13-letter words containing a, p, i, c, l, y
- plastic paddy — a person who, although not born in Ireland, is of Irish descent and places great importance on Irishness
- platinocyanic — of or derived from platinocyanic acid.
- platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
- platycephalic — having a head whose cranial vault is broad or flat.
- play politics — the science or art of political government.
- 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.
- pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
- policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
- polyarticular — pertaining to or affecting many joints.
- polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
- 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
- pontificality — a priestly role or office
- postcranially — affecting the postcranium
- pragmatically — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
- precipitately — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- prejudicially — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- 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.
- principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
- prismatically — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- proleptically — anticipatorily
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- provinciality — provincial character.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- psychological — of or relating to psychology.
- psychotically — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
- pyrolytically — in a pyrolytic manner
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quadruplicity — the state or fact of being quadruple or fourfold.
- reciprocality — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- rectipetality — the tendency of growing in a straight line
- replicability — the quality or state of being replicable
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- sophistically — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- space biology — exobiology.
- spasmodically — given to or characterized by bursts of excitement.
- speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
- stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- subspeciality — a particular area of expertise within a specialism
- subtropically — in the subtropics
- superficially — being at, on, or near the surface: a superficial wound.
- superphysical — above or beyond what is physical; hyperphysical.
- sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- tachyphylaxis — Medicine/Medical. immediate, temporary immunization against the effects of injection of a toxic extract owing to previous small injections of the same extract.
- to play cupid — If you say that someone is playing cupid, you mean that they are trying to bring two people together to start a romantic relationship.
- topologically — the study of those properties of geometric forms that remain invariant under certain transformations, as bending or stretching.
- tricarpellary — having three carpels.
- tropical year — year (def 4b).
- type locality — Biology. the locality in which a type specimen was collected.