13-letter words containing r, e, p, a
- orchestra-pit — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
- organotherapy — the branch of therapeutics that deals with the use of remedies prepared from the organs of animals, as from the thyroid gland, the pancreas, or the suprarenal bodies.
- oropharyngeal — the part of the pharynx between the soft palate and the upper edge of the epiglottis.
- orthocephalic — having a medium or intermediate relation between the height of the skull and the breadth or length.
- orthoepically — In terms of correct pronunciation.
- orthographies — Plural form of orthography.
- orthographize — to spell correctly or according to the rules of orthography.
- orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
- ostreophagous — oyster-eating
- over-pampered — to treat or gratify with extreme or excessive indulgence, kindness, or care: to pamper a child; to pamper one's stomach.
- over-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- over-populate — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- overamplified — amplified too much, causing distortion or discomfort, etc
- overappraisal — An appraisal that overvalues something.
- overemphasise — (British) alternative spelling of overemphasize.
- overemphasize — to emphasize excessively.
- overexpansion — the act or process of expanding.
- overland park — a town in E Kansas, near Kansas City.
- overpedalling — the overuse of the piano's pedals
- overpopulated — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- overpotential — overvoltage.
- overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- pacific grove — a city in W California, at S end of Monterey Bay.
- package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
- packet driver — (networking) IBM PC local area network software that divides data into packets which it routes to the network. It also handles incoming data, reassembling the packets so that application programs can read the data as a continuous stream. Packet drivers provide a simple, common programming interface that allows multiple applications to share a network interface at the data link layer. Packet drivers demultiplex incoming packets among the applications by using the network media's standard packet type or service access point field(s). The packet driver provides calls to initiate access to a specific packet type, to end access to it, to send a packet, to get statistics on the network interface and to get information about the interface. Protocol implementations that use the packet driver can coexist and can make use of one another's services, whereas multiple applications which do not use the driver do not coexist on one machine properly. Through use of the packet driver, a user could run TCP/IP, XNS and a proprietary protocol implementation such as DECnet, Banyan's, LifeNet's, Novell's or 3Com's without the difficulties associated with pre-empting the network interface. Applications which use the packet driver can also run on new network hardware of the same class without being modified; only a new packet driver need be supplied. There are several levels of packet driver. The first is the basic packet driver, which provides minimal functionality but should be simple to implement and which uses very few host resources. The basic driver provides operations to broadcast and receive packets. The second driver is the extended packet driver, which is a superset of the basic driver. The extended driver supports less commonly used functions of the network interface such as multicast, and also gathers statistics on use of the interface and makes these available to the application. The third level, the high-performance functions, support performance improvements and tuning.
- packing crate — A packing crate is a large wooden box in which things are put so that they can be stored or taken somewhere.
- paediatrician — A paediatrician is a doctor who specializes in treating sick children.
- paedomorphism — the continuation of juvenile characteristics in the adult stage
- pager message — a message received by a pager
- painted horse — paint (def 6).
- painterliness — the quality of being painterly
- pairs skaters — two skaters, a man and a woman, or a boy and a girl, who skate together, esp in competitions
- palaeocrystic — consisting of former glacial formation
- palaeocurrent — an ancient current, esp of water, evidence of which has been preserved in sedimentary rocks as fossilized ripple marks, etc
- paleosiberian — a group of languages comprising those languages of Siberia that are not affiliated with Indo-European, Altaic, Uralic, or Eskimo-Aleut and including the Chukotian family and the unrelated language isolates Ket, Nivkh, and Yukaghir; Paleo-Asiatic.
- paleotropical — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising the Ethiopian and Oriental regions.
- pallet loader — A device employing a vertical lift platform for the mechanical loading or unloading of pallets of freight
- pan-germanism — the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.
- pancreatotomy — incision of the pancreas.
- pandora shell — any marine bivalve of the genus Pandora, having a scimitar-shaped shell with a pronounced ridge along the hinge.
- panradiometer — an instrument used for measuring radiant heat independently of wavelength
- pantagruelian — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- pantie girdle — a girdle with a crotch.
- pao de acucar — Portuguese name of Sugarloaf Mountain.
- papaprelatist — a supporter of papal prelates
- papaveraceous — belonging to the Papaveraceae, the poppy family of plants.
- paper advance — the feeding of paper through a printer
- paper lantern — a lantern made from paper (shading a candle etc); often hung at Chinese and Japanese festivals
- paper profits — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.