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13-letter words containing p, r, e

  • contemporised — to place in or regard as belonging to the same age or time.
  • contemporized — Simple past tense and past participle of contemporize.
  • contracepting — to prevent the conception of (offspring).
  • contraception — Contraception refers to methods of preventing pregnancy.
  • contraceptive — A contraceptive method or device is a method or a device which a woman uses to prevent herself from becoming pregnant.
  • contre-partie — (in buhlwork) an inlay composed of a design in tortoise shell on a background of brass.
  • control panel — the part of a machine or piece of equipment that houses the controls
  • convertiplane — an aircraft that can land and take off vertically by temporarily directing its propulsive thrust downwards
  • cooper's hawk — a small North American hawk, Accipiter cooperii, having a bluish-grey back and wings and a reddish-brown breast
  • cooperatively — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
  • cooperativity — an interaction between structural units within a molecule or between molecules in an assemblage that enables the system to respond more sharply to an external change than would isolated units
  • copartnership — a partnership or association between two equals, esp in a business enterprise
  • copolymerized — Polymerized, along with another compound, to form a copolymer.
  • copper-fasten — to make (a bargain or agreement) binding
  • copperas cove — a town in central Texas.
  • copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
  • coprecipitate — to cause to precipitate together.
  • copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
  • cor pulmonale — pulmonary heart disease: a serious heart condition in which there is enlargement and failure of the right ventricle resulting from lung disease
  • corespondents — Plural form of corespondent.
  • corpora lutea — corpus luteum
  • corporate law — law that relates to corporations and to business activities in general
  • corporateness — the state of being a corporate body
  • corporealness — The state or quality of being corporeal.
  • corpus luteum — a yellow glandular mass of tissue that forms in a Graafian follicle following release of an ovum. It secretes progesterone, a hormone necessary to maintain pregnancy
  • correspondent — A correspondent is a newspaper or television journalist, especially one who specializes in a particular type of news.
  • corresponding — parallel; equivalent
  • corresponsive — corresponding
  • corsican pine — a pine tree, a variant of the black pine Pinus nigra var maritime, originally native to Corsica and neighbouring Mediterranean regions
  • 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.
  • cotemporality — The state or characteristic of existing or occurring during the same period of time.
  • cotransporter — (biochemistry) An integral membrane protein that actively transports molecules by using the concentration gradient of one molecule or ion concentration to force the other molecule or ion against its gradient.
  • cotton picker — a machine for harvesting cotton fibre
  • councilperson — a member of a city or local legislative council.
  • counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
  • counter-power — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
  • counterjumper — a clerk in a retail store.
  • counterperson — a person who waits on customers from behind a counter, as in a cafeteria.
  • counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.
  • counterpicket — a picket which opposes an existing picket at the same location
  • counterplayer — a person who makes a counterplay
  • counterpoints — Plural form of counterpoint.
  • counterpoised — a counterbalancing weight.
  • counterpoises — Plural form of counterpoise.
  • counterpoison — A poison used against another poison, serving as an antidote.
  • counterproofs — Plural form of counterproof.
  • counterscarps — Plural form of counterscarp.
  • countersniper — designed to act against or eliminate snipers
  • counterspying — the activities of a counterspy
  • countrypeople — countryfolk.
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