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13-letter words containing p, r, o, t, a

  • post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • post-prandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
  • post-socratic — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
  • post-tertiary — denoting or formed after the Tertiary period of geological time
  • postage meter — an office machine used in bulk mailing that imprints prepaid postage and a dated postmark.
  • postage rates — the rates charged for the delivery of mail, depending on type, weight etc
  • postauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
  • postconciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
  • postcranially — affecting the postcranium
  • posterization — a process for producing a posterlike, high-contrast color reproduction from continuous-tone art by using separation negatives of various densities.
  • postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
  • postlapsarian — occurring or being after the Fall.
  • postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • postoperative — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
  • posttraumatic — occurring after physical or psychological trauma.
  • posttreatment — an act or manner of treating.
  • postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
  • potato eaters — a painting (1885) by Vincent Van Gogh.
  • potato peeler — a special knife used to peel the skin from potatoes or other vegetables
  • potato-masher — a kitchen implement used to crush or mash potatoes
  • potomac fever — the determination or fervor to share in the power and prestige of the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., especially by being appointed or elected to a government position.
  • potomac river — a river flowing SE from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland and Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay. 287 miles (460 km) long.
  • potter around — If you potter around or potter about, you do pleasant but unimportant things, without hurrying.
  • potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
  • potty trained — Potty trained means the same as toilet trained.
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • power station — a generating station.
  • power takeoff — an accessory unit or apparatus attached to an engine-powered machine and powered by the engine. Abbreviation: PTO.
  • praecipitatio — Meteorology. precipitation from a cloud that reaches the surface of the earth (distinguished from virga).
  • praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
  • pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
  • pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
  • pre-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • pre-migration — the process or act of migrating.
  • pre-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
  • preadaptation — a structure or property that developed in an ancestral stock and was useful in a descendant in a changed environment.
  • preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
  • precipitation — the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.
  • precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
  • predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
  • predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • preexcitation — the act of exciting.
  • prefabricator — someone who or an organization that prefabricates
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