13-letter words containing p, u, r, e
- business trip — a journey made somewhere and back again for business purposes in one's working capacity
- butcher paper — heavy, moisture-resistant paper, as used for wrapping meat.
- butterfly pea — any of several leguminous plants of the genus Clitoria, as C. mariana, of North America, having pale-blue flowers.
- butyrophenone — a drug used to treat psychiatric disorders
- by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
- calliper rule — a measuring instrument having two parallel jaws, one fixed at right angles to the end of a calibrated scale and the other sliding along it
- camphoraceous — similar to camphor
- cape coloured — (formerly, in South Africa) a racial classification under apartheid for people of mixed ethnic origin
- capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
- carpal tunnel — forearm to hand
- carpetmuncher — Alternative form of carpet muncher.
- century plant — an agave, Agave americana, native to tropical America but naturalized elsewhere, having very large spiny greyish leaves and greenish flowers on a tall fleshy stalk. It blooms only once in its life, after 10 to 30 years (formerly thought to flower after a century)
- ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
- chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
- chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
- cheerer-upper — a person or thing that cheers a person up: A good joke is the best cheerer-upper.
- chemautotroph — an organism, such as a bacterium, that obtains its energy from inorganic reactions using simple compounds, such as ammonia or hydrogen sulphide
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- church parade — a parade by servicemen or members of a uniformed organization for the purposes of attending religious services
- churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
- circumspectly — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clear-up rate — the percentage of a category of crimes that are solved
- clipper-built — (of a hull) having fast lines, with a high ratio of length to beam and a fine entrance.
- clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- come up roses — If you say that everything is coming up roses for someone, you mean that everything is going well for them.
- come up short — disappoint
- computer chip — a small integrated circuit of a kind used in computers
- computer disk — a computer data storage device such as a hard drive or floppy disk
- computer file — file
- computer game — A computer game is a game that you play on a computer or on a small portable piece of electronic equipment.
- computer geek — (jargon) (Or "turbo nerd", "turbo geek") One who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfils all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodourous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. The term cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers; compare black-on-black usage of "nigger". A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage. See also Alpha Geek, propeller head, clustergeeking, geek out, wannabee, terminal junkie, spod, weenie.
- computer nerd — someone who is inordinately preoccupied with using computers, at the expense of ordinary social skills
- computerising — Present participle of computerise.
- computerizing — Present participle of computerize.
- computerphobe — a person with a strong fear or dislike of computers
- cor pulmonale — pulmonary heart disease: a serious heart condition in which there is enlargement and failure of the right ventricle resulting from lung disease
- corpora lutea — corpus luteum
- corpus luteum — a yellow glandular mass of tissue that forms in a Graafian follicle following release of an ovum. It secretes progesterone, a hormone necessary to maintain pregnancy
- 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.
- councilperson — a member of a city or local legislative council.
- counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
- counter-power — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- counterjumper — a clerk in a retail store.
- counterperson — a person who waits on customers from behind a counter, as in a cafeteria.
- counterphobic — seeking out a situation that one fears in an attempt to overcome the fear.
- counterpicket — a picket which opposes an existing picket at the same location
- counterplayer — a person who makes a counterplay
- counterpoints — Plural form of counterpoint.