13-letter words containing u, n, p, a, r, l
- non-reputable — held in good repute; honorable; respectable; estimable: a reputable organization.
- notary public — a public officer or other person authorized to authenticate contracts, acknowledge deeds, take affidavits, protest bills of exchange, take depositions, etc.
- nuclear power — power derived from nuclear energy.
- palaeocurrent — an ancient current, esp of water, evidence of which has been preserved in sedimentary rocks as fossilized ripple marks, etc
- pantagruelian — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
- parainfluenza — an influenzalike respiratory infection of animals and humans, caused by any of several paramyxoviruses.
- parallel turn — a turn, executed by shifting one's weight, in which the skis stay parallel
- parental unit — of or relating to a parent.
- parnell shout — a social occasion where each person in a group pays for his or her own entertainment or meal
- peninsula war — a war (1808–14) in Spain and Portugal, with British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops opposing the French.
- peninsularity — the state or fact of being a peninsula
- perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
- perlustration — the act of perlustrating; a thorough inspection or survey, esp of letters for purposes of surveillance
- perpendicular — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
- personal foul — a foul called in certain games, as basketball or football, for illegal body contact or rough, unsportsmanlike play.
- picture plane — the plane of a painting, drawing, or the like, that is in the extreme foreground of a picture, is coextensive with but not the same as the material surface of the work, is the point of visual contact between the viewer and the picture, and is conceived as a major structural element in the production of abstract or illusionistic forms.
- plague-ridden — afflicted by the plague or a plague
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- plane journey — a journey made by flying in an aeroplane
- planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- platiniridium — a natural alloy composed chiefly of platinum and iridium.
- plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
- plug and pray — (humour) The Windows 95 equivalent of the Macintosh's plug and play, referring to difficulties encountered when setting up new hardware under Windows 95.
- plural voting — right to vote more than once
- pluralization — to receive or take a plural form.
- polar nucleus — Botany. either of two female haploid nuclei, in the embryo sac of flowers, that fuse to produce a diploid nucleus, which combines with a male nucleus to form the endosperm.
- popular front — a coalition, usually temporary, of leftist and sometimes centrist political parties, formed against a common opponent, as fascism, and promoting social reform.
- porcelaineous — like porcelain
- port language — ["Communicating Parallel Processes", J. Kerridge et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(1):63-86 (Jan 1986)].
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
- 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.
- premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
- premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- present value — current monetary worth
- preternatural — out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal: preternatural powers.
- pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- protanomalous — of, relating to, or affected by protanomaly
- protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
- prudentialism — a regard for prudential, rather than moral, considerations
- prudentialist — a person who acts prudentially
- prudentiality — prudential nature or practice
- prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
- 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.
- pursuit plane — (formerly) an armed airplane designed for speed and maneuverability in fighting enemy aircraft.