13-letter words containing p, r, e, s, i, g
- heresiography — a treatise on heresy.
- herpetologist — the branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians.
- hieroglyphics — Also, hieroglyphical. designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented.
- hieroglyphist — a person who studies hieroglyphics; hieroglyphologist.
- high pressure — intense or stressful situation
- high-pressure — having or involving a pressure above the normal: high-pressure steam.
- high-spirited — characterized by energetic enthusiasm, elation, vivacity, etc.
- horsewhipping — Present participle of horsewhip.
- hyperbolising — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- iconographies — Plural form of iconography.
- impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- impoverishing — Present participle of impoverish.
- improgressive — (archaic) Not progressive.
- interspersing — Present participle of intersperse.
- introspecting — to practice introspection; consider one's own internal state or feelings.
- ipecac spurge — a spurge, Euphorbia ipecacuanhae, of the eastern U.S.
- killing spree — a series of murders that are committed
- klipspringers — Plural form of klipspringer.
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- measuring cup — a graduated cup used especially in cooking for measuring ingredients.
- megasporangia — a sporangium containing megaspores.
- misperceiving — Present participle of misperceive.
- morphogenesis — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
- mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
- mythographies — Plural form of mythography.
- ocean springs — a town in SE Mississippi.
- open registry — ship registration under a national flag available to all ships regardless of nationality.
- opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
- orthographies — Plural form of orthography.
- outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
- 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.
- paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
- 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.
- parasite drag — the component of drag caused by skin friction and the shape of the surfaces not contributing to lift.
- paring chisel — a woodworking chisel moved by steady hand pressure to make long, light cuts.
- parma heights — a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.
- perigastritis — the inflammation of the part of the peritoneum surrounding the stomach
- perseveringly — displaying perseverance; resolutely persistent; steadfast: a persevering student.
- phase diagram — a graph, usually using temperature, pressure, and composition as coordinates, indicating the regions of stability of the various phases of a system.
- phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- pilsner-glass — a pale, light lager beer.
- 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.
- 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.
- postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
- posting error — an error made while carrying over an entry from a journal to a ledger
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- prague spring — a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.