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

  • border patrol — a government agency in charge of preventing terrorists, weapons, and illegal immigrants entering the country
  • border police — the force in charge of policing a border
  • bottle-opener — A bottle-opener is a metal device for removing caps or tops from bottles.
  • bridge player — a person who plays the game of bridge
  • brook lamprey — a jawless fish, Lampetra planeri, native to the European part of the Atlantic Ocean and the northwest Mediterranean
  • bullace grape — the thick-skinned musk-scented purple grape produced by this plant: used to make wine
  • butterfly pea — any of several leguminous plants of the genus Clitoria, as C. mariana, of North America, having pale-blue flowers.
  • byte compiler — byte-code compiler
  • calliper rule — a measuring instrument having two parallel jaws, one fixed at right angles to the end of a calibrated scale and the other sliding along it
  • camp follower — If you describe someone as a camp follower, you mean that they do not officially belong to a particular group or movement but support it for their own advantage.
  • campylobacter — a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis
  • cape coloured — (formerly, in South Africa) a racial classification under apartheid for people of mixed ethnic origin
  • cape marigold — any composite plant of the genus Dimorphotheca, having variously colored, daisylike flowers.
  • cape-farewell — Cape, a cape in S Greenland: most southerly point of Greenland.
  • cape-flattery — Cape, a cape in NW Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula, at the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • capellmeister — a person in charge of an orchestra, esp in an 18th-century princely household
  • capsule range — a small range of clothes by a particular designer, intended to be representative of the full range
  • card walloper — (jargon)   An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do things like print people's paychecks. Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind.
  • carpal tunnel — forearm to hand
  • carpet beetle — any of various beetles of the genus Anthrenus, the larvae of which feed on carpets, furnishing fabrics, etc: family Dermestidae
  • caryophyllene — (organic compound) A sesquiterpene (containing a cyclobutane ring) found in the essential oils of several plants such as clove and pepper.
  • ceiling price — the top price
  • central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • centripetally — Towards a centre or axis.
  • century plant — an agave, Agave americana, native to tropical America but naturalized elsewhere, having very large spiny greyish leaves and greenish flowers on a tall fleshy stalk. It blooms only once in its life, after 10 to 30 years (formerly thought to flower after a century)
  • cephalometric — Relating to cephalometrics.
  • cephaloridine — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
  • cephalosporin — any of a group of broad-spectrum antibiotics obtained from fungi of the genus Cephalosporium
  • cephalothorax — the anterior part of many crustaceans and some other arthropods consisting of a united head and thorax
  • cerebrospinal — of or relating to the brain and spinal cord
  • ceruloplasmin — a protein responsible for copper detoxification, found in the blood
  • chaparral pea — a thorny leguminous Californian shrub, Pickeringia montana, with reddish-purple showy flowers
  • chapel de fer — a medieval open helmet, often having a broad brim for deflecting blows from above.
  • charter plane — a plane that has been chartered
  • child process — (operating system)   A process created by another process (the parent process). Each process may create many child processes but will have only one parent process, except for the very first process which has no parent. The first process, called init in Unix, is started by the kernel at boot time and never terminates. A child process inherits most of its attributes, such as open files, from its parent. In fact in Unix, a child process is created (using fork) as a copy of the parent. The chid process can then overlay itself with a different program (using exec) as required.
  • chilli powder — Chilli powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chillies. It is used in cooking.
  • chlamydospore — a thick-walled asexual spore of many fungi: capable of surviving adverse conditions
  • chopped liver — cooked liver chopped with onions and hard-boiled eggs and seasoned.
  • chorepiscopal — (in early Christianity) relating to or connected with a local bishop
  • choripetalous — polypetalous
  • chromatophile — Also, chromophilic, chromophilous [kroh-mof-uh-luh s] /kroʊˈmɒf ə ləs/ (Show IPA), chromatophilic, chromatophilous. staining readily.
  • chrysophilite — a person who loves gold
  • circumspectly — watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent: circumspect behavior.
  • clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
  • claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
  • clear-up rate — the percentage of a category of crimes that are solved
  • clinopyroxene — a member of the pyroxene group of minerals having a monoclinic crystal structure, such as augite, diopside, or jadeite
  • clipper-built — (of a hull) having fast lines, with a high ratio of length to beam and a fine entrance.
  • clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
  • close-cropped — Close-cropped hair or grass is cut very short.
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