13-letter words containing p, r, a, i, e, g
- pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- racing pigeon — a pigeon bred and trained for the sport of pigeon racing
- raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
- reading group — a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a book that they have all read
- reading speed — the rate at which something is read, often expressed in terms of words per minute. Reading speed is usually determined by the purpose of reading (for comprehension, learning, memorization, etc)
- reagent strip — A reagent strip is a thin piece of paper impregnated with a reagent (= a substance that causes a chemical reaction) to a specific substance, used in testing for that substance in a body of fluid.
- reciprocating — to give, feel, etc., in return.
- regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
- reprographics — reprography.
- resting place — grave
- rolling paper — cigarette paper available in small packages to smokers for rolling their own cigarettes.
- sepia drawing — a drawing with a brownish tone, produced by first bleaching it (after fixing) and then immersing it for a short time in a solution of sodium sulphide or of alkaline thiourea
- shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- sharp-sighted — having keen sight.
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- sheepshearing — an act or instance of shearing sheep.
- single parent — mother or father without a partner
- single-parent — of or noting a family in which a parent brings up a child or children alone, without a partner: a single-parent family; a single-parent household.
- sleeping area — an area in a room or house where people can sleep
- slip carriage — a railway car detached from a moving train as it passes through a station.
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- speaking part — a part in which the character speaks scripted dialogue
- speechreading — the act or process of determining the intended meaning of a speaker by utilizing all visual clues accompanying speech attempts, as lip movements, facial expressions, and bodily gestures, used especially by people with impaired hearing.
- speed reading — a method of reading faster than normal, esp by skimming
- sperm washing — a technique that separates sperm from the seminal fluid, used especially for isolating active sperm for artificial insemination.
- spermatangium — the organ that produces spermatia in red algae.
- spermatogenic — relating to the development of spermatozoa
- spring a leak — to develop a leak
- spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
- spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
- springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- spying charge — an accusation of having taken part in espionage
- stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
- stargazey pie — a Cornish fish pie served with the head of the fish protruding through the crust
- staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
- stepparenting — parenting within a stepfamily
- straighten up — stand straighter
- string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
- supergalactic — a system of galaxies.
- supergraphics — large-scale painted or applied decorative art in bold colors and typically in geometric or typographic designs, used over walls and sometimes floors and ceilings to create an illusion of expanded or altered space.
- superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- superregional — involving many regions
- table-rapping — the sounds of knocking or tapping made without any apparent physical agency while a group of people sit round a table, and attributed by spiritualists to the spirit of a dead person using this as a means of communication with the living
- taphrogenesis — the process of forming rifts, resulting in regional faulting and subsidence
- thigh-slapper — a very funny joke, remark, story, or incident.