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13-letter words containing r, e, n, a, l

  • platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
  • plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
  • pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • 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.
  • polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
  • poor relation — If you describe one thing as a poor relation of another, you mean that it is similar to or part of the other thing, but is considered to be inferior to it.
  • poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • port language — ["Communicating Parallel Processes", J. Kerridge et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(1):63-86 (Jan 1986)].
  • portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
  • postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • pre-placement — the act of an employment office or employer in filling a position.
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
  • predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
  • predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
  • preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • preliminaries — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
  • preliminarily — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
  • prelitigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
  • premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
  • premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
  • premillennial — of or relating to the period preceding the millennium.
  • prepositional — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
  • present value — current monetary worth
  • presentiality — the state of being present
  • preternatural — out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
  • prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
  • prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
  • prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
  • principalness — the quality or position of being principal
  • procreational — having the potential to procreate
  • progenitorial — characteristic of a progenitor
  • progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
  • proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
  • promised land — Heaven.
  • pronominalize — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
  • pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
  • protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
  • provincialise — to make provincial in character.
  • provincialize — to make provincial in character.
  • prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
  • prudentialist — a person who acts prudentially
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