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13-letter words containing p, e, n, r

  • bromocriptine — a dopamine agonist drug which blocks the release of prolactin from the pituitary gland, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
  • brown creeper — a small bush bird, Finschia novaeseelandiae, of South Island, New Zealand
  • brownie point — If someone does something to score brownie points, they do it because they think they will be praised for it.
  • buprenorphine — an opiate used medicinally as a powerful analgesic
  • business park — an area specially designated and landscaped to accommodate business offices, warehouses, light industry, etc
  • business trip — a journey made somewhere and back again for business purposes in one's working capacity
  • butyrophenone — a drug used to treat psychiatric disorders
  • by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
  • camerapersons — Plural form of cameraperson.
  • cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
  • candy striper — a volunteer worker in a hospital
  • candy-striped — (esp of clothing fabric) having narrow coloured stripes on a white background
  • candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
  • cap-and-trade — denoting a scheme which allows companies with high greenhouse gas emissions to buy an emission allowance from companies which have fewer emissions, in a bid to reduce the overall impact to the environment
  • cape province — a former province of S South Africa; replaced in 1994 by the new provinces of Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and part of North-West. Capital: Cape Town
  • cape-province — a cape in S Africa, in the SW Republic of South Africa.
  • capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
  • carbamazepine — an anticonvulsant drug used in the management of epilepsy
  • carpal tunnel — forearm to hand
  • carpenter ant — any of a genus (Camponotus) of large ants that build nests in wooden buildings, tree trunks, etc. by gnawing out a complicated series of chambers
  • carpenter bee — any large solitary bee of the genus Xylocopa and related genera that lays its eggs in tunnels bored into wood or in plant stems: family Apidae
  • carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
  • carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
  • carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
  • carpetmuncher — Alternative form of carpet muncher.
  • carton-pierre — papier-mâché decorated in imitation of wood, stone, or metal, and chiefly used for ornamental statuary or decorative motifs.
  • cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
  • caryophyllene — (organic compound) A sesquiterpene (containing a cyclobutane ring) found in the essential oils of several plants such as clove and pepper.
  • ceiling price — the top price
  • center spread — the pair of pages facing each other at the center of a magazine or newspaper, printed and made up as a single unit.
  • central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • centre spread — the pair of two facing pages in the middle of a magazine, newspaper, etc, often illustrated
  • 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)
  • 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
  • chain printer — a line printer in which the type is on a continuous chain, used to print computer output
  • chaperoneship — State or position of chaperone.
  • charter plane — a plane that has been chartered
  • chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
  • chromoprotein — any of a group of conjugated proteins, such as haemoglobin, in which the protein is joined to a coloured compound, such as a metal-containing porphyrin
  • chronotherapy — an endeavour to readjust the body clock to enable a person to waken earlier by going to sleep later and later every day until the required waking hour is achieved
  • chrysophenine — a bright yellow dye derived from stilbene, used chiefly for dyeing leather and textiles.
  • churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
  • cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
  • clinopyroxene — a member of the pyroxene group of minerals having a monoclinic crystal structure, such as augite, diopside, or jadeite
  • clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
  • closing price — On the stock exchange, the closing price of a share is its price at the end of a day's business.
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