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

  • bargain price — a low price
  • barley stripe — a disease of barley, characterized by blighted heads and chlorotic, brown, or frayed stripes on the leaves, caused by a fungus, Helminthosporium gramineum.
  • barred spiral — a spiral galaxy in which the arms originate at the ends of a bar-shaped nucleus
  • barristership — the office of a barrister
  • basic process — Military. basic training. a soldier or airman receiving basic training.
  • basidiospores — Plural form of basidiospore.
  • beam splitter — a system that divides a beam of light, electrons, etc, into two or more paths
  • bearing plate — a heavy metal plate for receiving and distributing concentrated weight, as from a column or one end of a truss.
  • beaux esprits — bel esprit
  • beaux-esprits — plural of bel-esprit.
  • best practice — Best practice is the way of running a business or providing a service that is recognized as correct or most effective.
  • beta particle — a high-speed electron or positron emitted by a nucleus during radioactive decay or nuclear fission
  • bias-ply tire — a vehicle tire in which the main plies or cords run across the bead.
  • bible-thumper — an enthusiastic or aggressive exponent of the Bible
  • bibliographer — an expert in bibliography
  • bibliotherapy — the use of reading as therapy
  • binary prefix — (unit)   (Or "IEC prefix") A prefix used with a unit of data to mean multiplication by a power of 1024. Binary prefixes are most often used with "byte" (e.g. "kilobyte") but also with bit (e.g. "megabit"). For example, the term kilobyte has historically been used to mean 1024 bytes, and megabyte to mean 1,048,576 bytes. The multipliers 1024 and 1,048,576 are powers of 1024, which is itself a power of two (1024 = 2^10). It is this factor of two that gives the name "binary prefix". This is in contrast to a decimal prefix denoting a power of 1000, which is itself a power of ten (1000 = 10^3). Decimal prefixes are used in science and engineering and are specified in widely adopted SI standards. Note that the actual prefix - kilo or mega - is the same, it is the interpretation that differs. The difference between the two interpretations increases with each multiplication, so while 1000 and 1024 differ by only 2.4%, 1000^6 and 1024^6 differ by 15%. The 1024-based interpretation of prefixes is often still used informally and especially when discussing the storage capacity of random-access memory. This has lead to storage device manufacturers being accused of false marketing for using the decimal interpretation where customers might assume the larger, historical, binary interpretation. In an attempt to clarify the distinction, in 1998 the IEC specified that kilobyte, megabyte, etc. should only be used for powers of 1000 (following SI). They specified new prefixes for powers of 1024 containing "bi" for "binary": kibibyte, mebibyte, etc.; an idea originally propsed by IUPAC. IEC also specified new abbreviations Ki, Mi, etc. for the new prefixes. Many other standards bodies such as NIST, IEEE and BIPM support this proposal but as of 2013 its use is rare in non-technical circles. Specific units of IEC 60027-2 A.2 and ISO/IEC 80000
  • binary weapon — a chemical weapon consisting of a projectile containing two substances separately that mix to produce a lethal agent when the projectile is fired
  • biogeographer — a person who is knowledgeable about biogeography
  • bird of peace — a dove.
  • birth parents — a child's biological parents, regardless of whether they subsequently bring up the child
  • bite your lip — If you bite your lip, you try very hard not to show the anger or distress that you are feeling.
  • bits per inch — (unit)   (BPI) A measure of the recording density of a magnetic tape or disk.
  • black crappie — a dark, spotted crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus)
  • blood profile — a diagnostic test that determines the exact numbers of each type of blood cell in a fixed quantity of blood. Abbreviation: CBC.
  • blood-profile — a diagnostic test that determines the exact numbers of each type of blood cell in a fixed quantity of blood. Abbreviation: CBC.
  • bodice ripper — You can refer to a film or novel which is set in the past and which includes a lot of sex scenes as a bodice ripper, especially if you do not think it is very good and is just intended to entertain people.
  • bodice-ripper — a modern Gothic novel or historical romance, usually in paperback format, featuring at least one passionate love scene, characteristically one in which the heroine vainly resists submitting to the villain or hero.
  • body piercing — the practice of making holes in the navel , nipples, etc so that jewellery can be worn in them
  • border police — the force in charge of policing a border
  • boring sponge — any of a family (Clionidae) of sponges that settle on and dissolve the shells of clams
  • braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
  • bread pudding — a rich cake made with bread soaked in milk, eggs, dried fruit and spices and baked, usually eaten cold
  • breaker strip — breaker1 (def 4).
  • breaker-strip — a person or thing that breaks.
  • breeding pair — a male and female animal that produce offspring together
  • bridge player — a person who plays the game of bridge
  • bromide paper — a type of photographic paper coated with an emulsion of silver bromide usually containing a small quantity of silver iodide
  • bromocriptine — a dopamine agonist drug which blocks the release of prolactin from the pituitary gland, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
  • brownie point — If someone does something to score brownie points, they do it because they think they will be praised for it.
  • budget period — the time which a budget covers
  • buprenorphine — an opiate used medicinally as a powerful analgesic
  • business park — an area specially designated and landscaped to accommodate business offices, warehouses, light industry, etc
  • business trip — a journey made somewhere and back again for business purposes in one's working capacity
  • by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
  • byte compiler — byte-code compiler
  • caesaropapism — the theory that the state should have authority over the church in ecclesiastical matters; Erastianism
  • calliper rule — a measuring instrument having two parallel jaws, one fixed at right angles to the end of a calibrated scale and the other sliding along it
  • camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
  • cancerophobia — a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer
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