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13-letter words containing p, r, e, u, a

  • carpetmuncher — Alternative form of carpet muncher.
  • century plant — an agave, Agave americana, native to tropical America but naturalized elsewhere, having very large spiny greyish leaves and greenish flowers on a tall fleshy stalk. It blooms only once in its life, after 10 to 30 years (formerly thought to flower after a century)
  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
  • chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
  • chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
  • chemautotroph — an organism, such as a bacterium, that obtains its energy from inorganic reactions using simple compounds, such as ammonia or hydrogen sulphide
  • choripetalous — polypetalous
  • church parade — a parade by servicemen or members of a uniformed organization for the purposes of attending religious services
  • claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
  • clear-up rate — the percentage of a category of crimes that are solved
  • computer game — A computer game is a game that you play on a computer or on a small portable piece of electronic equipment.
  • cor pulmonale — pulmonary heart disease: a serious heart condition in which there is enlargement and failure of the right ventricle resulting from lung disease
  • corpora lutea — corpus luteum
  • costume party — A costume party or costume ball is a party at which the guests try to look like famous people or people from history, from stories, or from particular professions.
  • counterplayer — a person who makes a counterplay
  • counterscarps — Plural form of counterscarp.
  • coup de grace — A coup de grace is an action or event which finally destroys something, for example an institution, which has been gradually growing weaker.
  • court plaster — a plaster, composed of isinglass on silk, formerly used to cover superficial wounds
  • crapulousness — The state or quality of being crapulous.
  • crustal plate — a large block or tabular section of the lithosphere that reacts to tectonic forces as a unit and moves as such.
  • cup and cover — a turning used in Elizabethan and Jacobean furniture and resembling a goblet with a domed cover.
  • cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
  • custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae
  • daguerreotype — one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour
  • daguerreotypy — The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes.
  • daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
  • dairy produce — food derived from or containing milk and its derivatives
  • dendrophagous — feeding on the wood of trees, as certain insects.
  • departure tax — Departure tax is a tax that airline passengers have to pay in order to use an airport.
  • dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
  • disreputation — disrepute.
  • dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
  • double spread — any pair of facing pages in a completed book, magazine, etc.
  • doublespeaker — a person who uses doublespeak
  • drum paneling — flush paneling in a door.
  • durable press — permanent press.
  • east prussian — a former province in NE Germany: an enclave separated from Germany by the Polish Corridor; now divided between Poland and the Russian Federation. 14,283 sq. mi. (36,993 sq. km). Capital: Königsberg.
  • eccremocarpus — any plant of the evergreen climbing genus Eccremocarpus, esp E. scaber, grown for its decorative pinnate foliage and bright orange-red bell flowers: family Bignoniaceae
  • empty quarter — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
  • empyreumatise — to render empyreumatic
  • empyreumatize — to infect or spoil with empyreuma
  • equipartition — the equal division of the energy of a system in thermal equilibrium between different degrees of freedom. This principle was assumed to be exact in classical physics, but quantum theory shows that it is true only in certain special cases
  • equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
  • equiponderate — To counterbalance.
  • european plan — a hotel rate of charging covering room and service but not meals
  • european sole — Solea solea, a tongue-shaped flatfish of the family Soleidae, also known as Dover sole or common sole: prefers shallow waters and is highly valued as a food fish
  • european toad — a European toad, Alytes obstetricans, the male of which carries the fertilized eggs on its hind legs until they hatch: family Discoglossidae
  • european wasp — a large black-and-yellow banded wasp, Vespula germanica, native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia, now established in Australasia and the US
  • eusporangiate — (of ferns) having each sporangium developing from a group of cells, rather than a single cell, and with no specialized dispersal of spores
  • exploratorium — A museum or similar institution that encourages visitors to explore the exhibits in a hands-on manner.
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