13-letter words containing p, i, n, e
- irish pennant — an unwhipped rope end.
- irresponsible — said, done, or characterized by a lack of a sense of responsibility: His refusal to work shows him to be completely irresponsible.
- irresponsibly — said, done, or characterized by a lack of a sense of responsibility: His refusal to work shows him to be completely irresponsible.
- isle of pines — Isle of, former name of Youth, Isle of.
- isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
- isoproterenol — a beta-adrenergic receptor agonist, C 11 H 17 NO 3 , used as a bronchodilator.
- japanese chin — one of a Japanese breed of toy dogs having a long, silky, black and white or red and white coat and a tail carried over the back.
- japanese iris — a plant, Iris kaempferi, native to Japan, having broad, showy flowers in a variety of colors.
- japanese mink — a dark-brown arboreal marten, Martes melampus, native to Japan, having a long body and bushy tail.
- japanese silk — raw silk of usually high quality produced in Japan, used in the manufacture of such fabrics as shantung and habutai.
- jasperization — The act or process of jasperizing.
- jeune premier — the male juvenile lead in a play or movie.
- joint partner — a person who shares the ownership of a firm or business equally with another or others
- jointer plane — a plane for truing the edges of boards, planing large surfaces, etc.
- joseph stalin — Joseph V (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili or Dzugashvili) 1879–1953, Soviet political leader: secretary general of the Communist Party 1922–53; premier of the U.S.S.R. 1941–53.
- jovian planet — any of the four large outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- judeo-spanish — Ladino (def 1).
- jumping genes — transposon.
- jumping mouse — any of several primitive, mouselike rodents of the family Zapodidae, having long hind legs, common in the woodlands of Europe, Asia, and North America.
- junggar pendi — an arid region of W China, in N Xinjiang between the Altai Mountains and the Tian Shan
- juniper berry — the berrylike cone of a juniper.
- jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
- keep in touch — stay in contact
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- kidney-shaped — having the general shape of a long oval indented at one side; reniform: a kidney-shaped swimming pool.
- killing spree — a series of murders that are committed
- kinematograph — cinematograph.
- kinesipathist — someone who uses kinesipathy to treat diseases
- kinesitherapy — a movement-based therapy
- king's speech — (in the British Parliament) a speech reviewing domestic conditions and foreign relations, prepared by the ministry in the name of the sovereign, and read at the opening of the Parliament either by the sovereign in person or by commission.
- kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- klipspringers — Plural form of klipspringer.
- knobcone pine — a pine, Pinus attenuata, of the Pacific coast of the U.S., bearing cones with knoblike scales.
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- lake winnipeg — a lake in S Canada, in Manitoba: drains through the Nelson River into Hudson Bay. Area: 23 553 sq km (9094 sq miles)
- landing speed — the minimum air speed at which an aircraft lands safely
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- laser pointer — a portable laser that emits monochromatic light over a long and narrow distance, used especially as a pointing device.
- laser printer — Computers. a high-speed printer that uses a laser to form dot-matrix patterns and an electrostatic process to fuse metallic particles to paper a page at a time: capable of producing a variety of character fonts, graphics, and other symbols.
- latent period — Also, latency period. Pathology. the interval between exposure to a carcinogen, toxin, or disease-causing organism and development of a consequent disease.
- leap-frogging — a game in which players take turns in leaping over another player bent over from the waist.
- lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- leptomeninges — The inner two meninges, the arachnoid and the pia mater, between which circulates the cerebrospinal fluid.
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- level pegging — If two opponents in a competition or contest are level pegging, they are equal with each other.
- license plate — a plate or tag, usually of metal, bearing evidence of official registration and permission, as for the use of a motor vehicle.
- like ninepins — If you say that people or things are going down like ninepins, you mean that large numbers of them are suddenly becoming ill, collapsing, or doing very badly.
- line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.