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13-letter words containing c, r, i, m, p, e

  • opera comique — comic opera.
  • paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
  • particle beam — Physics. a concentrated stream of particles, as electrons, neutrons, or protons, generated for studying particle interactions, nuclear structure, crystal structure, etc.
  • party machine — the internal organization of a political party, which decides its policies and directs its activities
  • penicilliform — in the shape of a pencil or paintbrush
  • perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
  • perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
  • perilymphatic — the fluid between the bony and membranous labyrinths of the ear.
  • perspectivism — the doctrine that reality is known only in terms of the perspectives of it seen by individuals or groups at particular moments.
  • petrochemical — a chemical substance obtained from petroleum or natural gas, as gasoline, kerosene, or petrolatum.
  • pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
  • pharmacopoeia — a book published usually under the jurisdiction of the government and containing a list of drugs, their formulas, methods for making medicinal preparations, requirements and tests for their strength and purity, and other related information.
  • pickup camper — camper (def 3).
  • picture frame — mount for a picture
  • pimple copper — a form of copper matte about 80 percent pure, somewhat less refined than blister copper.
  • placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • popcorn movie — a film that appeals to a mass audience
  • postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
  • potomac river — a river flowing SE from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland and Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay. 287 miles (460 km) long.
  • practice exam — an informal examination taken as a preparation for an actual or formal examination
  • practice game — any informal game (of sports, chess, etc) played as preparation for a real game
  • pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
  • pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • pre-committed — to give in trust or charge; consign.
  • pre-eclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
  • pre-eclamptic — a woman suffering from pre-eclampsia
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • precommitment — the act of committing.
  • predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
  • premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
  • premium price — elevated cost paid for sth of top quality
  • primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
  • primary cache — (hardware, architecture)   (L1 cache, level one cache) A small, fast cache memory inside or close to the CPU chip. For example, an Intel 80486 has an eight-kilobyte on-chip cache, and most Pentiums have a 16-KB on-chip level one cache that consists of an 8-KB instruction cache and an 8-KB data cache. The larger, slower secondary cache is normally connected to the CPU via its external bus.
  • privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
  • problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • protectionism — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
  • psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
  • psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
  • ramapithecine — of or relating to an extinct hominoid of the genus Ramapithecus
  • recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
  • recomposition — to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
  • recompression — the act or process of compressing something again
  • recomputation — an act, process, or method of computing; calculation.
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • respirometric — of or relating to respirometers or respirometry
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
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