13-letter words containing p, t, e, r, y
- concert party — a musical entertainment popular in the early 20th century, esp one at a British seaside resort
- coniferophyte — (biology) conifer.
- cooperatively — working or acting together willingly for a common purpose or benefit.
- cooperativity — an interaction between structural units within a molecule or between molecules in an assemblage that enables the system to respond more sharply to an external change than would isolated units
- copyrightable — the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc.: works granted such right by law on or after January 1, 1978, are protected for the lifetime of the author or creator and for a period of 70 years after his or her death.
- costume party — A costume party or costume ball is a party at which the guests try to look like famous people or people from history, from stories, or from particular professions.
- cotemporality — The state or characteristic of existing or occurring during the same period of time.
- counterplayer — a person who makes a counterplay
- counterspying — the activities of a counterspy
- countrypeople — countryfolk.
- countryperson — Someone who is from a countryside background.
- cryotherapies — Plural form of cryotherapy.
- cryptesthesia — allegedly paranormal perception, as clairvoyance or clairaudience.
- cryptoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
- cryptographer — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
- crystal pleat — one of a series of fine, permanently pressed pleats of varying widths, usually in a sheer fabric
- cytopharynges — Plural form of cytopharynx.
- daguerreotype — one of the earliest photographic processes, in which the image was produced on iodine-sensitized silver and developed in mercury vapour
- daguerreotypy — The art or technique of producing daguerreotypes.
- daguerrotypes — Plural form of daguerrotype, a misspelling of daguerreotype.
- dance therapy — the use of dance or movement for therapeutic purposes; a form of therapy in which people are encouraged to express their feelings through dance or movement.
- deprecatingly — to express earnest disapproval of.
- deprecatorily — In a deprecatory manner.
- dermatography — a treatise or writing concerning the skin
- dermatophytes — Plural form of dermatophyte.
- dermatoplasty — any surgical operation on the skin, esp skin grafting
- descriptively — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- descriptivity — The quality or state of being descriptive.
- drama therapy — a type of psychotherapy encouraging patients to use dramatic techniques to deal with emotional and psychological problems.
- dryopithecine — (sometimes initial capital letter) an extinct ape of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Old World Miocene fossils.
- early adopter — a person who uses a new product or technology before it becomes widely known or used.
- electrotyping — The act or process of making electrotypes.
- electrotypist — an electrotyper
- empty quarter — a desert in S Arabia, N of Hadhramaut and extending from Yemen to Oman. About 250,000 sq. mi. (647,500 sq. km).
- empyreumatise — to render empyreumatic
- empyreumatize — to infect or spoil with empyreuma
- enantiomorphy — the state of being enantiomorphic
- erythrophobia — Abnormal and persistent fear of blushing.
- exasperatedly — In an exasperated manner.
- expeditionary — Of or forming an expedition, especially a military expedition.
- expert system — (artificial intelligence) A computer program that contains a knowledge base and a set of algorithms or rules that infer new facts from knowledge and from incoming data. An expert system is an artificial intelligence application that uses a knowledge base of human expertise to aid in solving problems. The degree of problem solving is based on the quality of the data and rules obtained from the human expert. Expert systems are designed to perform at a human expert level. In practice, they will perform both well below and well above that of an individual expert. The expert system derives its answers by running the knowledge base through an inference engine, a software program that interacts with the user and processes the results from the rules and data in the knowledge base. Expert systems are used in applications such as medical diagnosis, equipment repair, investment analysis, financial, estate and insurance planning, route scheduling for delivery vehicles, contract bidding, counseling for self-service customers, production control and training.
- explanatorily — With regard to explanatory power.
- exploratively — in an explorative manner
- exportability — The property of being exportable.
- expostulatory — Of, characterized by, or exhibiting expostulation.
- extemporarily — In an extemporary manner.
- factory price — the price quoted for manufactured goods for pickup at the gate of a factory, before certain handling, shipping, and similar costs.
- fatigue party — a group of soldiers undertaking fatigues
- fever therapy — therapy by means of an artificially induced fever.
- free enthalpy — a thermodynamic property of a system equal to the difference between its enthalpy and the product of its temperature and its entropy. It is usually measured in joules