13-letter words containing p, l, y, i
- principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
- priority mail — (in the U.S. Postal Service) mail consisting of merchandise weighing more than 12 ounces sent at first-class rates.
- prismatically — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- privy council — a board or select body of personal advisers, as of a sovereign.
- pro-celebrity — (of a golf tournament, snooker tournament, etc) involving both professional players and celebrities
- producibility — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- profitability — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- progressively — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- proleptically — anticipatorily
- proliferously — by proliferation
- promiscuously — characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis.
- promotability — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- proprietarily — belonging to a proprietor.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- protriptyline — a white to yellow powder, C 1 9 H 2 1 N, used for the treatment of depression.
- provinciality — provincial character.
- provisionally — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- prudentiality — prudential nature or practice
- psychobiology — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- psychological — of or relating to psychology.
- psychotically — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
- psychrophilic — (esp of bacteria) showing optimum growth at low temperatures
- public policy — the fundamental policy on which laws rest, especially policy not yet enunciated in specific rules.
- punctiliously — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- pusillanimity — the state or condition of being pusillanimous; timidity; cowardliness.
- put it mildly — You use to put it mildly to indicate that you are describing something in language that is much less strong, direct, or critical than what you really think.
- pyrheliometer — an instrument for measuring the total intensity of the sun's energy radiation.
- pyrolytically — in a pyrolytic manner
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quadruplicity — the state or fact of being quadruple or fourfold.
- quality point — Education. grade point.
- quality press — the more serious newspapers which give detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
- radioteletype — Also called radioteletypewriter [rey-dee-oh-tel-i-tahyp-rahy-ter, -tel-i-tahyp-rahy-] /ˌreɪ di oʊˌtɛl ɪˈtaɪpˌraɪ tər, -ˈtɛl ɪ taɪpˌraɪ-/ (Show IPA). a teletypewriter equipped for transmitting or receiving messages by radio instead of wire.
- receptibility — the quality or condition of being receptible
- reciprocality — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- rectipetality — the tendency of growing in a straight line
- repairability — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
- repeatability — to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
- repetitiously — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
- replicability — the quality or state of being replicable
- ring topology — ring network
- ripstop nylon — a nylon fabric woven with a double thread approximately every quarter inch to prevent the expansion of small rips.
- river lamprey — Lampetra fluviatilis; a jawless fish
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- salpingostomy — the formation of an artificial opening into a Fallopian tube.
- self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
- self-hypnosis — autohypnosis.