13-letter words containing p, i, l, u, e
- public office — position in government
- public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
- pull a fastie — to play a sly trick
- pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
- pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
- purkinje cell — a large, densely branching neuron in the cerebellar cortex of the brain.
- purple martin — a large American swallow, Progne subis, the male of which is blue-black.
- purple mombin — a tree, Spondias purpurea, of tropical America, having clusters of purple or greenish flowers and yellow or dark red fruit that is edible either raw or cooked.
- purpose-built — A purpose-built building has been specially designed and built for a particular use.
- pursuit plane — (formerly) an armed airplane designed for speed and maneuverability in fighting enemy aircraft.
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- quadruplicate — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
- quality press — the more serious newspapers which give detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
- quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
- quintuplicate — a group, series, or set of five copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten matter.
- reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
- regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
- repetitiously — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
- reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
- reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
- republicanism — republican government.
- republicanize — to make republican.
- republication — publication anew.
- rumble strips — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- san luis peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains. 14,014 feet (4271 meters).
- self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- self-punitive — serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
- serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
- sesquiplicate — relating to or involving the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of given terms; i.e. the sesquiplicate ratio of given terms is the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of those terms
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
- sky-blue pink — a jocular name for a nonexistent, unknown, or unimportant colour
- sleeping suit — an all-in-one outfit that babies and young children sleep in
- speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- spinning mule — mule1 (def 7).
- spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
- spiral nebula — (formerly) a spiral galaxy.
- splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
- splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- square splice — a scarf joint between two pieces, having the form of a half-lap joint with a thicker and a thinner section for each piece, the thicker one being at the end: used to resist tension.
- stirpiculture — the production of special stocks or strains by careful breeding.
- string-puller — a person who uses his or her influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
- subdiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
- subepithelial — any animal tissue that covers a surface, or lines a cavity or the like, and that, in addition, performs any of various secretory, transporting, or regulatory functions.
- sublime porte — official name of Porte.