13-letter words containing p, r, e, i, g, n
- prepossessing — that impresses favorably; engaging or attractive: a confident and prepossessing young man.
- prescreenings — the act or work of a person who screens, as in ascertaining the character and competence of applicants, employees, etc.
- press cutting — an article or picture from a newspaper about someone or something
- price cutting — the act or practice of cutting prices
- price-rigging — the illicit fixing of prices by a group of firms working as a cartel
- prick-teasing — the behaviour of a prick-tease
- primogenitrix — a primogenitor who is female
- primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
- prince george — a city in central British Columbia, in W Canada.
- prince regent — a prince who is regent of a country.
- progametangia — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- progenitorial — characteristic of a progenitor
- progestogenic — relating to progestogen
- 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
- pruning knife — a knife used for pruning
- pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
- purse strings — hold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
- putting green — green (def 24).
- 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.
- recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
- 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.
- reichspfennig — a former bronze coin of Germany, the 100th part of a reichsmark.
- repositioning — to put in a new or different position; shift: to reposition the artwork on the advertising layout.
- resting place — grave
- retrospecting — contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.
- ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
- rolling paper — cigarette paper available in small packages to smokers for rolling their own cigarettes.
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- selling price — cost at which sth is put up for sale
- sempstressing — the profession of being a seamstress
- 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
- serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
- serving spoon — utensil used to serve food
- sharecropping — the practice of cultivating farmland as a sharecropper
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- sheepshearing — an act or instance of shearing sheep.
- shepherd king — any of the Hyksos kings.
- silver spring — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- 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.
- skipping rope — A skipping rope or skip rope is a piece of rope, usually with handles at each end. You exercise or play with it by turning it round and round and jumping over it.
- skipping-rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.