13-letter words containing d, e, p, c, o
- post-actinide — transactinide
- postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
- powder charge — propellant (def 2).
- pre-committed — to give in trust or charge; consign.
- pre-contrived — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
- pre-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- pre-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- pre-disclosed — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
- 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.
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- prediscussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
- premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
- preponderance — the fact or quality of being preponderant; superiority in weight, power, numbers, etc.: The preponderance of votes is against the proposal.
- preproduction — Movies. the steps necessary to prepare a film for production, as casting, choosing locations, and designing sets and costumes.
- pro-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
- product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
- protected sex — sexual activity during which a condom is used to protect against sexually transmitted disease and pregnancy.
- protochordate — any of the nonvertebrate chordates, as the tunicates, cephalochordates, and hemichordates.
- pseudisodomic — (of ashlar) composed of stones having the same length, laid in courses of different heights.
- pseudo-colour — an artificial colour
- pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
- pseudo-poetic — of or relating to a poet or poets.
- pseudo-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- pseudoaquatic — not aquatic but indigenous to moist regions.
- pseudoclassic — falsely or spuriously classic.
- pseudoscience — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
- pycnidiospore — the fruiting body of certain fungi, which contains spore-bearing cells
- radiopacities — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- record player — phonograph.
- recordkeeping — the maintenance of a history of one's activities, as financial dealings, by entering data in ledgers or journals, putting documents in files, etc.
- red corpuscle — a red blood cell.
- redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
- redescription — the act of redescribing
- reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
- second empire — the empire established in France (1852–70) by Louis Napoleon: the successor to the Second Republic.
- second papers — the documents by which an alien formerly made application for U.S. citizenship after having earlier filed a declaration of intention
- second person — the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to the one (second person singular) or ones (second person plural) to whom he or she is speaking.
- self-composed — being or appearing to be composed; calm.
- self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- self-procured — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
- self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
- sigmoidoscope — a rigid or flexible endoscope for visual examination of the rectum and sigmoid colon.
- sophisticated — sophisticated.
- special order — A special order is an extra order or an order for an item specially requested by a customer.
- special-order — to obtain by specific individual order: to special-order a dining-room chandelier.
- speckled wood — a common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots