13-letter words containing c, y, p
- master policy — a single policy covering a group of people, typically employees of a company, issued to an employer.
- megalocephaly — Cephalometry, Craniometry. macrocephalic.
- megasporocyte — a diploid cell in plants that undergoes meiosis to create four haploid megaspores.
- mesaticephaly — the state or condition of being mesaticephalic or mesocephalic
- metaphoricity — The power of a metaphor.
- metaphysician — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
- metaphysicist — a person who creates or develops metaphysical theories.
- metaphysicize — to think, write, etc, metaphysically
- mexican poppy — any tropical American poppy of the genus Argemone, especially A. mexicana (Mexican poppy) having prickly pods and leaves and yellow or white, poppylike flowers.
- micropayments — Plural form of micropayment.
- microphyllous — having microphylls
- microporosity — the state of being microporous
- military coup — a coup organized and carried out by members of the armed forces
- military pace — a pace, equal to a single step, used to coordinate the marching of soldiers, equal in the U.S. to 2½ feet (76 cm) for quick time and 3 feet (91 cm) for double time.
- molly pitcher — Molly (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley) 1754–1832, American Revolutionary heroine.
- morphemically — By means of, or in terms, of morphemes.
- musicotherapy — the treatment of mental disorders with music
- mycetophagous — That feeds on fungi.
- mycoplasmosis — a disease in animals and humans caused by mycoplasma
- myrmecophiles — Plural form of myrmecophile.
- narcohypnosis — the use of drugs to induce hypnosis
- necktie party — a lynching or other execution by hanging.
- neuroatypical — Having an atypical neurological configuration.
- nincompoopery — a fool or simpleton.
- non-complying — failure or refusal to comply, as with a law, regulation, or term of a contract.
- noncompulsory — Not compulsory.
- nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
- norway spruce — a European spruce, Picea abies, having shiny, dark-green needles, grown as an ornamental.
- notary public — a public officer or other person authorized to authenticate contracts, acknowledge deeds, take affidavits, protest bills of exchange, take depositions, etc.
- nymphaeaceous — belonging to the Nymphaeaceae, the water lily family of plants.
- nymphomaniacs — Plural form of nymphomaniac.
- olympic games — international sports event
- omoplatoscopy — Divination by use of a shoulder blade.
- onychophagist — the practice of biting one's nails, especially when done habitually and as a symptom of emotional disturbance.
- onychophorans — Plural form of onychophoran.
- opera company — a company that puts on productions of operas
- orchesography — a written study of dancing
- orthoepically — In terms of correct pronunciation.
- oscillography — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
- palaeocrystic — consisting of former glacial formation
- palaeoecology — the study of fossil animals and plants in order to deduce their ecology and the environmental conditions in which they lived
- pancreatotomy — incision of the pancreas.
- parabolically — of, relating to, or involving a parable.
- paradoxically — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- parapsychosis — an abnormal psychosis
- parasitically — of, relating to, or characteristic of parasites.
- parasynthetic — the formation of a word by the addition of a derivational suffix to a phrase or compound, as of greathearted, which is great heart plus -ed.
- parry channel — a water channel in N Canada running between Baffin Bay on the E and the Arctic Ocean on the W: separates the Queen Elizabeth Islands (N) from the rest of the Arctic Archipelago.
- parsley sauce — a white sauce containing chopped parsley
- parthenocarpy — the production of fruit without fertilization of an egg in the ovary.