13-letter words containing p, r, e, m, i, g
- name-dropping — the introduction into one's conversation, letters, etc., of the names of famous or important people as alleged friends or associates in order to impress others.
- nonperforming — not performing well or properly.
- open marriage — a marriage in which the partners agree that each is free to have sexual relationships with other partners.
- outperforming — Present participle of outperform.
- pan-germanism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
- pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- paramagnetism — a body or substance that, placed in a magnetic field, possesses magnetization in direct proportion to the field strength; a substance in which the magnetic moments of the atoms are not aligned.
- parking meter — a mechanical device for registering and collecting payment for the length of time that a vehicle occupies a parking space, consisting typically of a timer, actuated by a coin that a driver deposits upon parking, set in a headpiece mounted on a pole.
- parliamenting — parliamentary debating
- parma heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- patternmaking — a person who makes patterns, as for clothing or metal castings.
- pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
- phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- 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.
- practice game — any informal game (of sports, chess, etc) played as preparation for a real game
- pre-migration — the process or act of migrating.
- predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- prefigurement — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.
- primitive gut — archenteron.
- primogenitrix — a primogenitor who is female
- primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
- progametangia — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- progressivism — the principles and practices of progressives.
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- sempstressing — the profession of being a seamstress
- sheep farming — agriculture: sheep raising
- slipstreaming — Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def 2), wash (def 31).
- 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
- spurge family — the large plant family Euphorbiaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having milky juice, simple alternate leaves or no leaves, usually petalless flowers often with showy bracts, and capsular fruit, and including cassava, croton, crown-of-thorns, poinsettia, snow-on-the-mountain, spurge, and the plants that produce castor oil, rubber, and tung oil.
- superorganism — a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
- supreme being — God.
- temporizingly — in a yielding manner
- unimpregnated — not saturated, soaked or infused (with something)
- warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.