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13-letter words containing t, o, p, d, r

  • pass the word — If you pass the word, you tell someone something that another person has told you.
  • patent holder — a person or company that holds a patent
  • patriot's day — the third Monday in April, a legal holiday in Me. and Mass. commemorating the battles of Lexington and Concord (April 19, 1775)
  • patriots' day — the anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord (1775), celebrated the third Monday in April: a legal holiday in Massachusetts and Maine.
  • patrol leader — the leader of a division of a troop of Scouts or Guides
  • pedantocratic — of or relating to pedantocracy
  • 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.
  • peppered moth — a European geometrid moth, Biston betularia, occurring in a pale grey speckled form in rural areas and a black form in industrial regions
  • perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
  • periodic rate — The periodic rate is the interest rate charged for each period, such as monthly or quarterly.
  • periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
  • periodization — an act or instance of dividing a subject into historical eras for purposes of analysis and study.
  • periodontally — with respect to periodontal tissue
  • periodontitis — inflammation of the periodontium caused by bacteria that infect the roots of teeth and the surrounding gum crevices, producing bleeding, pus formation, and gradual loss of bone and the tissues that support the teeth. Compare pyorrhea (def 2).
  • periodontosis — rapidly advancing juvenile periodontitis.
  • perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
  • perpend stone — a large stone that passes through a wall from one side to the other
  • petrol-driven — (of a car, engine, etc) powered by petrol
  • phosphoretted — combined with phosphorus, especially in its lowest valence state.
  • phosphuretted — treated or combined with phosphorus
  • photodetector — photosensor.
  • photorecorder — a device for making photographic records.
  • polyprotodont — any marsupial of the group Polyprotodontia, characterized by four or more upper incisor teeth on each side of the jaw: includes the opossums and bandicoots
  • poor-spirited — having or showing a poor, cowardly, or abject spirit.
  • port adelaide — the chief port of South Australia, near Adelaide on St Vincent Gulf. Pop: 33 145 (2006)
  • port du salut — Port-Salut.
  • portrait mode — an orientation that is vertical rather than horizontal
  • 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 meridiem — p.m.
  • 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-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • post-prandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
  • postmodernism — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, especially a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity.
  • postmodernist — relating to late 20th-century art movement
  • postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
  • potter around — If you potter around or potter about, you do pleasant but unimportant things, without hurrying.
  • potty trained — Potty trained means the same as toilet trained.
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • powder method — a method of x-ray determination of crystal structure using a powdered sample.
  • pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
  • pre-committed — to give in trust or charge; consign.
  • pre-contrived — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
  • pre-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • pre-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • pre-mentioned — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
  • pre-portioned — to divide into portions before packaging, selling, etc.: to preportion meals for schools and hospitals.
  • preadaptation — a structure or property that developed in an ancestral stock and was useful in a descendant in a changed environment.
  • preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • predefinition — the process or action of defining in advance; an advance definition
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