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13-letter words containing a, c, e, p, o, i

  • pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
  • piece of cake — a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
  • piece of meat — the flesh of animals as used for food.
  • piezomagnetic — involving or relating to the production of a magnetic field by applying a mechanical stress to certain crystals
  • pipe of peace — a calumet; peace pipe.
  • plagiocephaly — a deformity of the skull in which one side is more developed in the front, and the other side is more developed in the rear.
  • plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
  • platonic love — Platonism. love of the Idea of beauty, seen as terminating an evolution from the desire for an individual and the love of physical beauty to the love and contemplation of spiritual or ideal beauty.
  • platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
  • plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
  • pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • polemological — the analysis of human conflict and war, particularly international war.
  • police action — a relatively localized military action undertaken by regular armed forces, without a formal declaration of war, against guerrillas, insurgents, or other forces held to be violating international peace and order.
  • polio vaccine — a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
  • politicalized — to cause to be political; color with politics.
  • polling place — a place at or in which votes in an election are cast.
  • polycythaemia — an abnormal condition of the blood characterized by an increase in the number of red blood cells. It can occur as a primary disease of unknown cause (polycythaemia vera or erythraemia) or in association with respiratory or circulatory diseases
  • polytechnical — relating to a technical school
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • post-actinide — transactinide
  • potomac river — a river flowing SE from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland and Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay. 287 miles (460 km) long.
  • praecipitatio — Meteorology. precipitation from a cloud that reaches the surface of the earth (distinguished from virga).
  • praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
  • pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • pre-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • pre-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
  • precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
  • precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
  • precipitation — the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • preexcitation — the act of exciting.
  • prefabricator — someone who or an organization that prefabricates
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
  • prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
  • premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
  • preoccupation — the state of being preoccupied.
  • prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
  • prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
  • priority case — a matter that takes precedence over others
  • proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
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