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13-letter words containing a, p, r, o, c

  • physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
  • physiographic — the science of physical geography.
  • 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.
  • pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
  • picturization — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
  • place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
  • plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
  • platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
  • pleurocarpous — (of certain mosses) bearing the fructifications along the main stem or lateral branches.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
  • pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
  • pococurantist — a person who demonstrates a tendency toward indifference
  • pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • 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.
  • polyarticular — pertaining to or affecting many joints.
  • polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
  • polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
  • pontchartrain — Lake, a shallow extension of the Gulf of Mexico in SE Louisiana, N of New Orleans. 41 miles (66 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.
  • pontificators — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • popular music — music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • pornification — the perceived pervasion of society in general or an aspect of it by the imagery, language, and attitudes associated with pornography
  • port harcourt — a seaport in S Nigeria.
  • post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
  • post-contract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
  • post-socratic — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
  • postauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
  • postconciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
  • postcranially — affecting the postcranium
  • postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
  • posttraumatic — occurring after physical or psychological trauma.
  • potomac fever — the determination or fervor to share in the power and prestige of the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., especially by being appointed or elected to a government position.
  • 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.
  • potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
  • powder charge — propellant (def 2).
  • praecipitatio — Meteorology. precipitation from a cloud that reaches the surface of the earth (distinguished from virga).
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
  • praxiological — the study of human conduct.
  • 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-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
  • 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.
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
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