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15-letter words containing c, o, n, e, a

  • personal column — The personal column in a newspaper or magazine contains messages for individual people and advertisements of a private nature.
  • personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
  • pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
  • phenakistoscope — an early form of a zoetrope in which figures are depicted in different poses around the edge of a disc. When the disc is spun, and the figures observed through the apertures around the edge of the disc, they appear to be moving
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • phonemicization — a grouping of phonemes
  • phoneticization — the representation of speech in writing using a system in which individual symbols reflect speech sounds in a regular manner
  • phosphocreatine — a compound, C 4 H 1 0 O 5 N 3 P, found chiefly in muscle, formed by the enzymatic interaction of an organic phosphate and creatine, the breakdown of which provides energy for muscle contraction.
  • photoexcitation — the creation of an increase in energy in atoms, molecules or ions caused by the absorption of a photon
  • photomechanical — noting or pertaining to any of various processes for printing from plates or surfaces prepared by the aid of photography.
  • phrenologically — in a manner relating to phrenology
  • phytopathogenic — of, possessing the properties of, or relating to a phytopathogen
  • piano reduction — a musical score having the parts condensed or simplified in two staves, to render the music playable on the piano by one person.
  • pick and choose — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
  • pick-and-shovel — marked by drudgery; laborious: the pick-and-shovel work necessary to get a political campaign underway.
  • pinochet ugarte — Augusto [ou-goos-taw] /aʊˈgus tɔ/ (Show IPA), 1915–2006, Chilean army general and political leader: president 1973–90.
  • pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
  • pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
  • plain chocolate — dark eating chocolate
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • planned economy — an economic system in which the government controls and regulates production, distribution, prices, etc.
  • plantaginaceous — relating to or belonging to the family Plantaginaceae
  • plastic surgeon — doctor who performs cosmetic surgery
  • plate tectonics — a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under, or move past adjacent plates.
  • plumbaginaceous — belonging to the Plumbaginaceae, the leadwort family of plants.
  • point d'alencon — Alençon lace (def 1).
  • police marksman — a police officer skilled in precision shooting, esp with a sniper rifle
  • policy issuance — Policy issuance is the process of creating an insurance policy and providing it to the policyholder.
  • polychlorinated — having multiple chlorine atoms
  • polycrystalline — (of a rock or metal) composed of aggregates of individual crystals.
  • portland cement — a type of hydraulic cement usually made by burning a mixture of limestone and clay in a kiln.
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • pre-acquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • pre-celebration — an act of celebrating.
  • pre-concentrate — to bring or draw to a common center or point of union; converge; direct toward one point; focus: to concentrate one's attention on a problem; to concentrate the rays of the sun with a lens.
  • pre-contractual — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • pre-romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
  • preconceptional — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
  • premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
  • prenotification — notice that is given or served prior to a specific date; advance notice.
  • press of canvas — the most sail a vessel can carry under given conditions
  • preverification — the state of being verified.
  • price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
  • prince of peace — Jesus Christ, regarded by Christians as the Messiah. Isa. 9:6.
  • prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
  • private company — a company whose shareholders may not exceed 50 in number and whose shares may not be offered for public subscription.
  • pro-confederate — united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
  • process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
  • processionalist — a member of a procession
  • procrastinative — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
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