13-letter words containing p, e, l, a, n
- appealingness — the quality of being appealing
- appendiculate — having appendicles
- apple-knocker — Northern U.S. a rustic.
- apportionable — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
- apprehendable — That can be apprehended.
- apprehensible — capable of being comprehended or grasped mentally
- apprehensibly — In an apprehensive manner; cautiously.
- ascoli piceno — a town in E central Italy, in the Marches: capital of the Roman province of Picenum; site of the massacre of all its Roman citizens in the Social War in 90 bc. Pop: 51 375 (2001)
- baby elephant — a very young elephant
- backpedalling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
- balanced step — any of a series of staircase winders so planned that they are nearly as wide at the inside of the stair as the adjacent fliers.
- balneotherapy — the treatment of disease by bathing, esp to improve limb mobility in arthritic and neuromuscular disorders
- banded purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- bay of naples — an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the SW coast of Italy
- bay of plenty — a large bay of the Pacific on the NE coast of the North Island, New Zealand
- bearing plate — a heavy metal plate for receiving and distributing concentrated weight, as from a column or one end of a truss.
- bedding plane — the surface separating two successive layers of stratified rock
- bedding plant — A bedding plant is a plant which lasts for one year. It is put in a flower bed before it flowers, and is then removed when it has finished flowering.
- bedding-plant — bedmaker (def 1).
- benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
- beta-naphthol — either of two isomeric hydroxyl derivatives, C 1 0 H 7 OH, of naphthalene (alpha-naphthol or 1-naphthol and beta-naphthol or 2-naphthol) white or yellowish crystals, with a phenolic odor, that darken on exposure to light: used chiefly in dyes, drugs, perfumes, and insecticides.
- black panther — (in the US) a member of a militant Black political party (1965–82) founded to end the political dominance of White people
- blow an eprom — /bloh *n ee'prom/ (Or "blast", "burn") To program a read-only memory, e.g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip. The usage lives on (it's too vivid and expressive to discard) even though the write process on EPROMs is nondestructive.
- bull elephant — an adult male elephant
- business plan — A business plan is a detailed plan for setting up or developing a business, especially one that is written in order to borrow money.
- cap and bells — the traditional garb of a court jester, including a cap with bells attached to it
- capello index — a player rating website backed by Fabio Capello in which marks are awarded to football players in the top teams according to their performance in key skills of the game
- capstan lathe — a lathe for repetitive work, having a rotatable turret resembling a capstan to hold tools for successive operations
- capstan table — drum table.
- capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
- carpal tunnel — forearm to hand
- caryophyllene — (organic compound) A sesquiterpene (containing a cyclobutane ring) found in the essential oils of several plants such as clove and pepper.
- central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- centripetally — Towards a centre or axis.
- century plant — an agave, Agave americana, native to tropical America but naturalized elsewhere, having very large spiny greyish leaves and greenish flowers on a tall fleshy stalk. It blooms only once in its life, after 10 to 30 years (formerly thought to flower after a century)
- cephalization — (in the evolution of animals) development of a head by the concentration of feeding and sensory organs and nervous tissue at the anterior end
- cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- cephalosporin — any of a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics obtained from fungi of the genus Cephalosporium
- cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
- ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
- charter plane — a plane that has been chartered
- chimney place — an open hearth.
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- close company — a company under the control of its directors or fewer than five independent participants
- code napoleon — the civil code of France, promulgated between 1804 and 1810, comprising the main body of French civil law
- companionable — If you describe a person as companionable, you mean they are friendly and pleasant to be with.
- companionless — Without a companion; friendless, alone.
- compartmental — divided into compartments: a compartmental office; a compartmental agency.
- compass plane — a plane for smoothing curved surfaces.
- complacencies — a feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.