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13-letter words containing p, r, i, c

  • direct speech — actual words spoken, not quoted or reported
  • directorships — Plural form of directorship.
  • disappearance — the act or an instance of disappearing; a ceasing to be seen or to exist.
  • discographies — Plural form of discography.
  • discrepancies — the state or quality of being discrepant or in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency: The discrepancy between the evidence and his account of what happened led to his arrest.
  • dispurveyance — the lack of provisions
  • disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
  • disrespecting — Present participle of disrespect.
  • disrespective — (obsolete) Showing a lack of respect; disrespectful.
  • drop a stitch — to allow a loop of wool to fall off a knitting needle accidentally while knitting
  • dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
  • ectoparasites — Plural form of ectoparasite.
  • ectoparasitic — Of or pertaining to ectoparasites.
  • electrooptics — the technology that deals with the production, control, and detection of light by electrical devices
  • electrophiles — Plural form of electrophile.
  • electrophilic — (of a molecule or group) having a tendency to attract or acquire electrons.
  • electrophonic — Relating to electronic equipment to produce sound (this adjectival sense is not comparable).
  • electrotyping — The act or process of making electrotypes.
  • electrotypist — an electrotyper
  • empiricalness — Quality of being empirical.
  • enantiotropic — relating to enantiotropy
  • endoparasitic — Of or pertaining to endoparasites.
  • enterohepatic — Relating to or denoting the circulation of bile salts and other secretions from the liver to the intestine, where they are reabsorbed into the blood and returned to the liver.
  • epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
  • epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
  • eproctophilia — Sexual arousal from flatulence.
  • ergatomorphic — pertaining to an ergatomorph
  • escape artist — escapologist
  • ethnographica — a collection of ethnographic items
  • euler-chelpin — Hans (Karl August) von. 1873–1964, Swedish biochemist, born in Germany: shared the Nobel prize for chemistry (1929) with Sir Arthur Harden for their work on enzymes: father of Ulf von Euler
  • expectorating — Present participle of expectorate.
  • expectoration — The action of expectorating, of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs by coughing, hawking, or spitting.
  • expectorative — an expectorant medicine
  • expert advice — advice given by someone who has studied a subject thoroughly or who is very skilled at a particular job
  • export credit — a loan extended to an importer by a bank in the country of the exporter in order to finance an export operation
  • exteroception — The perception of environmental stimuli acting on the body.
  • exteroceptive — Relating to stimuli that are external to an organism.
  • extra-special — particular; exceptional
  • extraparticle — Extraparticle means relating to processes that happen outside the particles in a bed.
  • extratropical — Occurring outside the tropics, usually in temperate latitudes.
  • factory price — the price quoted for manufactured goods for pickup at the gate of a factory, before certain handling, shipping, and similar costs.
  • fingerpicking — Present participle of fingerpick.
  • fitted carpet — wall-to-wall carpeting
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • fluorographic — of or pertaining to fluorography
  • fluoroplastic — any of the plastics, as Teflon, in which hydrogen atoms of the hydrocarbon chains are replaced by fluorine atoms.
  • fluoroscoping — Present participle of fluoroscope.
  • fluoroscopist — One who carries out fluoroscopy.
  • fore clipping — a word formed by omitting the first part of the form from which it is derived.
  • french polish — French polish is a type of varnish which is painted onto wood so that the wood has a hard shiny surface.
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