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13-letter words containing a, l, p, n, c

  • placentia bay — a bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the SE coast of Newfoundland, Canada, W of the Avalon Peninsula. About 100 miles (160 km) long and 80 miles (129 km) wide.
  • placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
  • plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
  • plano-concave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
  • plasma screen — A plasma screen is a type of thin television screen or computer screen that produces high-quality images.
  • plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
  • platinic acid — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, H 2 PtO 3 , used chiefly in platinization.
  • platinocyanic — of or derived from platinocyanic acid.
  • platinum disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 300 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 600 000 copies
  • 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.
  • playing cards — cards used in playing various games, arranged in decks of four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs): a standard deck has 52 cards
  • playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
  • plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
  • pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
  • pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
  • polio vaccine — a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
  • pollicitation — an offer or promise not yet accepted by the person to whom it was made.
  • polling place — a place at or in which votes in an election are cast.
  • polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
  • polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
  • polytechnical — relating to a technical school
  • pomme blanche — breadroot.
  • pontificality — a priestly role or office
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • post-colonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
  • postcanonical — written at a later date than the books belonging to a canon, especially the Bible.
  • postconciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
  • postcranially — affecting the postcranium
  • practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • pre-placement — the act of an employment office or employer in filling a position.
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
  • prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
  • prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
  • 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.
  • procreational — having the potential to procreate
  • prolification — the production of offspring
  • pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
  • provincialise — to make provincial in character.
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