13-letter words containing c, a, l, o, e, t
- overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- pact of steel — a military alliance concluded between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on May 22, 1939, committing each to assist the other in the event of war with another power and pledging that neither would seek a separate peace or armistice.
- palaeoclimate — the climate of a prehistoric age
- 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
- paleo-asiatic — a member of any of various Mongoloid peoples of northeastern Asia.
- paleomagnetic — Geology. magnetic polarization acquired by the minerals in a rock at the time the rock was deposited or solidified.
- paleotropical — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising the Ethiopian and Oriental regions.
- parti-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
- party-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- pastoral care — help with personal needs and problems given by a teacher
- peacock plant — a plant, Calathea makoyana, native to Brazil, having leaves that are spotted on the upper surface and purple on the lower surface.
- pearl tapioca — a food substance prepared from cassava in granular, flake, pellet (pearl tapioca) or flour form, used in puddings, as a thickener, etc.
- pedicellation — having a pedicel or pedicels.
- peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
- perchlorinate — to combine with the maximum proportion of chlorine.
- periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
- perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
- personalistic — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- petrochemical — a chemical substance obtained from petroleum or natural gas, as gasoline, kerosene, or petrolatum.
- petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
- phallocentric — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phelloplastic — an image or a representation that has been fashioned from cork
- phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
- photoallergic — photosensitive.
- photochemical — the branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of light.
- photocopiable — able or legally permitted to be photocopied
- phytochemical — Also called phytonutrient. any of various bioactive chemical compounds found in plants, as antioxidants, considered to be beneficial to human health.
- pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- politicalized — to cause to be political; color with politics.
- polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
- 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
- potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
- 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.
- precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.