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

  • county prison — the prison of a particular county
  • court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
  • cranioscopist — a practitioner of cranioscopy
  • crop rotation — the system of growing a sequence of different crops on the same ground so as to maintain or increase its fertility
  • crop spraying — the spraying of crops with insecticide, fungicide, etc
  • cross-posting — the sending of an email to many forums, mailing lists, etc
  • cryptoxanthin — a carotenoid pigment, C40H56O, in butter, eggs, and various plants, that can be converted into vitamin A in the body
  • cuprotitanium — (metallurgy) An alloy of copper and titanium obtained by reducing a mixture of copper and rutile.
  • cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
  • cycloparaffin — any of a series of saturated alicyclic hydrocarbons of the general formula CnH2n, having a closed chain of three or more carbon atoms, as cyclohexane
  • decompressing — Present participle of decompress.
  • decompression — Decompression is the reduction of the force on something that is caused by the weight of the air.
  • decrepitation — to roast or calcine (salt, minerals, etc.) so as to cause crackling or until crackling ceases.
  • deep mourning — completely black mourning clothes made of a drab material: After her brother died, she was in deep mourning for a year.
  • dendrophilous — living in or on trees; arboreal.
  • depersonalise — Alternative spelling of depersonalize.
  • depersonalize — To depersonalize a system or a situation means to treat it as if it did not really involve people, or to treat it as if the people involved were not really important.
  • depreciations — Plural form of depreciation.
  • depressogenic — Causing or tending to cause depression.
  • deprotonation — (chemistry) The removal of a proton (hydrogen ion) from a molecule to form a conjugate base.
  • deptford pink — a plant, Dianthus armeria, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having slender, erect stems and leaves and clusters of small, bright pink flowers.
  • diaphanometer — an instrument used to measure transparency, esp of the atmosphere
  • dinitrophenol — any of the six isomers consisting of phenol where two hydrogen atoms are substituted by nitro groups, C 6 H 4 N 2 O 5 , used in dyes and wood preservatives, and in biochemistry to uncouple oxidative phosphorylation.
  • diprotodontid — any of the extinct marsupials belonging to the genus Diprotodon, characterized by having two incisor teeth in the bottom jaw
  • disempowering — Present participle of disempower.
  • disproportion — lack of proportion; lack of proper relationship in size, number, etc.: architectural disproportions.
  • disreputation — disrepute.
  • dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.
  • drape forming — thermoforming of plastic sheeting over an open mold by a combination of gravity and a vacuum.
  • drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
  • drop shipment — a shipment of goods made directly from the manufacturer to the retailer or consumer but billed through the wholesaler or distributor.
  • drownproofing — a survival technique, for swimmers or nonswimmers, in which the body is allowed to float vertically in the water, with the head submerged, the lungs filled with air, and the arms and legs relaxed, the head being raised to breathe every ten seconds or so.
  • dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
  • durban poison — a particularly potent variety of cannabis grown in Natal
  • e-proposition — a universal negative proposition
  • earning power — business: ability to profit
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • electrophonic — Relating to electronic equipment to produce sound (this adjectival sense is not comparable).
  • electrotyping — The act or process of making electrotypes.
  • enantiomorphs — Plural form of enantiomorph.
  • enantiomorphy — the state of being enantiomorphic
  • enantiotropic — relating to enantiotropy
  • endoparasites — Plural form of endoparasite.
  • 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.
  • enteropathies — Plural form of enteropathy.
  • epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
  • epping forest — a forest in E England, northeast of London: formerly a royal hunting ground
  • equipartition — the equal division of the energy of a system in thermal equilibrium between different degrees of freedom. This principle was assumed to be exact in classical physics, but quantum theory shows that it is true only in certain special cases
  • equiponderant — of the same weight; evenly balanced
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