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

  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • power failure — electricity outage
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • prejudicially — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
  • premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
  • prerevolution — of the period before a revolution
  • prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
  • presumptively — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
  • pretentiously — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
  • primum mobile — (in Ptolemaic astronomy) the outermost of the 10 concentric spheres of the universe, making a complete revolution every 24 hours and causing all the others to do likewise.
  • proliferously — by proliferation
  • prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
  • prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
  • prudentialist — a person who acts prudentially
  • prudentiality — prudential nature or practice
  • prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
  • pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
  • pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
  • purkinje cell — a large, densely branching neuron in the cerebellar cortex of the brain.
  • purple martin — a large American swallow, Progne subis, the male of which is blue-black.
  • purple mombin — a tree, Spondias purpurea, of tropical America, having clusters of purple or greenish flowers and yellow or dark red fruit that is edible either raw or cooked.
  • purpose-built — A purpose-built building has been specially designed and built for a particular use.
  • pursuit plane — (formerly) an armed airplane designed for speed and maneuverability in fighting enemy aircraft.
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • quadruplicate — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
  • quality press — the more serious newspapers which give detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
  • quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
  • reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
  • reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
  • regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
  • repetitiously — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
  • reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
  • reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • republicanize — to make republican.
  • republication — publication anew.
  • rumble strips — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
  • rumelgumption — commonsense
  • rumlegumption — commonsense
  • serpiginously — in a serpiginous manner; in the manner characteristic of serpigo
  • shag pile rug — a piece of thick material with a nap of long rough strands that you put on a floor. It is like a carpet but covers a smaller area
  • spinuliferous — relating to a spine or spines
  • spiral nebula — (formerly) a spiral galaxy.
  • splendiferous — splendid; magnificent; fine.
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