13-letter words containing pri

prickly poppy — any tropical American poppy of the genus Argemone, especially A. mexicana (Mexican poppy) having prickly pods and leaves and yellow or white, poppylike flowers.
pride and joy — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
pride's purge — the forceful exclusion from the House of Commons, carried out by Col. Thomas Pride in December 1648, of about 100 members who favored compromise with the Royalist party.
priest-ridden — dominated or governed by or excessively under the influence of priests
primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
primary cache — (hardware, architecture) (L1 cache, level one cache) A small, fast cache memory inside or close to the CPU chip. For example, an Intel 80486 has an eight-kilobyte on-chip cache, and most Pentiums have a 16-KB on-chip level one cache that consists of an 8-KB instruction cache and an 8-KB data cache. The larger, slower secondary cache is normally connected to the CPU via its external bus.
primary color — Art. a color, as red, yellow, or blue, that in mixture yields other colors. Compare complementary color (def 1), secondary color, tertiary color.
primary group — a group of individuals living in close, intimate, and personal relationship.
primary metal — metal derived directly from ore rather than from scrap.
primary tense — in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, a tense referring to present or future time
primary tooth — one of the temporary teeth of a mammal that are replaced by the permanent teeth.
primary xylem — xylem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
primigravidas — a woman pregnant for the first time.
primitive gut — archenteron.
primitiveness — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
primitivistic — a recurrent theory or belief, as in philosophy or art, that the qualities of primitive or chronologically early cultures are superior to those of contemporary civilization.
primogenitrix — a primogenitor who is female
primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
primordiality — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
primum mobile — (in Ptolemaic astronomy) the outermost of the 10 concentric spheres of the universe, making a complete revolution every 24 hours and causing all the others to do likewise.
prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
prince george — a city in central British Columbia, in W Canada.
prince regent — a prince who is regent of a country.
prince rupert — Prince, 1619–82, German Royalist general and admiral in the English Civil War (nephew of Charles I of England).
prince's pine — pipsissewa
prince's-pine — pipsissewa.
princess post — (in a queen truss) one of two vertical suspension members supplementing the queen posts nearer to the ends of the span.
principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
principalness — the quality or position of being principal
principalship — first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
print spooler — a program that sequences printing jobs by temporarily storing data in a buffer and processing the jobs sequentially.
print-through — the unwanted transfer of a recorded magnetic field pattern from one turn of magnetic tape to the preceding or succeeding turn on a reel, causing distortion
printer's ink — a type of quick-drying ink used in printing
priority case — a matter that takes precedence over others
priority mail — (in the U.S. Postal Service) mail consisting of merchandise weighing more than 12 ounces sent at first-class rates.
prism diopter — a unit of prismatic deviation, in which the number one represents a prism that deflects a beam of light a distance of one centimeter on a plane placed normal to the initial direction of the beam and one meter away from the prism.
prismatically — of, relating to, or like a prism.
prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
private brand — a product marketed under a private label.
private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
private label — the label of a product, or the product itself, sold under the name of a wholesaler or retailer, by special arrangement with the manufacturer or producer.
private parts — genitalia
private press — a printing establishment primarily run as a pastime
private study — the act or process of studying outwith classes
private trust — a trust designed for the benefit of a designated or known individual (opposed to charitable trust).
privateersman — an officer or sailor of a privateer.
privatization — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.

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