11-letter words containing c, l, y, p
- physicalize — to express in physical terms; give form or shape to: The dancers physicalized the mood of the music.
- physiologic — of or relating to physiology.
- piacularity — the state of being piacular
- pictorially — pertaining to, expressed in, or of the nature of a picture.
- pilgarlicky — bald or growing bald
- piscatology — the art or science of fishing.
- placatingly — in a placating manner
- placelessly — in a placeless manner
- plaid cymru — the Welsh nationalist party
- plantocracy — government by plantation owners.
- platycnemia — (in the shinbone) the state of being laterally flattened.
- platykurtic — (of a frequency distribution) less concentrated about the mean than the corresponding normal distribution.
- play doctor — a person, usually a professional playwright, employed to improve a script, especially shortly before the play's opening.
- play-acting — Play-acting is behaviour where someone pretends to have attitudes or feelings that they do not really have.
- play-centre — a regular meeting of small children arranged by their parents or a welfare agency to give them an opportunity of supervised creative play
- plyometrics — a system of exercise in which the muscles are repeatedly stretched and suddenly contracted
- poikilocyte — an abnormally shaped red blood cell
- policy loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company to a policyholder with the cash value of the policy serving as security.
- policy term — The policy term is the lifetime of an insurance policy.
- policy unit — a body of political advisors to the British Prime Minister
- policy wonk — a person who studies or makes political policies, esp one who has a strong enthusiasm for technical details
- policymaker — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- policyowner — policyholder.
- politically — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- polyactinal — possessing many rays
- polyalcohol — polyol.
- polycarpous — producing fruit many times, as a perennial plant.
- polycentric — having many centers, especially of power or importance: the polycentric world of banking.
- polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
- polychotomy — the division of something into multiple parts
- polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours
- polychromic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
- polycrotism — a polycrotic condition
- polycrystal — an object composed of randomly oriented crystals, formed by rapid solidification
- polyculture — the raising at the same time and place of more than one species of plant or animal.
- polydactyly — the condition of being polydactyl.
- polygenetic — Biology. relating to or exhibiting polygenesis.
- polygraphic — an instrument for receiving and recording simultaneously tracings of variations in certain body activities.
- polymorphic — polymorphism
- polynuclear — having many nuclei.
- polytechnic — of, relating to, or offering instruction in a variety of industrial arts, applied sciences, or technical subjects: a polytechnic institute.
- polytrophic — (of certain bacteria) deriving nourishment from many organic substances.
- polyvalence — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
- post-cyclic — denoting rules that apply only after the transformations of a whole cycle
- postpyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- potvaliancy — brave only as a result of being drunk.
- power cycle — (hardware) (Or "cycle power", "cycle") To turn a machine's power off and on, with the intention of clearing some kind of hung or gronked state. Synonym 120 reset; see also Big Red Switch. Compare Vulcan nerve pinch, bounce and boot, and see the AI Koan about Tom Knight and the novice.
- practically — in effect; virtually: It is practically useless to protest.
- preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
- precedently — in a precedent or preceding fashion, beforehand