13-letter words containing c, a, m, p
- pomme blanche — breadroot.
- pompano beach — a city in SE Florida.
- popular music — music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies
- 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.
- posttraumatic — occurring after physical or psychological trauma.
- postvasectomy — of or occurring in the period after a vasectomy
- potamological — of or relating to potamology
- 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.
- practice exam — an informal examination taken as a preparation for an actual or formal examination
- practice game — any informal game (of sports, chess, etc) played as preparation for a real game
- pragmatically — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
- pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- 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-eclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
- pre-eclamptic — a woman suffering from pre-eclampsia
- pre-placement — the act of an employment office or employer in filling a position.
- preattachment — an act of attaching or the state of being attached.
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
- primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
- primary cache — (hardware, architecture) (L1 cache, level one cache) A small, fast cache memory inside or close to the CPU chip. For example, an Intel 80486 has an eight-kilobyte on-chip cache, and most Pentiums have a 16-KB on-chip level one cache that consists of an 8-KB instruction cache and an 8-KB data cache. The larger, slower secondary cache is normally connected to the CPU via its external bus.
- 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.
- prismatically — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- pro-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.
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- program music — music intended to convey an impression of a definite series of images, scenes, or events.
- promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
- prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
- protest march — public demonstration
- protoactinium — protactinium.
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- psychodynamic — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- psychosomatic — of or relating to a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.
- public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
- radio compass — a radio receiver with a directional antenna for determining the bearing of the receiver from a radio transmitter.
- ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
- rapprochement — an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations: a rapprochement reached between warring factions.
- recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
- recomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
- reperformance — a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
- republicanism — republican government.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- sauce supreme — suprême (def 1).
- scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
- scapulimantic — relating to scapulimancy