13-letter words containing p, i, n, e
- opening night — the first performance of a theatrical attraction, taking place in the evening: The audience was full of celebrities on opening night.
- operationally — able to function or be used; functional: How soon will the new factory be operational?
- operativeness — (uncountable) The state or quality of being operative.
- opinionatedly — In an opinionated manner.
- opportunities — Plural form of opportunity.
- opsonic index — the ratio of the number of bacteria destroyed by phagocytes in the blood of a test patient to the number destroyed in the blood of a normal individual
- optical bench — an apparatus, as a special table or rigid beam, for the precise positioning of light sources, screens, and optical instruments used for optical and photometric studies, having a ruled bar to which these devices can be attached and along which they can be readily adjusted.
- outmanipulate — to surpass in manipulation
- outperforming — Present participle of outperform.
- outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
- over-cropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
- over-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- over-shipment — an act or instance of shipping freight or cargo.
- overexpansion — the act or process of expanding.
- overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
- overpotential — overvoltage.
- overprovision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- overreporting — an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.: a report on the peace conference; a medical report on the patient.
- pacific ocean — an ocean bordered by the American continents, Asia, and Australia: largest ocean in the world; divided by the equator into the North Pacific and the South Pacific. 70,000,000 sq. mi. (181,300,000 sq. km); greatest known depth, 35,433 feet (10,800 meters).
- packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- paddle tennis — a game combining elements of tennis and handball, played with paddles and a rubber ball on a screened court about half the size of and having a lower net than a tennis court.
- paediatrician — A paediatrician is a doctor who specializes in treating sick children.
- painted horse — paint (def 6).
- painted snipe — either of two snipelike birds of the family Rostratulidae, of South America and the Old World tropics, the female of which is larger and more brightly colored than the male.
- painted woman — a prostitute; slut.
- painterliness — the quality of being painterly
- paleomagnetic — Geology. magnetic polarization acquired by the minerals in a rock at the time the rock was deposited or solidified.
- paleosiberian — a group of languages comprising those languages of Siberia that are not affiliated with Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic, or Eskimo-Aleut and including the Chukotian family and the unrelated language isolates Ket, Nivkh, and Yukaghir; Paleo-Asiatic.
- palette knife — a thin blade of varying flexibility set in a handle and used for mixing colors or applying them to a canvas.
- palingenesist — a person who believes in a doctrine of rebirth or transmigration of souls.
- palletization — to place (materials) upon pallets for handling or moving.
- pan-germanism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
- pan-teutonism — Pan-Germanism.
- panaesthetism — the belief that consciousness may be present in all matter
- panel heating — heating of a room or building by means of wall, ceiling, floor, or baseboard panels containing heating pipes or electrical conductors.
- panel patient — a patient insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme
- panel-beating — the act of beating out the bodywork of motor vehicles
- panic selling — widespread selling of a security or investment, causing sharp price declines. Usually caused by an unexpected event seen to devalue the security.
- panleucopenia — a viral disease of cats marked by a deficiency of white blood cells
- panleukopenia — distemper1 (def 1c).
- panradiometer — an instrument used for measuring radiant heat independently of wavelength
- pantagruelian — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- 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.
- pantheologist — a student of, or expert in, pantheology
- pantie girdle — a girdle with a crotch.
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- para-centesis — puncture of the wall of a cavity to drain off fluid.
- parainfluenza — an influenzalike respiratory infection of animals and humans, caused by any of several paramyxoviruses.
- paralipomenon — Chronicles.