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13-letter words containing p, u, r, e

  • picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
  • picture plane — the plane of a painting, drawing, or the like, that is in the extreme foreground of a picture, is coextensive with but not the same as the material surface of the work, is the point of visual contact between the viewer and the picture, and is conceived as a major structural element in the production of abstract or illusionistic forms.
  • picturesquely — visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village.
  • piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • plane journey — a journey made by flying in an aeroplane
  • planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • pleasure boat — recreational vessel
  • pleasure dome — a large building, facility, or place used for recreation.
  • pleasure trip — holiday, vacation
  • plectopterous — of or relating to the order Plectoptera, containing mayflies
  • plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
  • pleurisy root — a North American milkweed, Asclepias tuberosa, whose root was used as a remedy for pleurisy.
  • pleurocarpous — (of certain mosses) bearing the fructifications along the main stem or lateral branches.
  • plique-a-jour — an enameling technique in which the colored enamels are fused into the spaces of a wire framework on a temporary backing; the backing is then removed, producing a translucent effect
  • plunging fire — artillery or other fire that strikes the ground at a steep angle, as from high ground overlooking the target or from a weapon fired at a high angle of elevation.
  • plunket nurse — a child-care nurse appointed by the Plunket Society
  • plural eulisp — EuLisp with parallel extensions. "Collections and Garbage Collection", S.C. Merall et al, in Memory Management - IWMM92, Springer 1992, pp.473-489.
  • pluripresence — presence in more than one place at the same time
  • plus juncture — open juncture.
  • pneumatograph — pneumograph.
  • pneumatometer — an instrument for measuring either the quantity of air inhaled or exhaled during a single inspiration or expiration or the force of inspiration or expiration.
  • pneumatophore — Botany. a specialized structure developed from the root in certain plants growing in swamps and marshes, serving as a respiratory organ.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
  • poet laureate — (in Great Britain) a poet appointed for life as an officer of the royal household, formerly expected to write poems in celebration of court and national events.
  • polar nucleus — Botany. either of two female haploid nuclei, in the embryo sac of flowers, that fuse to produce a diploid nucleus, which combines with a male nucleus to form the endosperm.
  • polliniferous — Botany. producing or bearing pollen.
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • port language — ["Communicating Parallel Processes", J. Kerridge et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(1):63-86 (Jan 1986)].
  • post-consumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
  • post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
  • post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
  • postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • potter around — If you potter around or potter about, you do pleasant but unimportant things, without hurrying.
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • power failure — electricity outage
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • prague spring — a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.
  • pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
  • pre-calculate — to determine or ascertain by mathematical methods; compute: to calculate the velocity of light.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • pre-discussed — to consider or examine by argument, comment, etc.; talk over or write about, especially to explore solutions; debate: to discuss the proposed law on taxes.
  • 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-encounter — to come upon or meet with, especially unexpectedly: to encounter a new situation.
  • pre-requisite — required beforehand: a prerequisite fund of knowledge.
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