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13-letter words containing r, e, p, a

  • paucis verbis — in or by few words; with brevity.
  • pauperization — the act or process of making a pauper of or impoverishing
  • pay structure — a collection of pay grades or bands, which set out the different levels of pay for workers in a certain profession, etc
  • pay the piper — a person who plays on a pipe.
  • pay-per-click — a system used to set prices for online advertisements on a search engine or other website, by which the advertiser pays a small fee to the website publisher each time a user clicks on the advertisement.
  • payday lender — a person or group that offers short-term loans, in advance of payday, at high rates of interest
  • payment terms — the terms or conditions concerning the payment of something
  • peace officer — a civil officer appointed to preserve the public peace, as a sheriff or constable.
  • peace process — A peace process consists of all the meetings, agreements, and negotiations in which people such as politicians are involved when they are trying to arrange peace between countries or groups that are fighting with each other.
  • peacock chair — a wicker armchair with a high, circular back.
  • peak district — a region of N central England, mainly in N Derbyshire at the S end of the Pennines: consists of moors in the north and a central limestone plateau; many caves. Highest point: 727 m (2088 ft)
  • peanut butter — a paste made from ground roasted peanuts, used as a spread or in cookery.
  • pearl essence — a lustrous, silvery-white substance obtained from the scales of certain fishes or derived synthetically, as from mercuric chloride: used chiefly in the manufacture of simulated pearls and as a pigment in lacquer (pearl lacquer)
  • pearl molding — a molding having the form of a row of pearls.
  • pearl tapioca — a food substance prepared from cassava in granular, flake, pellet (pearl tapioca) or flour form, used in puddings, as a thickener, etc.
  • pearl-handled — having a handle made of pearl or mother-of-pearl
  • pearly whites — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • pebble garden — a small ornamental garden mainly composed of an arrangement of pebbles
  • pebble heater — a heat exchanger utilizing refractory pellets to store and give off heat.
  • pedal pushers — women's short trousers
  • pedantocratic — of or relating to pedantocracy
  • pedestrianism — the exercise or practice of walking.
  • pedestrianize — to go on foot; walk.
  • pedicellariae — one of the minute pincerlike structures common to starfish and sea urchins, used for cleaning and to capture tiny prey.
  • 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.
  • peirastically — in a peirastic manner
  • penalty rates — rates of pay, such as double time, paid to employees working outside normal working hours
  • pencil crayon — coloured pencil
  • penetratively — in a penetrative manner
  • peninsula war — a war (1808–14) in Spain and Portugal, with British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops opposing the French.
  • peninsularity — the state or fact of being a peninsula
  • penny-a-liner — a hack writer.
  • pennyfarthing — a high bicycle of an early type, with one large wheel in front and one small wheel behind.
  • penthemimeral — (of a caesura) occurring after the first penthemimer of a poetic line, i.e. in the middle of the third foot
  • pentobarbital — a barbiturate, C 1 1 H 1 7 N 2 O 3 , used as a hypnotic and as a sedative.
  • pepper family — the plant family Piperaceae, characterized by tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having simple leaves, dense spikes of very small flowers, and fleshy, berrylike fruit, and including peperomia and peppers of the genus Piper.
  • pepper shaker — container that dispenses pepper
  • perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
  • perboric acid — a hypothetical acid, HBO 3 , known only in the form of its salts.
  • perchlorinate — to combine with the maximum proportion of chlorine.
  • perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
  • peregrination — travel from one place to another, especially on foot.
  • peregrinatory — tending to peregrinate; relating to or characteristic of a traveller
  • perennibranch — any amphibian that retains its gills throughout its life
  • perfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which sexual spores are formed, as the asci in the sexual stage of the ascomycete.
  • perfectionate — to perfect; to make perfect
  • periarteritis — inflammation of the outer coat and tissues surrounding an artery.
  • perigastritis — the inflammation of the part of the peritoneum surrounding the stomach
  • perigean tide — an ocean tide that occurs in the spring, when the moon is at its perigee.
  • perihepatitis — the inflammation of the part of the peritoneum surrounding the liver
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