0%

13-letter words containing p, r, i, n, t

  • extraposition — placement of something outside something else
  • finger puppet — a miniature puppet fitting over and manipulated by one finger.
  • fingerpainted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerpaint.
  • fingerprinted — Simple past tense and past participle of fingerprint.
  • flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
  • flunitrazepam — a powerful benzodiazepine sedative, C 16 H 12 FN 3 O 3 , that causes semiconsciousness and memory blackouts: has been implicated in date rapes and is illegal in the U.S.
  • frame pointer — A pointer to the current activation record in an implementation of a block structured language.
  • freight plane — an aeroplane used to transport goods
  • 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.
  • frontier post — an official point where people or vehicles cross over a border between countries
  • frontispieces — Plural form of frontispiece.
  • furring strip — a strip of wood or metal fixed to a wall, floor, or ceiling to provide a surface for the fixing of plasterboard, floorboards, etc
  • gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
  • genetotrophic — pertaining to nutrition and genetics
  • gerontophilia — sexual attraction towards old people
  • gerontophobia — a fear of old people.
  • glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
  • gonadotrophic — Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads.
  • gonadotrophin — a gonadotropic substance.
  • gonadotropins — Plural form of gonadotropin.
  • 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.
  • gradient post — a small white post beside a railway line at a point where the gradient changes having arms set at angles representing the gradients
  • granite paper — paper containing fibers of various colors that give it a granitelike appearance.
  • grantsmanship — skill in securing grants, as for research, from federal agencies, foundations, or the like.
  • group annuity — a plan in which the members of a group, usually employees of the same company, receive annuities upon retirement.
  • 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
  • growing point — the undifferentiated end of a root, shoot, or vegetative axis consisting of a single cell or group of cells that divide to form primary meristematic tissue.
  • guttersnipish — Resembling or characteristic of a guttersnipe.
  • hairsplitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
  • haruspication — the use of animal entrails for divination
  • heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
  • heating power — power that can be used to heat something
  • heir apparent — an heir whose right is indefeasible, provided he or she survives the ancestor.
  • hemiterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C5 skeleton.
  • herb patience — a European plant, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, naturalized in North America, having long, wavy-margined, basal leaves used for salads.
  • herod antipas — died after a.d. 39, ruler of Galilee, a.d. 4–39: ordered the execution of John the Baptist and participated in the trial of Jesus.
  • heteropolitan — a heterosexual man, typically living in a city, whose attitudes and interests are regarded as masculine but not excessively so
  • horripilation — a bristling of the hair on the skin from cold, fear, etc.; goose bumps.
  • house painter — a person whose occupation is painting houses.
  • housepainters — Plural form of housepainter.
  • hunter's pink — a brilliant red often used for the jackets of hunters.
  • hypercyanotic — blueness or lividness of the skin, as from imperfectly oxygenated blood.
  • hyperfunction — abnormally increased function, especially of glands or other organs.
  • hyperimmunity — the state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.
  • hyperinflated — to subject to hyperinflation: hyperinflated prices.
  • hypermagnetic — (physics) Extremely magnetic.
  • hypermutation — (uncountable) Frequent mutation.
  • hypernatremia — an abnormally high concentration of sodium in the blood.
  • hyperrational — characterized by excessive rationality
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?