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13-letter words containing p, i, r

  • brinksmanship — the technique or practice of maneuvering a dangerous situation to the limits of tolerance or safety in order to secure the greatest advantage, especially by creating diplomatic crises.
  • broca-aphasia — a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Broca's area of the brain, characterized by misarticulated speech and lack of grammatical morphemes.
  • bromide paper — a type of photographic paper coated with an emulsion of silver bromide usually containing a small quantity of silver iodide
  • 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.
  • budget period — the time which a budget covers
  • built-up roof — a usually flat or slightly sloped roof that is covered with a special material applied in sealed, waterproof layers.
  • buprenorphine — an opiate used medicinally as a powerful analgesic
  • business park — an area specially designated and landscaped to accommodate business offices, warehouses, light industry, etc
  • 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.
  • byte compiler — byte-code compiler
  • c corporation — A C corporation is a type of corporation which is taxed on its income.
  • cacographical — Synonym of cacographic.
  • caesaropapism — the theory that the state should have authority over the church in ecclesiastical matters; Erastianism
  • calligraphist — fancy penmanship, especially highly decorative handwriting, as with a great many flourishes: She appreciated the calligraphy of the 18th century.
  • calliper rule — a measuring instrument having two parallel jaws, one fixed at right angles to the end of a calibrated scale and the other sliding along it
  • camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
  • camp-drafting — a competitive test, esp at an agricultural show, of horsemen's skill in drafting cattle
  • campaniliform — Alternative form of campaniform.
  • camping chair — a chair which is suitable for use in temporary quarters, on holiday, etc, esp by being portable and easy to set up
  • cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
  • 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.
  • cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
  • cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
  • cape province — a former province of S South Africa; replaced in 1994 by the new provinces of Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and part of North-West. Capital: Cape Town
  • cape-province — a cape in S Africa, in the SW Republic of South Africa.
  • capellmeister — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp in an 18th-century princely household
  • caprification — a method of pollinating the edible fig by hanging branches of caprifig flowers in edible fig trees. Parasitic wasps in the caprifig flowers transfer pollen to the edible fig flowers
  • caprivi strip — narrow strip of land, c. 50 mi (80 km) wide, of NE Namibia, extending eastward to the Zambezi River: c. 300 mi (483 km) long
  • caprylic acid — a fatty acid, (CH3)(CH2)6COOH, with a rancid taste: used in the synthesis of dyes, drugs, perfumes, etc.
  • carbamazepine — an anticonvulsant drug used in the management of epilepsy
  • carbolic soap — a disinfectant soap containing phenol
  • carcinophobia — Inordinate dread of contracting cancer.
  • cardiographic — (physiology) Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • 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.
  • cartoon strip — A cartoon strip is a series of drawings that tells a story.
  • cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
  • cash receipts — the money a business receives from its customers over a specified period
  • cat distemper — distemper1 (def 1c).
  • catastrophise — Alt form catastrophize.
  • catastrophism — an old doctrine, now discarded, that the earth was created and has subsequently been shaped by sudden divine acts which have no logical connection with each other rather than by gradual evolutionary processes
  • catastrophist — the doctrine that certain vast geological changes in the earth's history were caused by catastrophes rather than gradual evolutionary processes.
  • catastrophize — (obsolete) To end a comedy.
  • cecropia moth — a large North American saturniid moth, Hyalophora (or Samia) cecropia, with brightly coloured wings and feathery antennae
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