13-letter words containing t, r, a, p, i, n
- apron strings — If you say that someone is tied to another person's apron strings, you mean that they are controlled or influenced too much by the other person.
- armor-plating — The armor-plating on a vehicle or building is the hard metal covering that is intended to protect it from gunfire and other missiles.
- aspirationals — Plural form of aspirational.
- austrian pine — an evergreen tree, Pina nigra austriaca
- bearing plate — a heavy metal plate for receiving and distributing concentrated weight, as from a column or one end of a truss.
- bipartisanism — the quality of being bipartisan
- birth parents — a child's biological parents, regardless of whether they subsequently bring up the child
- bring to pass — to cause to happen
- by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
- c corporation — A C corporation is a type of corporation which is taxed on its income.
- camp-drafting — a competitive test, esp at an agricultural show, of horsemen's skill in drafting cattle
- candy striper — a volunteer worker in a hospital
- candy-striped — (esp of clothing fabric) having narrow coloured stripes on a white background
- candy-striper — a person, often a teenager, who works as a volunteer in a hospital.
- caprification — a method of pollinating the edible fig by hanging branches of caprifig flowers in edible fig trees. Parasitic wasps in the caprifig flowers transfer pollen to the edible fig flowers
- carpet knight — a soldier who spends his life away from battle; idler
- carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
- carton-pierre — papier-mâché decorated in imitation of wood, stone, or metal, and chiefly used for ornamental statuary or decorative motifs.
- cartoon strip — A cartoon strip is a series of drawings that tells a story.
- cartridge pen — a pen having a removable ink reservoir that is replaced when empty
- central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- centripetally — Towards a centre or axis.
- chain printer — a line printer in which the type is on a continuous chain, used to print computer output
- chart-topping — very popular; coming top in the charts
- cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
- coconspirator — a fellow conspirator
- coin-operated — (of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin
- compartimento — any of the 18 administrative districts into which Italy is divided.
- complimentary — If you are complimentary about something, you express admiration for it.
- conspiracists — Plural form of conspiracist.
- conspiratress — a woman who conspires
- conspurcation — the act of defiling
- constupration — the act of raping or violating
- contact print — a photographic print made by exposing the printing paper through a negative placed directly onto it
- containerport — a shipping port specially equipped to handle containerized cargo
- containership — a ship specially designed or equipped for carrying containerized cargo
- contracepting — to prevent the conception of (offspring).
- contraception — Contraception refers to methods of preventing pregnancy.
- contraceptive — A contraceptive method or device is a method or a device which a woman uses to prevent herself from becoming pregnant.
- contrapuntist — a composer skilled in counterpoint
- contre-partie — (in buhlwork) an inlay composed of a design in tortoise shell on a background of brass.
- convertiplane — an aircraft that can land and take off vertically by temporarily directing its propulsive thrust downwards
- copartnership — a partnership or association between two equals, esp in a business enterprise
- cornish pasty — A Cornish pasty is a small pie with meat and vegetables inside.
- corporational — an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members. See also municipal corporation, public corporation.
- corporisation — The forming into one body; embodiment.
- corticospinal — Of, or pertaining to, or connecting the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord.
- court packing — an unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.
- craftsmanship — Craftsmanship is the skill that someone uses when they make beautiful things with their hands.
- cranioscopist — a practitioner of cranioscopy