13-letter words containing p, r, e, i, n
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- sheepshearing — an act or instance of shearing sheep.
- shepherd king — any of the Hyksos kings.
- ship chandler — a person who deals in cordage, canvas, and other supplies for ships.
- ship decanter — a glass decanter with a very wide base.
- 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.
- sleeping area — an area in a room or house where people can sleep
- slipper satin — a fine satin fabric with a mat finish
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- sneak preview — a preview of a motion picture, often shown in addition to an announced film, in order to observe the reaction of the audience.
- souvenir shop — a shop that sells trivial gift items, such as T-shirts, coffee mugs, keyrings etc, esp aimed at tourists
- spanish cedar — a tropical American tree, Cedrela odorata, of the mahogany family.
- spanish river — a river in S Ontario, Canada, flowing S into the North Channel of Lake Huron. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- spark erosion — a method of machining using a shaped electrode which erodes the workpiece by an electric spark discharge between itself and the workpiece
- speaking part — a part in which the character speaks scripted dialogue
- spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
- 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
- spermatotoxin — spermotoxin.
- sperry univac — (company) One of the divisions of Sperry Corporation at the time that company merged with the Burroughs Corporation to form Unisys Corporation.
- spheristerion — an area designated for ballplay
- spider monkey — any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having a slender body, long, slender limbs, and a long, prehensile tail: some are endangered.
- spine-chiller — a book, film, etc, that arouses terror
- spinning reel — a fishing reel mounted on a spinning rod, having a stationary spool on the side of which is a revolving metal arm that catches the line and winds it onto the spool as a handle is turned, the metal arm being disengaged during casting so the line spirals freely off the spool, carried by the cast lure.
- spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
- spiny lobster — any of several edible crustaceans of the family Palinuridae, differing from the true lobsters in having a spiny shell and lacking the large pincers.
- spiral nebula — (formerly) a spiral galaxy.
- spiritousness — the state of being spiritous
- splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
- splutteringly — in a spluttering manner
- sponge finger — sweet finger-shaped biscuit
- sporopollenin — an inert, tough polymer forming the resistant outer coat of a pollen grain or spore.
- sportsmanlike — a man who engages in sports, especially in some open-air sport, as hunting, fishing, racing, etc.
- spot reducing — the usually futile effort to exercise one part of the body, as the thighs, in hopes of reducing the amount of fat stored in that area.
- spread option — spread (def 25b).
- sprightliness — animated or vivacious; lively.
- 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 binder — a loose-leaf binder in which a single, long, clamplike spring, forming the spine, holds the leaves.
- spring greens — Young cabbages are sometimes referred to as spring greens.
- spring peeper — a tree frog, Hyla crucifer, having an X -shaped mark on the back and voicing a shrill call commonly heard near ponds and swamps of eastern North America in the early spring.
- 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.