13-letter words containing pri
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- privy council — a board or select body of personal advisers, as of a sovereign.
- prix goncourt — Goncourt (def 2).
- prize fighter — A prize fighter is a boxer who fights to win money.
- proprietarily — belonging to a proprietor.
- proprietorial — the owner of a business establishment, a hotel, etc.
- proprioceptor — a receptor located in subcutaneous tissues, as muscles, tendons, and joints, that responds to stimuli produced within the body.
- quasi-private — belonging to some particular person: private property.
- re-prioritize — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- reappropriate — suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.
- release print — Movies. print (def 31).
- repristinated — to restore to the first or original state or condition.
- reserve price — floor price.
- selling price — cost at which sth is put up for sale
- silver spring — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- spiral spring — a form of spring consisting of a wire coiled in a helix.
- sprightliness — animated or vivacious; lively.
- spring a leak — to develop a leak
- spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
- spring binder — a loose-leaf binder in which a single, long, clamplike spring, forming the spine, holds the leaves.
- spring greens — Young cabbages are sometimes referred to as spring greens.
- spring peeper — a tree frog, Hyla crucifer, having an X -shaped mark on the back and voicing a shrill call commonly heard near ponds and swamps of eastern North America in the early spring.
- spring squill — a European liliaceous plant Scilla verna, having small blue or purple flowers
- spring valley — a city in SW California, near San Diego.
- spring-loaded — (of a machine part) kept normally in a certain position by a spring: a spring-loaded safety valve.
- springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- sprint finish — the end of a long race in which competitors speed up as they approach the finish line
- sprint medley — a medley relay in which the first member of a team runs 440 yards, the second and third members run 220 yards each, and the fourth member runs 880 yards.
- sticker price — the dealer's full asking price of a new automobile as shown on a sticker attached to it and accompanied by an itemized list of the cost of its basic and optional equipment and other charges.
- subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
- sulfur spring — a spring the water of which contains naturally occurring sulfur compounds.
- support price — the price at which the government will purchase commodities, especially farm produce, in order to maintain a certain price level.
- take pride in — be proud
- trigger price — if a commodity reaches a trigger price, its price, or the conditions governing its sale are changed; a price at which certain consequences ensue
- unappropriate — not appropriate or suitable
- unreprievable — not able to be reprieved, eased, or postponed
- unreprimanded — a severe reproof or rebuke, especially a formal one by a person in authority.
- upright piano — a piano with an upright rectangular body and with its strings running vertically. Compare spinet (def 1).
- uprighteously — in an upright or moral manner
- volute spring — a coil spring, conical in shape, extending in the direction of the axis of the coil.
- worker-priest — (in France) a Roman Catholic priest who, in addition to his priestly duties, works part-time in a secular job.