13-letter words containing p, i, s, t
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- precapitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
- preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
- precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
- predesignated — to designate beforehand.
- predestinated — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
- predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- predistortion — preemphasis.
- prefix syntax — prefix notation
- preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- premonishment — a forewarning
- prepositional — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
- prepositioned — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- prescientific — of or relating to science or the sciences: scientific studies.
- prescriptible — subject to or suitable for prescription.
- presentiality — the state of being present
- preservations — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- presidentship — presidency.
- press cutting — an article or picture from a newspaper about someone or something
- press section — a section or part of an area, as at the scene of a public event, reserved for reporters.
- pressure suit — pressurized suit.
- presterilized — to destroy microorganisms in or on, usually by bringing to a high temperature with steam, dry heat, or boiling liquid.
- prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- presumptively — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- pretelevision — occurring before the arrival of television
- pretendership — the standing of a pretender
- pretentiously — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- preteriteness — the state of being preterite
- pretermission — to let pass without notice; disregard.
- preuniversity — of the period before attending university
- price support — the maintenance of the price of a commodity, product, etc., especially by means of a public subsidy or government purchase of surpluses.
- prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
- priest-ridden — dominated or governed by or excessively under the influence of priests
- primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
- primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- primitiveness — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- primitivistic — a recurrent theory or belief, as in philosophy or art, that the qualities of primitive or chronologically early cultures are superior to those of contemporary civilization.
- primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
- princess post — (in a queen truss) one of two vertical suspension members supplementing the queen posts nearer to the ends of the span.
- print spooler — a program that sequences printing jobs by temporarily storing data in a buffer and processing the jobs sequentially.
- printer's ink — a type of quick-drying ink used in printing
- priority case — a matter that takes precedence over others
- prism diopter — a unit of prismatic deviation, in which the number one represents a prism that deflects a beam of light a distance of one centimeter on a plane placed normal to the initial direction of the beam and one meter away from the prism.
- prismatically — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
- private parts — genitalia
- private press — a printing establishment primarily run as a pastime
- private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes