13-letter words containing p, e, a, n
- picture plane — the plane of a painting, drawing, or the like, that is in the extreme foreground of a picture, is coextensive with but not the same as the material surface of the work, is the point of visual contact between the viewer and the picture, and is conceived as a major structural element in the production of abstract or illusionistic forms.
- piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
- piezomagnetic — involving or relating to the production of a magnetic field by applying a mechanical stress to certain crystals
- pig in a poke — something not adequately appraised or of undetermined value, as an offering or purchase.
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- pigheadedness — stupidly obstinate; stubborn: pigheaded resistance.
- pilsner-glass — a pale, light lager beer.
- pinar del rio — a city in W Cuba.
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
- piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
- pitcher plant — any of various insectivorous New World bog plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, and Heliamphora, having tubular or trumpet-shaped leaves containing a liquid in which insects are trapped.
- place setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
- place-setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
- placentia bay — a bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the SE coast of Newfoundland, Canada, W of the Avalon Peninsula. About 100 miles (160 km) long and 80 miles (129 km) wide.
- placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
- plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
- plain bearing — any of various bearings, not containing rolling elements, that present to the shaft or axle they support broad areas of corresponding form, usually segments of a cylinder.
- plain dealing — direct and honest conduct in one's relations and transactions with others.
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- plane journey — a journey made by flying in an aeroplane
- plane sailing — sailing on a course plotted without reference to the curvature of the earth.
- plane spotter — a person who observes, photographs, and catalogues aircraft as a hobby
- planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
- planetologist — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
- plano-concave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
- plant breeder — a botanist concerned with the origin and evolution of plants
- plant hormone — an organic chemical, as auxin, produced by plant cells and functioning at various sites to regulate growth, turning, metabolic processes, etc.
- plasma engine — an engine that generates thrust by reaction to the emission of a jet of plasma
- plasma screen — A plasma screen is a type of thin television screen or computer screen that produces high-quality images.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- plastoquinone — a quinone that occurs in the chloroplasts of plants and functions as an electron carrier during photosynthesis.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- platitudinize — to utter platitudes.
- platonic love — Platonism. love of the Idea of beauty, seen as terminating an evolution from the desire for an individual and the love of physical beauty to the love and contemplation of spiritual or ideal beauty.
- platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
- platyhelminth — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes; a flatworm.
- playing field — an expanse of level ground, as in a park or stadium, where athletic events are held.
- playing games — If you say that someone is playing games or playing silly games, you mean that they are not treating a situation seriously and you are annoyed with them.
- pleasant hill — a city in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
- pleasantville — a city in SE New Jersey.
- plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
- plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
- pneumatograph — pneumograph.
- pneumatolysis — the process by which rocks are altered or minerals and ores are formed by the action of vapors given off by magma.
- pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
- pneumatometer — an instrument for measuring either the quantity of air inhaled or exhaled during a single inspiration or expiration or the force of inspiration or expiration.
- pneumatophore — Botany. a specialized structure developed from the root in certain plants growing in swamps and marshes, serving as a respiratory organ.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- point de gaze — a needlepoint lace in which delicate floral designs are sewn onto a net ground.