13-letter words containing p, i, n, e, t
- 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.
- appendiculate — having appendicles
- apperceptions — Plural form of apperception.
- appersonation — the unconscious assumption of the personality characteristics of another, usually well known, person.
- 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.
- apprenticeage — (obsolete) Apprenticeship.
- appropinquate — to approach
- as it happens — You use as it happens in order to introduce a statement, especially one that is rather surprising.
- asti spumante — a sweet, sparkling Italian white wine with a muscat flavor.
- at knifepoint — If you are attacked or robbed at knifepoint, someone threatens you with a knife while they attack or steal from you.
- atomic weapon — a weapon in which energy is provided by nuclear fission
- austrian pine — an evergreen tree, Pina nigra austriaca
- be upstanding — (in a court of law) a direction to all persons present to rise to their feet before the judge enters or leaves the court
- bearing plate — a heavy metal plate for receiving and distributing concentrated weight, as from a column or one end of a truss.
- bedding plant — A bedding plant is a plant which lasts for one year. It is put in a flower bed before it flowers, and is then removed when it has finished flowering.
- bedding-plant — bedmaker (def 1).
- benthopelagic — relating to species living at the bottom of the sea
- 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.
- bromocriptine — a dopamine agonist drug which blocks the release of prolactin from the pituitary gland, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
- brownie point — If someone does something to score brownie points, they do it because they think they will be praised for it.
- business trip — a journey made somewhere and back again for business purposes in one's working capacity
- by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
- camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
- candidateship — candidature
- 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.
- capitate bone — the largest and central bone of the carpus, articulating with the second, third, and fourth metacarpal bones.
- captain's bed — a bed consisting of a shallow box with drawers in the side and a mattress on top.
- carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
- carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
- 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
- case in point — a specific, appropriate, or relevant instance or example
- cave painting — a painting done by prehistoric people in caves
- central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- centripetally — Towards a centre or axis.
- cephalization — (in the evolution of animals) development of a head by the concentration of feeding and sensory organs and nervous tissue at the anterior end
- chain printer — a line printer in which the type is on a continuous chain, used to print computer output
- checkpointing — Present participle of checkpoint.
- chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
- chieftainship — the chief of a clan or a tribe.
- 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
- cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.