13-letter words containing p, r, o, e, l
- pseudo-colour — an artificial colour
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
- public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
- pull together — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
- pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pure new wool — the best wool or wool blended fibres
- purple mombin — a tree, Spondias purpurea, of tropical America, having clusters of purple or greenish flowers and yellow or dark red fruit that is edible either raw or cooked.
- purpose-built — A purpose-built building has been specially designed and built for a particular use.
- pyrheliometer — an instrument for measuring the total intensity of the sun's energy radiation.
- pyrocellulose — cordite.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
- radioteletype — Also called radioteletypewriter [rey-dee-oh-tel-i-tahyp-rahy-ter, -tel-i-tahyp-rahy-] /ˌreɪ di oʊˌtɛl ɪˈtaɪpˌraɪ tər, -ˈtɛl ɪ taɪpˌraɪ-/ (Show IPA). a teletypewriter equipped for transmitting or receiving messages by radio instead of wire.
- random sample — a statistical sample that is devised to avoid interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population
- re-employment — an act or instance of employing someone or something.
- real property — an estate or property consisting of lands and of all appurtenances to lands, as buildings, crops, or mineral rights (distinguished from personal property).
- realpolitiker — someone who practises or believes in realpolitik
- reapplication — an act or the process of reapplying a substance
- reciprocality — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
- record player — phonograph.
- red corpuscle — a red blood cell.
- redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
- redevelopment — the act or process of redeveloping.
- reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- reflectograph — a type of mechanical instrument used for communication with spirits or the dead
- regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
- rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
- relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
- repeater loan — a loan lent to someone who has already borrowed
- repetitiously — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
- reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
- republication — publication anew.
- reupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- ringed plover — any of several cosmopolitan plovers of the genus Charadrius, especially C. hiaticula, brownish above and white below with a black band around the breast.
- river dolphin — any freshwater cetacean of the family Platanistidae, inhabiting rivers of North and South America and S Asia. They are smaller than marine dolphins and have a longer narrower snout
- roll-top desk — a flexible, sliding cover for the working area of a desk, opening by rising upward and back in quadrantal grooves and rolling up beneath the top.
- rolling paper — cigarette paper available in small packages to smokers for rolling their own cigarettes.
- rough sleeper — a homeless person who sleeps rough
- route planner — a book of road maps
- rumelgumption — commonsense
- rumlegumption — commonsense
- saloon keeper — a person who owns or operates a saloon.
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- school report — written assessment of school pupil