13-letter words containing a, p, o, n
- photogelatine — relating to photographic processes in which gelatine is used in receiving or transferring prints
- photographing — a picture produced by photography.
- photonegative — pertaining to a substance, as selenium, having a conductivity that decreases upon absorption of electromagnetic radiation.
- photoreaction — a chemical reaction that involves or requires light.
- photosynthate — a compound formed by photosynthesis.
- phrygian mode — an authentic church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E.
- physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
- phytopathogen — an organism that causes disease in plants
- phytoplankter — a minute organism which constitutes part of phytoplankton
- phytoplankton — the aggregate of plants and plantlike organisms in plankton.
- phytosanitary — of or relating to the health of plants
- pianississimo — (of a piece of music) to be played even more quietly or softly than pianissimo; abbreviated as ppp
- piano quartet — a musical composition scored for piano and three other instruments, typically violin, viola, and cello.
- piano quintet — a musical composition scored for a string quartet, or other combination of four instruments, and piano.
- piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
- pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
- pico de aneto — Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
- picturization — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- pidginization — to develop (a language) into a pidgin.
- piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
- piezomagnetic — involving or relating to the production of a magnetic field by applying a mechanical stress to certain crystals
- pig in a poke — something not adequately appraised or of undetermined value, as an offering or purchase.
- pigeon breast — chicken breast.
- pigouvian tax — a tax levied to counter an economic negative externality, for example taxing producers of industrial pollution in order to encourage pollution control
- pilot balloon — a balloon for the visual observation of upper-atmosphere wind currents.
- pilot station — Also called pilotage. an onshore office or headquarters for pilots.
- pinar del rio — a city in W Cuba.
- pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
- plain yoghurt — natural yoghurt, without added flavouring
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- plane journey — a journey made by flying in an aeroplane
- plane spotter — a person who observes, photographs, and catalogues aircraft as a hobby
- planetologist — the branch of astronomy that deals with the physical features of the planets.
- plano-concave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
- plant hormone — an organic chemical, as auxin, produced by plant cells and functioning at various sites to regulate growth, turning, metabolic processes, etc.
- plant kingdom — the plants of the world collectively.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- plastoquinone — a quinone that occurs in the chloroplasts of plants and functions as an electron carrier during photosynthesis.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- platinocyanic — of or derived from platinocyanic acid.
- platitudinous — characterized by or given to platitudes.
- 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.
- play on words — a pun or the act of punning.
- plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
- plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
- plough monday — the first Monday after Epiphany, which in N and E England used to be celebrated with a procession of ploughmen drawing a plough from house to house
- plural voting — right to vote more than once
- pluralization — to receive or take a plural form.