13-letter words containing i, n, p, l, a
- platinic acid — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, H 2 PtO 3 , used chiefly in platinization.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- platiniridium — a natural alloy composed chiefly of platinum and iridium.
- platinocyanic — of or derived from platinocyanic acid.
- platinum disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 300 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 600 000 copies
- platitudinize — to utter platitudes.
- platitudinous — characterized by or given to platitudes.
- platonic love — Platonism. love of the Idea of beauty, seen as terminating an evolution from the desire for an individual and the love of physical beauty to the love and contemplation of spiritual or ideal beauty.
- platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
- platyhelminth — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes; a flatworm.
- playing cards — cards used in playing various games, arranged in decks of four suits (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs): a standard deck has 52 cards
- playing field — an expanse of level ground, as in a park or stadium, where athletic events are held.
- playing games — If you say that someone is playing games or playing silly games, you mean that they are not treating a situation seriously and you are annoyed with them.
- playing trick — a card in a hand considered as likely to take a trick, assuming that the player who holds the hand or that player's partner is the declarer.
- playwrighting — the writing of plays
- pleasant hill — a city in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
- pleasantville — a city in SE New Jersey.
- plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
- plesiosaurian — a member of the reptile order Plesiosauria
- plural voting — right to vote more than once
- pluralization — to receive or take a plural form.
- pneumatolysis — the process by which rocks are altered or minerals and ores are formed by the action of vapors given off by magma.
- pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
- podzolization — the process by which the upper layer of a soil becomes acidic through the leaching of bases which are deposited in the lower horizons
- point of sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
- point-of-sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
- pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- pole-vaulting — a field sport in which competitors attempt to clear a high bar with the aid of an extremely flexible long pole
- police action — a relatively localized military action undertaken by regular armed forces, without a formal declaration of war, against guerrillas, insurgents, or other forces held to be violating international peace and order.
- policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
- polio vaccine — a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
- pollicitation — an offer or promise not yet accepted by the person to whom it was made.
- polling place — a place at or in which votes in an election are cast.
- pollinization — pollinate.
- polybutadiene — a rubberlike polymer of butadiene blended with other synthetics to replace natural rubber in tires.
- polydaemonism — the belief in many evil spirits.
- polynomialism — a polynomial naming system
- polytechnical — relating to a technical school
- pompon dahlia — a cultivated variety of the dahlia flower, with a small globelike flower head
- pontificality — a priestly role or office
- poor relation — If you describe one thing as a poor relation of another, you mean that it is similar to or part of the other thing, but is considered to be inferior to it.
- poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
- porcelaineous — like porcelain
- porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
- portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
- post-colonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
- post-prandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
- postcanonical — written at a later date than the books belonging to a canon, especially the Bible.
- postconciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
- postcranially — affecting the postcranium