13-letter words containing p, u, r, s
- 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.
- pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
- pococurantist — a person who demonstrates a tendency toward indifference
- 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.
- polyoma virus — a small DNA-containing virus, of the papovavirus group, that can produce a variety of tumors in mice, hamsters, rabbits, and rats.
- pons asinorum — a geometric proposition that if a triangle has two of its sides equal, the angles opposite these sides are also equal: so named from the difficulty experienced by beginners in mastering it. Euclid, 1:5.
- popular music — music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies
- 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 du salut — Port-Salut.
- 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.
- postauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
- postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- posttraumatic — occurring after physical or psychological trauma.
- pouring-basin — (in a vacuum induction furnace) a trough through which molten metal flows under vacuum to a mold chamber.
- 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-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-requisite — required beforehand: a prerequisite fund of knowledge.
- pre-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
- precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
- prediscussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
- prepubescence — of or relating to the years immediately preceding puberty, prepubertal.
- present value — current monetary worth
- press cutting — an article or picture from a newspaper about someone or something
- pressure cone — a small, radially striated rock structure produced by intense shock, such as generated by meteorite impact.
- pressure drag — the part of the total drag of a body moving through a gas or liquid caused by the components of the pressures at right angles to the surface of the body
- pressure head — the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk by the neck, containing the brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
- pressure hull — the inner, pressure-resistant hull of a submarine.
- pressure suit — pressurized suit.
- pressure-cook — to cook in a pressure cooker.
- pressure-feed — a system in which the supply of material is maintained by applied pressure
- prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- presubmission — an act or instance of submitting.
- 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.
- preuniversity — of the period before attending university
- price support — the maintenance of the price of a commodity, product, etc., especially by means of a public subsidy or government purchase of surpluses.
- pride's purge — the forceful exclusion from the House of Commons, carried out by Col. Thomas Pride in December 1648, of about 100 members who favored compromise with the Royalist party.
- private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes