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13-letter words containing p, o, r, l

  • flavopurpurin — a yellow, crystalline anthraquinone dye, C 14 H 8 O 5 , isomeric with purpurin.
  • florianopolis — a state in S Brazil. 36,856 sq. mi. (95,455 sq. km). Capital: Florianópolis.
  • flower people — (esp during the 1960s) young people whose behaviour, dress, use of drugs, etc implied a rejection of conventional values, and who used flowers to symbolize peace and naturalness
  • flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
  • fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
  • fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
  • fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
  • fluoroscopist — One who carries out fluoroscopy.
  • folding press — a fall in wrestling won by folding one's opponent's legs up to his head and pressing his shoulders to the floor
  • fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
  • fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
  • foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
  • french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
  • french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
  • friction pile — a pile depending on the friction of surrounding earth for support.
  • frontopalatal — articulated with the portion of the tongue that is just behind the tip touching or near the alveolar ridge and hard palate, as ( (ʃ) ; sh) ) and (; ʒ) ; zh) )
  • gallop rhythm — an abnormal heart rhythm characterized by three clear sounds in each beat, resembling the sound of a horse's gallop.
  • gentle-person — a person of good family and position; gentleman or lady.
  • geomorphology — the study of the characteristics, origin, and development of landforms.
  • gerontophilia — sexual attraction towards old people
  • gladiatorship — the work of a gladiator
  • glossographer — a glossator.
  • glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
  • gödel's proof — a proof that in a formal axiomatic system such as logic or mathematics it is impossible to prove consistency without using methods from outside the system, demonstrated by Kurt Gödel (1906–78)
  • golden plover — either of two plovers of the genus Pluvialis, having the back marked with golden-yellow spots, P. apricaria, of Europe, or P. dominica, of America.
  • gopher client — (networking)   A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
  • gospel singer — a singer performing gospel music
  • graph plotter — plotter
  • graphic algol — (language)   A extension of ALGOL 60 for real-time generation of shaded perspective pictures.
  • graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
  • graphological — Relating to graphology.
  • heart of palm — the stripped terminal bud of a cabbage palm, especially of the genus Euterpe, eaten in salads or as a vegetable.
  • heart problem — a defect or disease of the heart
  • heliographing — Present participle of heliograph.
  • heliotropical — heliotropic
  • hepatobiliary — Of, pertaining to, or originating in the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
  • hepatojugular — (medicine) Relating to the liver and the jugular vein.
  • herpetologist — the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians.
  • heteroplastic — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
  • heteropolitan — a heterosexual man, typically living in a city, whose attitudes and interests are regarded as masculine but not excessively so
  • hieroglyphics — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
  • hieroglyphist — a person who studies hieroglyphics; hieroglyphologist.
  • hockey player — sportsperson: plays hockey
  • homalographic — representing parts with like proportions.
  • homolographic — representing parts with like proportions.
  • homopolymeric — relating to or made of homopolymers
  • horripilation — a bristling of the hair on the skin from cold, fear, etc.; goose bumps.
  • hospital care — medical treatment provided in a hospital
  • hot gospeller — a person who preaches in a fervent and vocal way, esp in evangelical churches
  • house slipper — a slipper worn in the house or indoors, often distinguished from a bedroom slipper by having a back and heel.
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