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13-letter words containing c, u, n, i, l

  • picture plane — the plane of a painting, drawing, or the like, that is in the extreme foreground of a picture, is coextensive with but not the same as the material surface of the work, is the point of visual contact between the viewer and the picture, and is conceived as a major structural element in the production of abstract or illusionistic forms.
  • platinum disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 300 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 600 000 copies
  • pluripresence — presence in more than one place at the same time
  • pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • privy council — a board or select body of personal advisers, as of a sovereign.
  • public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
  • punctiliously — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
  • punctuational — punctuated equilibrium.
  • purkinje cell — a large, densely branching neuron in the cerebellar cortex of the brain.
  • qualification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • quantivalence — quantitative equivalence
  • quincuncially — In a quincuncial fashion.
  • quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.
  • quindecennial — of or relating to a period of 15 years or the 15th occurrence of a series, as an anniversary.
  • quindecillion — a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 48 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 90 zeros.
  • quintuplicate — a group, series, or set of five copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten matter.
  • rambling club — a club for people who enjoy taking walks in the country
  • recalculation — recount, act of computing again
  • recirculation — an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit, or flowing.
  • reclusiveness — the state or quality of being reclusive
  • recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
  • reducibleness — the extent, state or quality of being reducible
  • reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
  • reinoculation — a further inoculation of the same organism as the first inoculation
  • relubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • republicanize — to make republican.
  • republication — publication anew.
  • revictualling — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
  • rural science — the study and theory of agriculture, biology, ecology, and associated fields
  • saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
  • salviniaceous — relating to the genus Salviniaceae
  • sansculottism — (in the French Revolution) a revolutionary of the poorer class: originally a term of contempt applied by the aristocrats but later adopted as a popular name by the revolutionaries.
  • saving clause — a clause which denotes a reservation or exception
  • scapulimantic — relating to scapulimancy
  • school outing — a short trip that a school organizes for schoolchildren, usually during the school day, to a place of interest such as museum or art gallery
  • seclusiveness — tending to seclude, especially oneself.
  • selenium cell — a photovoltaic cell consisting of a thin strip of selenium placed between two metal electrodes.
  • selenous acid — a colorless, transparent, crystalline powder, H2SeO3, soluble in water and used as a reagent
  • self-incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • single sculls — a race for sculls each rowed by one oarsman using a pair of oars.
  • sinistrocular — favoring the left eye, rather than the right, by habit or for effective vision (opposed to dextrocular).
  • slimming club — a group of people who meet regularly and are all trying to lose weight
  • social column — a column in a newspaper or magazine that details the activities of members of fashionable society
  • somniloquence — sleep-talking
  • 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.
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