13-letter words containing p, l, e, a, t
- appendiculate — having appendicles
- apple fritter — a piece of apple covered in batter and deep fried
- applicatively — In an applicative manner.
- apportionable — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
- appreciatable — (chiefly,esthetics) That can be appreciated or enjoyed.
- appropriately — suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
- approximately — close to; around; roughly or in the region of
- archeptolemus — (in the Iliad) the son of Iphitus who served as a charioteer for Hector.
- armour-plated — An armour-plated vehicle or building has a hard metal covering in order to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
- aryepiglottic — pertaining to or connecting the arytenoid cartilage and the epiglottis.
- asphalt paper — paper treated with asphalt, as to increase toughness or water resistance.
- astroparticle — (astrophysics) A subatomic particle of cosmic origin.
- atmospherical — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
- atypicalities — not typical; not conforming to the type; irregular; abnormal: atypical behavior; a flower atypical of the species.
- autocephalous — (of an Eastern Christian Church) governed by its own national synods and appointing its own patriarchs or prelates
- baby elephant — a very young elephant
- balanced step — any of a series of staircase winders so planned that they are nearly as wide at the inside of the stair as the adjacent fliers.
- ballistospore — a spore, esp a fungal spore, that is forcefully ejected from its source
- balneotherapy — the treatment of disease by bathing, esp to improve limb mobility in arthritic and neuromuscular disorders
- barley stripe — a disease of barley, characterized by blighted heads and chlorotic, brown, or frayed stripes on the leaves, caused by a fungus, Helminthosporium gramineum.
- bartlett pear — a large, juicy variety of pear
- base hospital — a hospital serving a large rural area
- bay of plenty — a large bay of the Pacific on the NE coast of the North Island, New Zealand
- beam splitter — a system that divides a beam of light, electrons, etc, into two or more paths
- bear the palm — to be the winner; take the prize
- bearing plate — a heavy metal plate for receiving and distributing concentrated weight, as from a column or one end of a truss.
- beauty parlor — A beauty parlor is a place where women can go to have beauty treatments, for example, to have their hair, nails, or makeup done.
- 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
- beta particle — a high-speed electron or positron emitted by a nucleus during radioactive decay or nuclear fission
- beta-naphthol — either of two isomeric hydroxyl derivatives, C 1 0 H 7 OH, of naphthalene (alpha-naphthol or 1-naphthol and beta-naphthol or 2-naphthol) white or yellowish crystals, with a phenolic odor, that darken on exposure to light: used chiefly in dyes, drugs, perfumes, and insecticides.
- bias-ply tire — a vehicle tire in which the main plies or cords run across the bead.
- bibliotherapy — the use of reading as therapy
- biocompatible — not rejected by the body
- black panther — (in the US) a member of a militant Black political party (1965–82) founded to end the political dominance of White people
- blepharoplast — a cylindrical cytoplasmic body in protozoa
- border patrol — a government agency in charge of preventing terrorists, weapons, and illegal immigrants entering the country
- boycott apple — (legal) Some time before 1989, Apple Computer, Inc. started a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, claiming they had breeched Apple's copyright on the look and feel of the Macintosh user interface. In December 1989, Xerox failed to sue Apple Computer, claiming that the software for Apple's Lisa computer and Macintosh Finder, both copyrighted in 1987, were derived from two Xerox programs: Smalltalk, developed in the mid-1970s and Star, copyrighted in 1981. Apple wanted to stop people from writing any program that worked even vaguely like a Macintosh. If such look and feel lawsuits succeed they could put an end to free software that could substitute for commercial software. In the weeks after the suit was filed, Usenet reverberated with condemnation for Apple. GNU supporters Richard Stallman, John Gilmore and Paul Rubin decided to take action against Apple. Apple's reputation as a force for progress came from having made better computers; but The League for Programming Freedom believed that Apple wanted to make all non-Apple computers worse. They therefore campaigned to discourage people from using Apple products or working for Apple or any other company threatening similar obstructionist tactics (e.g. Lotus and Xerox). Because of this boycott the Free Software Foundation for a long time didn't support Macintosh Unix in their software. In 1995, the LPF and the FSF decided to end the boycott.
- bull elephant — an adult male elephant
- butterfly pea — any of several leguminous plants of the genus Clitoria, as C. mariana, of North America, having pale-blue flowers.
- campylobacter — a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis
- cape-flattery — Cape, a cape in NW Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula, at the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait.
- capellmeister — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp in an 18th-century princely household
- capital asset — fixed asset.
- capital lease — A capital lease is a lease which is treated as the purchase of the asset that is being leased.
- capitalizable — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
- capstan lathe — a lathe for repetitive work, having a rotatable turret resembling a capstan to hold tools for successive operations
- capstan table — drum table.
- carpal tunnel — forearm to hand