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13-letter words containing r, e, p, l, n, t

  • plant breeder — a botanist concerned with the origin and evolution of plants
  • plant hormone — an organic chemical, as auxin, produced by plant cells and functioning at various sites to regulate growth, turning, metabolic processes, etc.
  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
  • plunket nurse — a child-care nurse appointed by the Plunket Society
  • plus juncture — open juncture.
  • pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • 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
  • port colborne — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • 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.
  • practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
  • pre-eminently — Pre-eminently means to a very great extent.
  • 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.
  • preemployment — being required or accomplished before an employee begins a new job: a preemployment medical exam.
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
  • prelitigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
  • premonitorily — in a premonitory manner
  • 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.
  • prerevolution — of the period before a revolution
  • present value — current monetary worth
  • presentiality — the state of being present
  • presettlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
  • pretelevision — occurring before the arrival of television
  • pretentiously — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
  • 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.
  • price control — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
  • prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
  • print spooler — a program that sequences printing jobs by temporarily storing data in a buffer and processing the jobs sequentially.
  • procreational — having the potential to procreate
  • progenitorial — characteristic of a progenitor
  • proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
  • prolonge knot — a knot consisting of three overlapping loops formed by a single rope passed alternately over and under itself at crossings.
  • protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
  • protriptyline — a white to yellow powder, C 1 9 H 2 1 N, used for the treatment of depression.
  • prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
  • prudentialist — a person who acts prudentially
  • prudentiality — prudential nature or practice
  • pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
  • purple martin — a large American swallow, Progne subis, the male of which is blue-black.
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