13-letter words containing p, r, e, t, i, n
- phytonutrient — phytochemical.
- piano quartet — a musical composition scored for piano and three other instruments, typically violin, viola, and cello.
- piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
- pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
- 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.
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- 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.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
- 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.
- 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.
- poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
- port engineer — a person who is responsible for the maintenance and repair of the machinery of the vessels of a shipping line and for the supervision of its engineering personnel.
- porte-monnaie — a purse or pocketbook
- portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
- posterization — a process for producing a posterlike, high-contrast color reproduction from continuous-tone art by using separation negatives of various densities.
- posting error — an error made while carrying over an entry from a journal to a ledger
- postmodernism — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, especially a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity.
- postmodernist — relating to late 20th-century art movement
- postrecession — occurring or existing in the period after a recession
- potentiometer — a device for measuring electromotive force or potential difference by comparison with a known voltage.
- potty trained — Potty trained means the same as toilet trained.
- power station — a generating station.
- practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
- pre-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
- pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
- pre-contrived — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
- pre-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- pre-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- pre-eminently — Pre-eminently means to a very great extent.
- pre-existence — to exist beforehand.
- pre-interview — a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person: a job interview.
- pre-inventory — a complete listing of merchandise or stock on hand, work in progress, raw materials, finished goods on hand, etc., made each year by a business concern.
- pre-mentioned — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
- pre-migration — the process or act of migrating.
- pre-portioned — to divide into portions before packaging, selling, etc.: to preportion meals for schools and hospitals.
- pre-sintering — (in powder metallurgy) to heat (a compact) in preparation for sintering.
- preadaptation — a structure or property that developed in an ancestral stock and was useful in a descendant in a changed environment.
- preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
- preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
- preantiseptic — (especially of surgery) noting that period of time before the adoption of the principles of antisepsis (about 1867).
- precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
- precipitating — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- precipitation — the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.