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

  • antiphonaries — Plural form of antiphonary.
  • aperitif-wine — a small drink of alcoholic liquor taken to stimulate the appetite before a meal.
  • aphanipterous — of or relating to the wingless insects of the order Aphaniptera
  • apparent time — Astronomy. local time measured by the hour angle of the sun.
  • apparent wind — (wind), the velocity of air as measured from a moving object, as a ship.
  • apparentement — a coalition formed between political parties during an election.
  • apperceptions — Plural form of apperception.
  • appersonation — the unconscious assumption of the personality characteristics of another, usually well known, person.
  • 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.
  • apportionment — the act of apportioning
  • appreciations — Plural form of appreciation.
  • apprehendable — That can be apprehended.
  • apprehensible — capable of being comprehended or grasped mentally
  • apprehensibly — In an apprehensive manner; cautiously.
  • apprehensions — Plural form of apprehension.
  • apprenticeage — (obsolete) Apprenticeship.
  • appropinquate — to approach
  • appurtenances — accessories or equipment
  • arachnephobia — Misspelling of arachnophobia.
  • asthenosphere — a thin semifluid layer of the earth (100–200 km thick), below the outer rigid lithosphere, forming part of the mantle and thought to be able to flow vertically and horizontally, enabling sections of lithosphere to subside, rise, and undergo lateral movement
  • austrian pine — an evergreen tree, Pina nigra austriaca
  • autoresponder — A program that automatically generates a set response to all messages sent to a particular e-mail address.
  • awe-inspiring — If you describe someone or something as awe-inspiring, you are emphasizing that you think that they are remarkable and amazing, although sometimes rather frightening.
  • baking powder — Baking powder is an ingredient used in cake making. It causes cakes to rise when they are in the oven.
  • balneotherapy — the treatment of disease by bathing, esp to improve limb mobility in arthritic and neuromuscular disorders
  • banana spider — a large, yellowish, tropical crab spider (Heteropoda venatoria) occasionally found in bunches of bananas shipped to the Temperate Zones
  • band spectrum — a spectrum consisting of a number of bands of closely spaced lines that are associated with emission or absorption of radiation by molecules
  • banded purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
  • bandspreading — an additional tuning control in some radio receivers whereby a selected narrow band of frequencies can be spread over a wider frequency band, in order to give finer control of tuning
  • bargain price — a low price
  • bass response — the response of an audio reproduction system or component to low frequencies
  • be spoken for — If a person or thing is spoken for or has been spoken for, someone has claimed them or asked for them, so no-one else can have them.
  • bearing plate — a heavy metal plate for receiving and distributing concentrated weight, as from a column or one end of a truss.
  • benzoyl group — the univalent group C 7 H 5 O–, derived from benzoic acid.
  • binary prefix — (unit)   (Or "IEC prefix") A prefix used with a unit of data to mean multiplication by a power of 1024. Binary prefixes are most often used with "byte" (e.g. "kilobyte") but also with bit (e.g. "megabit"). For example, the term kilobyte has historically been used to mean 1024 bytes, and megabyte to mean 1,048,576 bytes. The multipliers 1024 and 1,048,576 are powers of 1024, which is itself a power of two (1024 = 2^10). It is this factor of two that gives the name "binary prefix". This is in contrast to a decimal prefix denoting a power of 1000, which is itself a power of ten (1000 = 10^3). Decimal prefixes are used in science and engineering and are specified in widely adopted SI standards. Note that the actual prefix - kilo or mega - is the same, it is the interpretation that differs. The difference between the two interpretations increases with each multiplication, so while 1000 and 1024 differ by only 2.4%, 1000^6 and 1024^6 differ by 15%. The 1024-based interpretation of prefixes is often still used informally and especially when discussing the storage capacity of random-access memory. This has lead to storage device manufacturers being accused of false marketing for using the decimal interpretation where customers might assume the larger, historical, binary interpretation. In an attempt to clarify the distinction, in 1998 the IEC specified that kilobyte, megabyte, etc. should only be used for powers of 1000 (following SI). They specified new prefixes for powers of 1024 containing "bi" for "binary": kibibyte, mebibyte, etc.; an idea originally propsed by IUPAC. IEC also specified new abbreviations Ki, Mi, etc. for the new prefixes. Many other standards bodies such as NIST, IEEE and BIPM support this proposal but as of 2013 its use is rare in non-technical circles. Specific units of IEC 60027-2 A.2 and ISO/IEC 80000
  • binary weapon — a chemical weapon consisting of a projectile containing two substances separately that mix to produce a lethal agent when the projectile is fired
  • birth parents — a child's biological parents, regardless of whether they subsequently bring up the child
  • bits per inch — (unit)   (BPI) A measure of the recording density of a magnetic tape or disk.
  • 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.
  • body piercing — the practice of making holes in the navel , nipples, etc so that jewellery can be worn in them
  • boring sponge — any of a family (Clionidae) of sponges that settle on and dissolve the shells of clams
  • bottle-opener — A bottle-opener is a metal device for removing caps or tops from bottles.
  • boundary peak — a peak in SW Nevada, in the White Mountains, near the California border: highest elevation in Nevada. 13,143 feet (4006 meters).
  • bounty jumper — in the U.S. Civil War, a man who accepted the cash bounty offered for enlisting and then deserted
  • boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
  • braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
  • bread pudding — a rich cake made with bread soaked in milk, eggs, dried fruit and spices and baked, usually eaten cold
  • breeding pair — a male and female animal that produce offspring together
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