13-letter words containing p, e, r, u, s, a
- overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- papaveraceous — belonging to the Papaveraceae, the poppy family of plants.
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- paradise duck — a large duck, Casarca variegata, of New Zealand, having a brightly coloured plumage
- paramenstruum — the four days before and first four days of menstruation
- parasexuality — parasexual behaviour
- paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
- parnell shout — a social occasion where each person in a group pays for his or her own entertainment or meal
- parsley sauce — a white sauce containing chopped parsley
- parthenopaeus — a son of Hippomenes and Atalanta, and one of the Seven against Thebes.
- passe-partout — something that passes everywhere or provides a universal means of passage.
- pastry cutter — a cutter that is used to cut pastry into shapes
- paucis verbis — in or by few words; with brevity.
- pay structure — a collection of pay grades or bands, which set out the different levels of pay for workers in a certain profession, etc
- pedal pushers — women's short trousers
- peninsula war — a war (1808–14) in Spain and Portugal, with British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops opposing the French.
- peninsularity — the state or fact of being a peninsula
- perimenopause — the period leading up to the menopause during which some of the symptoms associated with menopause may be experienced
- perlustration — the act of perlustrating; a thorough inspection or survey, esp of letters for purposes of surveillance
- perscrutation — a very careful exploration or inspection
- personal foul — a foul called in certain games, as basketball or football, for illegal body contact or rough, unsportsmanlike play.
- perspicacious — having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning: to exhibit perspicacious judgment.
- pet insurance — health insurance for a pet
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- pleasure boat — recreational vessel
- pleasure dome — a large building, facility, or place used for recreation.
- pleasure trip — holiday, vacation
- plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
- pleurocarpous — (of certain mosses) bearing the fructifications along the main stem or lateral branches.
- plural eulisp — EuLisp with parallel extensions. "Collections and Garbage Collection", S.C. Merall et al, in Memory Management - IWMM92, Springer 1992, pp.473-489.
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
- polar nucleus — Botany. either of two female haploid nuclei, in the embryo sac of flowers, that fuse to produce a diploid nucleus, which combines with a male nucleus to form the endosperm.
- porcelaineous — like porcelain
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- prague spring — a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.
- precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
- preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- present value — current monetary worth
- pressure drag — the part of the total drag of a body moving through a gas or liquid caused by the components of the pressures at right angles to the surface of the body
- pressure head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes