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13-letter words containing c, o, n, e, t, i

  • perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
  • perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • perscrutation — a very careful exploration or inspection
  • personalistic — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • petrification — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • phallocentric — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • photoreaction — a chemical reaction that involves or requires light.
  • phycoerythrin — a red protein pigment occurring in red algae.
  • phyllogenetic — of or relating to the development of leaves.
  • phytocoenosis — the plants of a given area considered as a whole.
  • piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
  • pico de aneto — Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
  • pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
  • picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
  • piezomagnetic — involving or relating to the production of a magnetic field by applying a mechanical stress to certain crystals
  • plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
  • platonic love — Platonism. love of the Idea of beauty, seen as terminating an evolution from the desire for an individual and the love of physical beauty to the love and contemplation of spiritual or ideal beauty.
  • platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
  • plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
  • pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • point success — a peak in W central Washington, to the S of Mount Rainier, in the Cascade Range.14,158 feet (4318 meters).
  • 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.
  • 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
  • post-actinide — transactinide
  • postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
  • postinfection — of, relating to or occurring in the period after infection
  • postinjection — the act of injecting.
  • postrecession — occurring or existing in the period after a recession
  • pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
  • pre-contrived — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
  • pre-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • pre-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
  • precipitation — the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • precommitment — the act of committing.
  • preconception — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
  • preconvention — taking place immediately prior to a convention
  • preconviction — a conviction or assurance formed beforehand; a preconceived conviction
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • preexcitation — the act of exciting.
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
  • premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
  • preoccupation — the state of being preoccupied.
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