13-letter words containing i, c, e, p
- irreplaceably — In an irreplaceable manner; (frequently) uniquely, singularly.
- isle of capri — Capri.
- japanese chin — one of a Japanese breed of toy dogs having a long, silky, black and white or red and white coat and a tail carried over the back.
- jurisprudence — the science or philosophy of law.
- kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
- keep in touch — stay in contact
- kenyapithecus — a genus of fossil hominoids of middle Miocene age found in Kenya and having large molars, small incisors, and powerful chewing muscles.
- king's speech — (in the British Parliament) a speech reviewing domestic conditions and foreign relations, prepared by the ministry in the name of the sovereign, and read at the opening of the Parliament either by the sovereign in person or by commission.
- kiss of peace — (in certain Christian churches) a ceremonial greeting or embrace given as a token of Christian love and unity.
- kitchen paper — also kitchen roll
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- knobcone pine — a pine, Pinus attenuata, of the Pacific coast of the U.S., bearing cones with knoblike scales.
- komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
- kosher pickle — a garlic-flavored pickle, sold especially in Jewish delicatessens.
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- laparoscopies — Plural form of laparoscopy.
- lepidocrocite — a ruby-red to reddish-brown orthorhombic mineral, iron oxyhydroxide, FeO(OH), dimorphous with goethite: an ore of iron, used as a pigment.
- leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
- leptocephalic — having a narrow skull
- leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
- letterspacing — the amount of space between each letter in a word, or the adjustment of this amount of space
- lexical scope — (programming) (Or "static scope") When the scope of an identifier is fixed at compile time to some region in the source code containing the identifier's declaration. This means that an identifier is only accessible within that region (including procedures declared within it). This contrasts with dynamic scope where the scope depends on the nesting of procedure and function calls at run time. Statically scoped languages differ as to whether the scope is limited to the smallest block (including begin/end blocks) containing the identifier's declaration (e.g. C, Perl) or to whole function and procedure bodies (e.g. ECMAScript), or some larger unit of code (e.g. ?). The former is known as static nested scope.
- lexicographer — a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.
- lexicographic — Like a dictionary, relating to lexicography (the writing of a dictionary).
- lexigraphical — Misspelling of lexicographical.
- license plate — a plate or tag, usually of metal, bearing evidence of official registration and permission, as for the use of a motor vehicle.
- lickety-split — at great speed; rapidly: to travel lickety-split.
- life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
- line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
- liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
- lipstick tree — annatto (def 1).
- little prince — an allegorical fantasy (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
- locking piece — (in a striking train) a hooked part, rising and falling on a locking plate and arresting the rotation of the plate after the proper number of strokes.
- locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
- loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
- lunar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- lymphoid cell — a cell in the lymph glands that produces leukocytes.
- macrocephalic — Cephalometry. being or having a head with a large cranial capacity.
- macroparasite — (biology) Any parasite that is visible to the naked eye.
- magnetic pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
- magnetic tape — strip sensitive to electromagnets
- magnetic-tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
- magnetooptics — the branch of physics that deals with magnetooptic phenomena.
- maiden speech — the first speech made in a legislature by a newly elected member.
- masking piece — a flat, curtain, or other piece of scenery for concealing a part of a stage from the audience.
- master policy — a single policy covering a group of people, typically employees of a company, issued to an employer.
- measuring cup — a graduated cup used especially in cooking for measuring ingredients.
- medicine shop — (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines