13-letter words containing p, e, a, n
- preternatural — out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
- pretournament — occurring prior to a tournament
- prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
- pride and joy — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
- prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
- principalness — the quality or position of being principal
- prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
- prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- private brand — a product marketed under a private label.
- privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
- proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- processionary — of, relating to, or moving in a procession
- procrastinate — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procreational — having the potential to procreate
- product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
- progametangia — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- progenitorial — characteristic of a progenitor
- prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
- proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
- promised land — Heaven.
- pronominalize — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
- pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- propagandizer — a person who engages in, or subjects others to, propaganda
- proparoxytone — having an accent or heavy stress on the antepenultimate syllable.
- proportionate — proportioned; being in due proportion; proportional.
- proteinaceous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- protestantism — the religion of Protestants.
- protestantize — to convert or cause to conform to Protestantism.
- protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
- prove a point — If you prove a point, you show other people that you know something or can do something, although your action may have no other purpose.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- prudentialist — a person who acts prudentially
- prudentiality — prudential nature or practice
- prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
- psychasthenia — Psychiatry. (no longer in technical use) a neurosis marked by fear, anxiety, phobias, etc.
- psychasthenic — a person who has psychasthenia
- psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- pucciniaceous — (of a fungus) belonging to the genus Puccinia
- pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pumpkinheaded — a slow or dim-witted person; dunce.
- punjab states — (formerly) a group of states in NW India, amalgamated in 1956 with Punjab state