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13-letter words containing p, r, e, i

  • piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
  • pickerel frog — a meadow frog, Rana palustris, common in eastern North America, similar to the leopard frog but with squarish dark spots on the back.
  • pickup camper — camper (def 3).
  • pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
  • picture frame — mount for a picture
  • picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
  • picture plane — the plane of a painting, drawing, or the like, that is in the extreme foreground of a picture, is coextensive with but not the same as the material surface of the work, is the point of visual contact between the viewer and the picture, and is conceived as a major structural element in the production of abstract or illusionistic forms.
  • picturesquely — visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village.
  • piece of work — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
  • piezoelectric — electricity, or electric polarity, produced by the piezoelectric effect.
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pilaster mass — an engaged pier, usually plain, used as a buttress.
  • pilot officer — A pilot officer is an officer of low rank in the British Royal Air Force.
  • pilsner-glass — a pale, light lager beer.
  • pimple copper — a form of copper matte about 80 percent pure, somewhat less refined than blister copper.
  • pinar del rio — a city in W Cuba.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • pinellas park — a city in W central Florida.
  • piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
  • pise-de-terre — a mixture of sand, loam, clay, and other ingredients rammed hard within forms as a building material.
  • piss all over — to be far superior to
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • pitcher plant — any of various insectivorous New World bog plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, and Heliamphora, having tubular or trumpet-shaped leaves containing a liquid in which insects are trapped.
  • pitter-patter — the sound of a rapid succession of light beats or taps, as of rain, footsteps, etc.
  • placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • plain bearing — any of various bearings, not containing rolling elements, that present to the shaft or axle they support broad areas of corresponding form, usually segments of a cylinder.
  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
  • play for time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • pleasure trip — holiday, vacation
  • plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
  • pleurisy root — a North American milkweed, Asclepias tuberosa, whose root was used as a remedy for pleurisy.
  • plique-a-jour — an enameling technique in which the colored enamels are fused into the spaces of a wire framework on a temporary backing; the backing is then removed, producing a translucent effect
  • plunging fire — artillery or other fire that strikes the ground at a steep angle, as from high ground overlooking the target or from a weapon fired at a high angle of elevation.
  • plural eulisp — EuLisp with parallel extensions. "Collections and Garbage Collection", S.C. Merall et al, in Memory Management - IWMM92, Springer 1992, pp.473-489.
  • pluripresence — presence in more than one place at the same time
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • police escort — a police officer or vehicle which accompanies a prisoner
  • police record — an official file, held by the police, containing details of any criminal offences committed by an individual
  • polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
  • pollice verso — with thumbs turned downward: the sign made by spectators calling for the death of a defeated gladiator in the ancient Roman circus.
  • polliniferous — Botany. producing or bearing pollen.
  • 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.
  • pommes frites — French fries
  • pony trekking — the act of riding ponies cross-country, esp as a pastime
  • poor relation — If you describe one thing as a poor relation of another, you mean that it is similar to or part of the other thing, but is considered to be inferior to it.
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