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13-letter words containing t, e, r, s, i, a

  • peninsularity — the state or fact of being a peninsula
  • periarteritis — inflammation of the outer coat and tissues surrounding an artery.
  • perigastritis — the inflammation of the part of the peritoneum surrounding the stomach
  • perihepatitis — the inflammation of the part of the peritoneum surrounding the liver
  • periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
  • perishability — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
  • perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
  • perlustration — the act of perlustrating; a thorough inspection or survey, esp of letters for purposes of surveillance
  • perscrutation — a very careful exploration or inspection
  • perseveration — the act or process of perseverating.
  • perseverative — to repeat something insistently or redundantly: to perseverate in reminding children of their responsibilities.
  • personalistic — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • personalities — the visible aspect of one's character as it impresses others: He has a pleasing personality.
  • pet insurance — health insurance for a pet
  • petit treason — the killing of a husband by his wife, of a lord by his servant, or of an ecclesiastic by a subordinate ecclesiastic.
  • petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
  • phalansterian — of or relating to a phalanstery.
  • phalansterism — a model of society in which members of a community live in the same space and share common belongings
  • pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
  • phraseologist — a person who treats of or is concerned with phraseology.
  • physiotherapy — physical therapy.
  • pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pilaster mass — an engaged pier, usually plain, used as a buttress.
  • pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • pleasure trip — holiday, vacation
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • polyarteritis — inflammation of the layers of an artery or of many arteries, usually caused by a severe hypersensitivity reaction, and characterized by nodules and hemorrhage along the involved vessels.
  • portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
  • posix threads — (programming)   (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
  • post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
  • post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • post-tertiary — denoting or formed after the Tertiary period of geological time
  • posterization — a process for producing a posterlike, high-contrast color reproduction from continuous-tone art by using separation negatives of various densities.
  • postoperative — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • power station — a generating station.
  • practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
  • praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
  • prairie skirt — a full, dirndl-style skirt with a flounce on the bottom edge that is sometimes trimmed or lined to suggest a petticoat underneath.
  • prairie state — Illinois (used as a nickname).
  • prairie style — the style of the architects of the Prairie School.
  • pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
  • pre-christian — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the Christian Era.
  • pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
  • pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
  • preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
  • preantiseptic — (especially of surgery) noting that period of time before the adoption of the principles of antisepsis (about 1867).
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • precapitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
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