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13-letter words containing p, r, a, i, e, g

  • partridge pea — a North American plant, Cassia fasciculata, of the legume family, having yellow flowers and feathery compound leaves that fold shut when touched.
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • peregrination — travel from one place to another, especially on foot.
  • peregrinatory — tending to peregrinate; relating to or characteristic of a traveller
  • perigastritis — the inflammation of the part of the peritoneum surrounding the stomach
  • perigean tide — an ocean tide that occurs in the spring, when the moon is at its perigee.
  • periwig chair — a chair of c1700 having a high, caned back with an elaborately carved cresting.
  • pertaining to — having to do with
  • pharyngealize — to pronounce with pharyngeal coarticulation.
  • phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
  • phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
  • photoallergic — photosensitive.
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pilsner-glass — a pale, light lager beer.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
  • placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • plain bearing — any of various bearings, not containing rolling elements, that present to the shaft or axle they support broad areas of corresponding form, usually segments of a cylinder.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
  • practice game — any informal game (of sports, chess, etc) played as preparation for a real game
  • prague spring — a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.
  • praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
  • pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
  • pre-migration — the process or act of migrating.
  • pre-organized — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
  • prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
  • precipitating — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
  • predesignated — to designate beforehand.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
  • preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
  • prelitigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
  • prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
  • prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
  • progametangia — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
  • progenitorial — characteristic of a progenitor
  • prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
  • progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
  • propagandizer — a person who engages in, or subjects others to, propaganda
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