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

  • nonappearance — failure to appear, as in a court.
  • noncomparable — not comparable
  • noncooperator — A person who does not cooperate.
  • nonparametric — (of a test or method) not requiring assertions about parameters or about the form of the underlying distribution.
  • nonperiodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
  • nonpracticing — not currently practicing one's profession, religion, etc.: a nonpracticing physician.
  • nonpractising — of or relating to a person who no longer observes or pursues his or her religious faith
  • nonprovincial — Not restricted to a small region; not done in isolation.
  • nonreciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
  • normocephalic — Having a normal sized head; neither macrocephalic nor microcephalic; mesocephalic.
  • northern cape — the largest but least populated province in South Africa, in the NW part of the country; created in 1994 from part of Cape Province: agriculture, mining (esp diamonds). Capital: Kimberley. Pop: 1 145 861 (2011 est). Area: 139 703 sq km (361 830 sq miles)
  • norway spruce — a European spruce, Picea abies, having shiny, dark-green needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • notary public — a public officer or other person authorized to authenticate contracts, acknowledge deeds, take affidavits, protest bills of exchange, take depositions, etc.
  • nuclear power — power derived from nuclear energy.
  • ocean springs — a town in SE Mississippi.
  • oceanographer — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
  • oceanographic — the branch of physical geography dealing with the ocean.
  • old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
  • omnicorporeal — Comprehending or including all bodies; embracing all substance.
  • on the carpet — a heavy fabric, commonly of wool or nylon, for covering floors.
  • onychophorans — Plural form of onychophoran.
  • open fracture — compound fracture.
  • opera comique — comic opera.
  • opera company — a company that puts on productions of operas
  • opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
  • oprahfication — the perceived increase in people’s desire to discuss their emotions or personal problems, attributed to the influence of confessional television programmes
  • optical crown — an optical glass of low dispersion and relatively low refractive index. It is used in the construction of lenses
  • optical drive — optical disk drive
  • optical fiber — optical fibre
  • optical fibre — (communications)   (fibre optics, FO, US "fiber", light pipe) A plastic or glass (silicon dioxide) fibre no thicker than a human hair used to transmit information using infra-red or even visible light as the carrier (usually a laser). The light beam is an electromagnetic signal with a frequency in the range of 10^14 to 10^15 Hertz. Optical fibre is less susceptible to external noise than other transmission media, and is cheaper to make than copper wire, but it is much more difficult to connect. Optical fibres are difficult to tamper with (to monitor or inject data in the middle of a connection), making them appropriate for secure communications. The light beams do not escape from the medium because the material used provides total internal reflection. See also FDDI, Optical Carrier n, SONET.
  • orchesography — a written study of dancing
  • orchestra pit — musicians' seating in front of stage
  • orchestra-pit — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
  • orthocephalic — having a medium or intermediate relation between the height of the skull and the breadth or length.
  • orthoepically — In terms of correct pronunciation.
  • orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
  • oscillographs — Plural form of oscillograph.
  • oscillography — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
  • overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • pacific grove — a city in W California, at S end of Monterey Bay.
  • package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
  • palaeocrystic — consisting of former glacial formation
  • palaeocurrent — an ancient current, esp of water, evidence of which has been preserved in sedimentary rocks as fossilized ripple marks, etc
  • paleotropical — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising the Ethiopian and Oriental regions.
  • pancreatotomy — incision of the pancreas.
  • panharmonicon — a mechanical instrument that imitates orchestral sounds
  • pantisocratic — relating to pantisocracy
  • pao de acucar — Portuguese name of Sugarloaf Mountain.
  • papaveraceous — belonging to the Papaveraceae, the poppy family of plants.
  • parabolically — of, relating to, or involving a parable.
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