13-letter words containing c, l, e, i, t
- platycephalic — having a head whose cranial vault is broad or flat.
- plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
- pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
- pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
- 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.
- police escort — a police officer or vehicle which accompanies a prisoner
- politicalized — to cause to be political; color with politics.
- 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
- polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
- polytechnical — relating to a technical school
- postepileptic — after an epileptic seizure
- practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- pre-eclamptic — a woman suffering from pre-eclampsia
- pre-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- precapitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
- precipitately — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- prescriptible — subject to or suitable for prescription.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- price control — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
- pro-celebrity — (of a golf tournament, snooker tournament, etc) involving both professional players and celebrities
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- procreational — having the potential to procreate
- proleptically — anticipatorily
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- proteoclastic — of, related to, or initiating proteolysis
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
- public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
- pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quadruplicate — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
- qualificative — That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement.
- quantivalence — quantitative equivalence
- quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
- quintuplicate — a group, series, or set of five copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten matter.
- quodlibetical — a subtle or elaborate argument or point of debate, usually on a theological or scholastic subject.
- raffle ticket — a ticket sold in a raffle, representing a chance to win a prize
- re-allocation — the act of allocating; apportionment.
- re-articulate — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
- re-collection — the act of re-collecting or the state of being re-collected.
- re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
- reacclimatize — to acclimatize or become acclimatized again
- realistically — interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner.