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13-letter words containing p, r, e, s, a, l

  • marlinespikes — Plural form of marlinespike.
  • master policy — a single policy covering a group of people, typically employees of a company, issued to an employer.
  • matripotestal — of or relating to the authority exercised by a mother or a mother's blood relatives.
  • metropolitans — Plural form of metropolitan.
  • microcapsules — Plural form of microcapsule.
  • microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
  • multiple star — three or more stars lying close together in the celestial sphere and usually united in a single gravitational system.
  • multispectral — (of an airborne camera or scanner) capable of sensing and recording radiation from invisible as well as visible parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • nail clippers — tool for cutting finger- and toenails
  • nanoparticles — Plural form of nanoparticle.
  • natural slope — the maximum angle at which soil will lie in a bank without slipping
  • ne plus ultra — the highest point; acme.
  • necrophiliacs — Plural form of necrophiliac.
  • non-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • nonperishable — not subject to rapid deterioration or decay: A supply of nonperishable food was kept for emergencies.
  • opera glasses — small binoculars
  • overappraisal — An appraisal that overvalues something.
  • overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • painterliness — the quality of being painterly
  • palaeocrystic — consisting of former glacial formation
  • paleosiberian — a group of languages comprising those languages of Siberia that are not affiliated with Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic, or Eskimo-Aleut and including the Chukotian family and the unrelated language isolates Ket, Nivkh, and Yukaghir; Paleo-Asiatic.
  • pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
  • 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.
  • papaprelatist — a supporter of papal prelates
  • paper-shelled — having a thin, easily broken shell: paper-shelled nuts.
  • paradise lost — an epic poem (1667) by John Milton.
  • parallel bars — (used with a plural verb) a gymnasium apparatus consisting of two wooden bars on uprights, adjustable in height, and used for swinging, vaulting, balancing exercises, etc.
  • parallelistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a parallelism.
  • paraphrasable — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
  • parasexuality — parasexual behaviour
  • paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
  • parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
  • parnell shout — a social occasion where each person in a group pays for his or her own entertainment or meal
  • parsley piert — a small N temperate rosaceous plant, Aphanes arvensis, having fan-shaped leaves and small greenish flowers
  • parsley sauce — a white sauce containing chopped parsley
  • parsons table — a square or rectangular table, often of lightweight material, with straight legs that are square in cross section and of the same thickness as the top extending from the corners flush with the top so as to appear jointless.
  • pascal celery — any of several large, dark-green varieties of celery with firm, crisp stalks
  • passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
  • pastel orange — suntan (def 3).
  • pastoral care — help with personal needs and problems given by a teacher
  • paterfamilias — the male head of a household or family, usually the father.
  • paternalistic — the system, principle, or practice of managing or governing individuals, businesses, nations, etc., in the manner of a father dealing benevolently and often intrusively with his children: The employees objected to the paternalism of the old president.
  • patripotestal — Anthropology. of or relating to the authority exercised by a father or a father's blood relatives.
  • pearl essence — a lustrous, silvery-white substance obtained from the scales of certain fishes or derived synthetically, as from mercuric chloride: used chiefly in the manufacture of simulated pearls and as a pigment in lacquer (pearl lacquer)
  • pearly whites — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • pedal pushers — women's short trousers
  • peirastically — in a peirastic manner
  • penalty rates — rates of pay, such as double time, paid to employees working outside normal working hours
  • peninsula war — a war (1808–14) in Spain and Portugal, with British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops opposing the French.
  • peninsularity — the state or fact of being a peninsula
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