logs into rails, especially for fences.
  • raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
  • real property — an estate or property consisting of lands and of all appurtenances to lands, as buildings, crops, or mineral rights (distinguished from personal property).
  • realpolitiker — someone who practises or believes in realpolitik
  • reapplication — an act or the process of reapplying a substance
  • reciprocality — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
  • recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
  • rectipetality — the tendency of growing in a straight line
  • reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
  • reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
  • reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
  • 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
  • release print — Movies. print (def 31).
  • repairability — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
  • repeatability — to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
  • repeater loan — a loan lent to someone who has already borrowed
  • replicability — the quality or state of being replicable
  • representable — to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
  • republication — publication anew.
  • resting place — grave
  • reverse plate — a plate for printing a reverse.
  • rhaetian alps — a section of the central Alps along E Switzerland's borders with Austria and Italy. Highest peak: Piz Bernina, 4049 m (13 284 ft)
  • route planner — a book of road maps
  • rupert's land — (formerly, in Canada) the territories granted by Charles II to the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670 and ceded to the Canadian Government in 1870, comprising all the land watered by rivers flowing into Hudson Bay
  • sales receipt — slip or document: proof of payment
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • sample letter — an example of a particular type of letter intended to show people how to construct their own letter
  • satin slipper — a play (1925–28) by Paul Claudel.
  • sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
  • self-apparent — clear and evident without need of further evidence
  • self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
  • semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
  • semipalatinsk — a city in NE Kazakhstan, on the Irtysh River.
  • semipalmation — the state of being semipalmate
  • semipolitical — of a partially political nature; having some political features.
  • septentrional — northern; boreal
  • septisyllable — a word made up of seven syllables.
  • serial rapist — someone who carries out a series of rapes
  • sesquiplicate — relating to or involving the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of given terms; i.e. the sesquiplicate ratio of given terms is the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of those terms
  • sexploitation — the exploitation of sex in films, magazines, etc.
  • share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
  • shetland pony — one of a breed of small but sturdy, rough-coated ponies, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
  • silver-plated — Something that is silver-plated is covered with a very thin layer of silver.
  • single parent — mother or father without a partner
  • single-parent — of or noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner: a single-parent family; a single-parent household.
  • skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • slipper satin — a fine satin fabric with a mat finish
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