13-letter words containing p, r, e, d, s
- post meridiem — p.m.
- 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-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
- postmodernism — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, especially a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity.
- postmodernist — relating to late 20th-century art movement
- postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
- pre-described — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- pre-disclosed — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
- pre-discussed — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
- pre-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- 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.
- prediscussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- predistortion — preemphasis.
- preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
- prepositioned — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
- presanctified — (of the Eucharistic elements) consecrated at a previous Mass.
- presidentship — presidency.
- pressed brick — face brick molded under pressure to a desired finish.
- pressed glass — molded glass that has been shaped or given its pattern, while molten, by the action of a plunger thrust into the mold.
- pressure drag — the part of the total drag of a body moving through a gas or liquid caused by the components of the pressures at right angles to the surface of the body
- pressure head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- pressure-feed — a system in which the supply of material is maintained by applied pressure
- presterilized — to destroy microorganisms in or on, usually by bringing to a high temperature with steam, dry heat, or boiling liquid.
- pretendership — the standing of a pretender
- pride's purge — the forceful exclusion from the House of Commons, carried out by Col. Thomas Pride in December 1648, of about 100 members who favored compromise with the Royalist party.
- priest-ridden — dominated or governed by or excessively under the influence of priests
- prism diopter — a unit of prismatic deviation, in which the number one represents a prism that deflects a beam of light a distance of one centimeter on a plane placed normal to the initial direction of the beam and one meter away from the prism.
- prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes
- promised land — Heaven.
- propositioned — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
- protected sex — sexual activity during which a condom is used to protect against sexually transmitted disease and pregnancy.
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- prudentialist — a person who acts prudentially
- pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
- pseudo-colour — an artificial colour
- pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- pycnidiospore — the fruiting body of certain fungi, which contains spore-bearing cells
- quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
- radiopacities — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- random sample — a statistical sample that is devised to avoid interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population
- 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)
- red corpuscle — a red blood cell.
- redescription — the act of redescribing
- redisposition — the withdrawal and redistribution of armed forces with the aim of more effective use