13-letter words containing p, r, a, i, e, s
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- polyarteritis — inflammation of the layers of an artery or of many arteries, usually caused by a severe hypersensitivity reaction, and characterized by nodules and hemorrhage along the involved vessels.
- porcelaineous — like porcelain
- portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
- posix threads — (programming) (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
- possessionary — of, relating to, or characterized by possession
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- 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.
- post-tertiary — denoting or formed after the Tertiary period of geological time
- posterization — a process for producing a posterlike, high-contrast color reproduction from continuous-tone art by using separation negatives of various densities.
- postoperative — occurring after a surgical operation.
- power station — a generating station.
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
- prague spring — a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.
- prairie skirt — a full, dirndl-style skirt with a flounce on the bottom edge that is sometimes trimmed or lined to suggest a petticoat underneath.
- prairie state — Illinois (used as a nickname).
- prairie style — the style of the architects of the Prairie School.
- pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- pre-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
- pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- pre-classical — of, relating to, or characteristic of Greek and Roman antiquity: classical literature; classical languages.
- pre-eclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
- pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
- preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
- preantiseptic — (especially of surgery) noting that period of time before the adoption of the principles of antisepsis (about 1867).
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- precapitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
- precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
- predesignated — to designate beforehand.
- predestinated — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
- predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- prefix syntax — prefix notation
- preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- preliminaries — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- prepositional — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- presentiality — the state of being present
- preservations — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
- prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
- primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
- primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
- primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
- principalness — the quality or position of being principal
- priority case — a matter that takes precedence over others
- prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
- prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail