13-letter words containing pe
- expectoration — The action of expectorating, of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs by coughing, hawking, or spitting.
- expectorative — an expectorant medicine
- expeditionary — Of or forming an expedition, especially a military expedition.
- expeditionist — (rare) One who goes on an expedition.
- expeditiously — In an expeditious manner.
- expendability — The state or quality of being expendable.
- expensiveness — The state of being expensive; entailing great expense.
- experimenters — Plural form of experimenter.
- experimenting — Present participle of experiment.
- expert advice — advice given by someone who has studied a subject thoroughly or who is very skilled at a particular job
- expert system — (artificial intelligence) A computer program that contains a knowledge base and a set of algorithms or rules that infer new facts from knowledge and from incoming data. An expert system is an artificial intelligence application that uses a knowledge base of human expertise to aid in solving problems. The degree of problem solving is based on the quality of the data and rules obtained from the human expert. Expert systems are designed to perform at a human expert level. In practice, they will perform both well below and well above that of an individual expert. The expert system derives its answers by running the knowledge base through an inference engine, a software program that interacts with the user and processes the results from the rules and data in the knowledge base. Expert systems are used in applications such as medical diagnosis, equipment repair, investment analysis, financial, estate and insurance planning, route scheduling for delivery vehicles, contract bidding, counseling for self-service customers, production control and training.
- extra-special — particular; exceptional
- extrapersonal — Outside of a person; beyond what is personal or individual.
- fairy penguin — a small penguin, Eudyptula minor, with a bluish head and back, found on the Australian coast
- fairy-slipper — Calypso (def 2).
- fanfold paper — continuous paper perforated at regular intervals, as used in a dot-matrix printer
- fellowshipped — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
- filipendulous — Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.
- finger puppet — a miniature puppet fitting over and manipulated by one finger.
- first peoples — any of the indigenous peoples or Indian communities of Canada, especially one formally recognized by the Canadian government.
- fitted carpet — wall-to-wall carpeting
- flesh peddler — a prostitute.
- flesh-peddler — an employment agent or agency, especially one that recruits executives.
- flower people — (esp during the 1960s) young people whose behaviour, dress, use of drugs, etc implied a rejection of conventional values, and who used flowers to symbolize peace and naturalness
- flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- foul-tempered — frequently and unnecessarily sullen or angry
- fourpenny one — a blow, esp with the fist
- free-spending — spending or tending to spend freely: If you don't mend your free-spending ways, you'll go bankrupt.
- friction tape — a cloth or plastic adhesive tape, containing a moisture-resistant substance, used especially to insulate and protect electrical wires and conductors.
- gentle-person — a person of good family and position; gentleman or lady.
- glass slipper — an imaginary ladies' shoe made of glass, as worn by Cinderella in the fairy tale of that name
- glycopeptides — Plural form of glycopeptide.
- goat antelope — any of several wild goats with antelopelike features, including the chamois, goral, serow, and Rocky Mountain goat.
- good-tempered — good-natured; amiable.
- gospel singer — a singer performing gospel music
- grand drapery — a valance across the proscenium arch, forming part of the decorative frame for the stage.
- grand opening — celebratory first-day event
- granite paper — paper containing fibers of various colors that give it a granitelike appearance.
- grape harvest — gathering of ripe grapes from the vine
- grape variety — type of grape
- grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
- greenskeepers — Plural form of greenskeeper.
- groundkeepers — Plural form of groundkeeper.
- groundskeeper — a person who is responsible for the care and maintenance of a particular tract of land, as an estate, a park, or a cemetery.
- guinea pepper — grain of paradise.
- gymnospermous — of or relating to a gymnosperm; having exposed or naked seeds.
- gyro repeater — a navigational compass, under the control of a gyroscope, that automatically indicates true north.
- hair clippers — device for trimming hair
- harpers ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.