13-letter words containing c, o, l, n, s, p
- pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- pointillistic — pertaining to or characteristic of pointillism or pointillists.
- polar nucleus — Botany. either of two female haploid nuclei, in the embryo sac of flowers, that fuse to produce a diploid nucleus, which combines with a male nucleus to form the endosperm.
- polycistronic — of or relating to the transcription of two or more adjacent cistrons into a single messenger RNA molecule.
- polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
- 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).
- porcelaineous — like porcelain
- post-colonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
- postcanonical — written at a later date than the books belonging to a canon, especially the Bible.
- postconciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
- postcranially — affecting the postcranium
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
- psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
- psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyst — a person trained to practice psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- punctiliously — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
- scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
- self-contempt — the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
- self-policing — Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws.
- semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
- slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
- spastic colon — a chronic condition of recurring abdominal pain with constipation or diarrhoea or both
- sphagnicolous — growing in moss
- spinal column — the series of vertebrae in a vertebrate animal forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; spine; backbone.
- splanchnocele — a primitive embryonic body cavity
- splanchnology — the visceral system
- splenectomize — to remove the spleen from
- suffolk punch — a breed of draught horse with a chestnut coat and short legs
- sunspot cycle — the cycle, averaging in duration slightly more than 11 years, in which the frequency of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again.
- supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
- uncomplaisant — not eager to please; not compliant or obliging