13-letter words containing c, a, s, o
- outdistancing — Present participle of outdistance.
- ovariectomies — Plural form of ovariectomy.
- over-abstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
- over-cautious — excessively or unnecessarily cautious: Sometimes it doesn't pay to be overcautious in business.
- overachievers — Plural form of overachiever.
- overacuteness — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- overcast seam — a hem with long stitches passing successively over the edge
- overinsurance — (of goods or property) insurance in excess of actual value
- oversocialize — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- oystercatcher — any of several long-billed wading birds of the genus Haematopus that have chiefly black-and-white plumage and that feed on oysters, clams, mussels, etc.
- pablo picasso — Pablo [pah-bloh;; Spanish pah-vlaw] /ˈpɑ bloʊ;; Spanish ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1973, Spanish painter and sculptor in France.
- package store — a store selling sealed bottles or other containers of alcoholic beverages that may only be consumed off the premises.
- packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
- 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.
- palaeocrystic — consisting of former glacial formation
- paleo-asiatic — a member of any of various Mongoloid peoples of northeastern Asia.
- pamlico sound — a sound between the North Carolina mainland and coastal islands.
- pantisocratic — relating to pantisocracy
- papaveraceous — belonging to the Papaveraceae, the poppy family of plants.
- parapsychosis — an abnormal psychosis
- parasoft corp — Distributors of the message passing system Express.
- paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
- passe compose — a grammatical construction of French consisting of the present tense of an auxiliary, either avoir or être, followed by a past participle and corresponding in function to both the English present perfect and the English simple past tenses.
- passion cross — Latin cross.
- passive voice — grammar: verb form takes when subject acted upon
- past historic — the simple past
- pastoral care — help with personal needs and problems given by a teacher
- peace process — A peace process consists of all the meetings, agreements, and negotiations in which people such as politicians are involved when they are trying to arrange peace between countries or groups that are fighting with each other.
- peach blossom — the flower of the peach tree: the state flower of Delaware.
- penobscot bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in S Maine. 30 miles (48 km) long.
- pensacola bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, in NW Florida. About 30 miles (48 km) long.
- pentastichous — (of plant leaves) arranged in five vertical rows
- pentatonicism — the use of a five-tone scale.
- periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
- perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
- perscrutation — a very careful exploration or inspection
- personal call — a private phone call
- personal care — assistance in dressing, grooming, etc., provided to elderly, disabled, or other persons who are unable to care for themselves.
- personalistic — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- perspicacious — having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning: to exhibit perspicacious judgment.
- petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
- phantom stock — an employee bonus expressed as the cash value of a specified amount of company stock to be received at a future date, meant to create employee interest in raising stock prices without giving any stock away.
- pharmacognosy — materia medica (def 2).
- pharyngoscope — an instrument for inspecting the pharynx.
- pharyngoscopy — an examination by means of a pharyngoscope.
- phase encoded — (storage) (PE) A recording method used for 1600 BPI magnetic tapes. Compare NRZI, GCR.
- phelloplastic — an image or a representation that has been fashioned from cork
- philosophical — of or relating to philosophy: philosophical studies.
- phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with