13-letter words containing c, a, n, o, t, e
- piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
- 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
- piezomagnetic — involving or relating to the production of a magnetic field by applying a mechanical stress to certain crystals
- 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
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- 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.
- polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
- polytechnical — relating to a technical school
- post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
- post-actinide — transactinide
- postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
- pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
- 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.
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
- precipitation — the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- preexcitation — the act of exciting.
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
- premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
- preoccupation — the state of being preoccupied.
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- procrastinate — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procreational — having the potential to procreate
- product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
- prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- proteinaceous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quartodeciman — one of a group of early Christians who observed Easter on the day of the Jewish Passover regardless of whether or not it was Sunday
- rapprochement — an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations: a rapprochement reached between warring factions.
- ratiocinative — the process of logical reasoning.
- re-activation — to render active again; revive.
- re-allocation — the act of allocating; apportionment.
- re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
- reacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- reaction rate — The reaction rate is the speed at which a reaction happens, measured by the speed at which the feed is consumed or the speed at which the product is formed.
- reaction time — the interval between stimulation and response.
- reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
- reapplication — an act or the process of reapplying a substance