13-letter words containing p, r, i, c
- french-polish — to finish or treat (a piece of furniture) with French polish.
- friction pile — a pile depending on the friction of surrounding earth for support.
- friction tape — a cloth or plastic adhesive tape, containing a moisture-resistant substance, used especially to insulate and protect electrical wires and conductors.
- frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
- gap insurance — GAP insurance pays the difference between what someone owes on their car loan and the actual cash value of the vehicle in the event that it is stolen or damaged.
- gastrohepatic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and the liver.
- gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
- gastroscopist — One who carries out gastroscopy.
- ge-pano-carib — a linguistic phylum comprising a large number of aboriginal languages with scattered distribution in South America east of the Andes.
- genetotrophic — pertaining to nutrition and genetics
- glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
- gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
- gopher client — (networking) A program which runs on your local computer and provides a user interface to the Gopher protocol and to gopher servers. Web browsers can act as Gopher clients and simple Gopher-only clients are available for ordinary terminals, the X Window System, GNU Emacs, and other systems.
- graphemically — In terms of or by means of graphemes.
- graphic algol — (language) A extension of ALGOL 60 for real-time generation of shaded perspective pictures.
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- graphics card — graphics adaptor
- graphological — Relating to graphology.
- graving piece — a piece of wood let into a wooden hull to replace decayed wood.
- grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
- greek cypriot — a Cypriot of Greek descent
- group captain — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a wing commander but junior to an air commodore in the RAF and certain other air forces
- hair clippers — device for trimming hair
- hairpin curve — A hairpin curve or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
- heliotropical — heliotropic
- helispherical — spiral
- hemiparasitic — Semiparasitic.
- hemispherical — having the form of a hemisphere.
- herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
- heterographic — Misspelled; of or pertaining to an incorrect spelling or a spelling that differs from accepted standards.
- heteromorphic — Biology. dissimilar in shape, structure, or magnitude.
- heteroplastic — the repair of lesions with tissue from another individual or species.
- heterotrophic — capable of utilizing only organic materials as a source of food.
- hieracosphinx — (in ancient Egyptian art) a hawk-headed sphinx
- 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.
- hilbert space — a complete infinite-dimensional vector space on which an inner product is defined.
- hippuric acid — a crystalline solid excreted in the urine of mammals. Formula: C9H9NO3
- hire purchase — buying sth by instalments
- hire-purchase — a system of payment for a commodity in regular installments while using it.
- homalographic — representing parts with like proportions.
- homolographic — representing parts with like proportions.
- homopolymeric — relating to or made of homopolymers
- hospital care — medical treatment provided in a hospital
- hydrocephalic — of or relating to hydrocephalus.
- hydropathical — Alternative form of hydropathic.
- hyperactivate — (biology) To cause or undergo hyperactivation.
- hyperactively — In a hyperactive manner.
- hyperactivity — the condition of being hyperactive.
- hypercalcemia — an abnormally large amount of calcium in the blood.