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13-letter words containing r, e, d, p, n

  • pearl-handled — having a handle made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • pebble garden — a small ornamental garden mainly composed of an arrangement of pebbles
  • pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
  • pedantocratic — of or relating to pedantocracy
  • pedestrianism — the exercise or practice of walking.
  • pedestrianize — to go on foot; walk.
  • pedro santana — Pedro [pey-droh;; Spanish pe-th raw] /ˈpeɪ droʊ;; Spanish ˈpɛ ðrɔ/ (Show IPA), 1801–64, Dominican revolutionary and political leader: president 1844–48, 1853–56, 1858–61.
  • perching bird — any member of the avian order Passeriformes.
  • perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
  • perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
  • perigean tide — an ocean tide that occurs in the spring, when the moon is at its perigee.
  • periodization — an act or instance of dividing a subject into historical eras for purposes of analysis and study.
  • periodontally — with respect to periodontal tissue
  • periodontitis — inflammation of the periodontium caused by bacteria that infect the roots of teeth and the surrounding gum crevices, producing bleeding, pus formation, and gradual loss of bone and the tissues that support the teeth. Compare pyorrhea (def 2).
  • periodontosis — rapidly advancing juvenile periodontitis.
  • perpend stone — a large stone that passes through a wall from one side to the other
  • perpendicular — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
  • perplexedness — the quality or state of being perplexed
  • petrol-driven — (of a car, engine, etc) powered by petrol
  • phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
  • pinar del rio — a city in W Cuba.
  • piper gurnard — a marine fish, Trigla lyra, of the family Triglidae
  • plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
  • plant breeder — a botanist concerned with the origin and evolution of plants
  • 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.
  • postmodernism — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, especially a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity.
  • postmodernist — relating to late 20th-century art movement
  • postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
  • potter around — If you potter around or potter about, you do pleasant but unimportant things, without hurrying.
  • potty trained — Potty trained means the same as toilet trained.
  • powder monkey — (formerly) a boy employed on warships to carry gunpowder from the magazine to the guns.
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • pre-contrived — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
  • pre-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • 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-mentioned — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
  • pre-organized — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
  • pre-portioned — to divide into portions before packaging, selling, etc.: to preportion meals for schools and hospitals.
  • preadaptation — a structure or property that developed in an ancestral stock and was useful in a descendant in a changed environment.
  • preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
  • predefinition — the process or action of defining in advance; an advance definition
  • predesignated — to designate beforehand.
  • predestinated — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
  • predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
  • predetermined — to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
  • predeterminer — a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, often quantitative in meaning, that may be placed before an article or other determiner, as all in all the paintings or half in half her salary.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
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