13-letter words containing p, e, n, d
- expeditionist — (rare) One who goes on an expedition.
- expendability — The state or quality of being expendable.
- exponentiated — Simple past tense and past participle of exponentiate.
- extended-play — denoting an EP record
- fanfold paper — continuous paper perforated at regular intervals, as used in a dot-matrix printer
- field captain — a member of a team taking active part in a game who is authorized to make decisions for the team, especially in regard to planning plays, deciding whether to accept penalties called by an official against the opponents, etc.
- field spaniel — one of a British breed of spaniels having a flat or slightly waved, usually black coat, used for hunting and retrieving game.
- filipendulous — Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
- fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
- fingerprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerprint.
- folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
- free-spending — spending or tending to spend freely: If you don't mend your free-spending ways, you'll go bankrupt.
- freudian slip — (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes.
- gelandesprung — a jump, usually over an obstacle, in which one plants both poles in the snow in advance of the skis, bends close to the ground, and propels oneself chiefly by the use of the poles.
- get-up-and-go — energy, drive, and enthusiasm.
- golden plover — either of two plovers of the genus Pluvialis, having the back marked with golden-yellow spots, P. apricaria, of Europe, or P. dominica, of America.
- gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
- grand drapery — a valance across the proscenium arch, forming part of the decorative frame for the stage.
- grand opening — celebratory first-day event
- grand prairie — a city in NE Texas.
- grandparental — Of or relating to a grandparent.
- groundkeepers — Plural form of groundkeeper.
- groundskeeper — a person who is responsible for the care and maintenance of a particular tract of land, as an estate, a park, or a cemetery.
- gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- haphazardness — characterized by lack of order or planning, by irregularity, or by randomness; determined by or dependent on chance; aimless.
- hemiterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C5 skeleton.
- heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid
- heptaselenide — (chemistry) any selenide containing seven selenium atoms in each molecule.
- herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
- high-spending — spending more than is necessary or appropriate
- hub-and-spoke — of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
- hunt and peck — a slow and inefficient method of typing by looking for each key separately before striking it: used by untrained typists.
- hunt-and-peck — a method of typing while looking at the keyboard, usually using only the forefingers to press the keys
- hydroairplane — a hydroplane.
- hydromorphone — A synthetic narcotic analgesic, (4,5 alpha-epoxy-3-hydroxy-17-methyl morphinan-6-one), similar to morphine and heroin. It is used for moderate to severe pain under the trade name Dilaudid.
- hyperadenosis — abnormal enlargement of the glands, especially of the lymph nodes.
- hyperextended — Extremely long; extended greatly.
- hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
- iceland poppy — any of various widely cultivated arctic poppies, esp Papaver nudicaule, with white or yellow nodding flowers
- imponderables — Plural form of imponderable.
- improvidently — In an improvident manner.
- in deep water — the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
- in despite of — in spite of
- in good shape — person: fit, healthy
- incapacitated — unable to act, respond, or the like (often used euphemistically when one is busy or otherwise occupied): He can't come to the phone now—he's incapacitated.
- indentureship — a deed or agreement executed in two or more copies with edges correspondingly indented as a means of identification.
- independantly — Misspelling of independently.
- independently — not influenced or controlled by others in matters of opinion, conduct, etc.; thinking or acting for oneself: an independent thinker.
- indian empire — British India and the Indian states ruled by native princes but under indirect British control: dissolved in 1947 and absorbed into India and Pakistan.
- indirect jump — (programming) A jump via an indirect address, i.e. the jump instruction contains the address of a memory location that contains the address of the next instruction to execute. The location containing the address to jump to is sometimes called a vector. Indirect jumps make normal code hard to understand because the jump target is a run-time property of the program that depends on the execution history. They are useful for, e.g. allowing user code to replace operating system code or setting up event handlers.