13-letter words containing d, e, p, o, c
- mispronounced — Said wrongly.
- mock pendulum — a false pendulum bob attached to the balances of certain timepieces and visible through a slot in the dial or case.
- neck and crop — completely; entirely
- niche product — sth of specific or limited consumer interest
- non-deception — the act of deceiving; the state of being deceived.
- non-deceptive — apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
- nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
- nonperiodical — a magazine or other journal that is issued at regularly recurring intervals.
- nonprejudiced — Not prejudiced.
- nonprescribed — Not prescribed.
- nonproductive — not productive; unproductive.
- nucleocapsids — Plural form of nucleocapsid.
- old provencal — the Provençal language as found in documents from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Abbreviation: OPr.
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- opsonic index — the ratio of the number of bacteria destroyed by phagocytes in the blood of a test patient to the number destroyed in the blood of a normal individual
- optical drive — optical disk drive
- optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
- orthopaedical — Pertaining to orthopaedics; characteristic of orthopaedia.
- outer product — cross product.
- output device — (hardware) Electronic or electromechanical equipment connected to a computer and used to transfer data out of the computer in the form of text, images, sounds or other media to a display screen, printer, loudspeaker or storage device. Most modern storage devices such as disk drives and magnetic tape drives act as both input and output devices, others such as CD-ROM are input only.
- over-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- overprocessed — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- pao de acucar — Portuguese name of Sugarloaf Mountain.
- parti-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
- party-colored — having different colors in different areas or patches; variegated: a parti-colored dress.
- peace of mind — reassurance
- pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
- pedagogically — of or relating to a pedagogue or pedagogy.
- pedantocratic — of or relating to pedantocracy
- pedicellation — having a pedicel or pedicels.
- peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
- perboric acid — a hypothetical acid, HBO 3 , known only in the form of its salts.
- perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
- periodic acid — any of a series of acids derived from I 2 O 7 by the addition of water molecules, as HIO 4 or H 5 IO 6 .
- periodic rate — The periodic rate is the interest rate charged for each period, such as monthly or quarterly.
- periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
- perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
- phase encoded — (storage) (PE) A recording method used for 1600 BPI magnetic tapes. Compare NRZI, GCR.
- phonendoscope — an instrument that amplifies small sounds, esp within the human body
- photodetector — photosensor.
- photorecorder — a device for making photographic records.
- physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
- pico de aneto — Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA). Spanish name of Pic de Néthou.
- pico de teide — Pi·co de [pee-kaw th e] /ˈpi kɔ ðɛ/ (Show IPA) a volcanic peak in the Canary Islands, on Tenerife. 12,190 feet (3716 meters).
- police record — an official file, held by the police, containing details of any criminal offences committed by an individual
- polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
- politicalized — to cause to be political; color with politics.
- polycotyledon — a plant having more than two cotyledons, as certain gymnosperms.
- ponce de leon — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), c1460–1521, Spanish explorer.