13-letter words containing l, e, c, a, n
- petit larceny — petty larceny.
- petty larceny — law: minor theft
- phallocentric — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- phenylic acid — phenol (def 1).
- pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
- picture plane — the plane of a painting, drawing, or the like, that is in the extreme foreground of a picture, is coextensive with but not the same as the material surface of the work, is the point of visual contact between the viewer and the picture, and is conceived as a major structural element in the production of abstract or illusionistic forms.
- pitcher plant — any of various insectivorous New World bog plants of the genera Sarracenia, Darlingtonia, and Heliamphora, having tubular or trumpet-shaped leaves containing a liquid in which insects are trapped.
- place setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
- place-setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
- placentia bay — a bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the SE coast of Newfoundland, Canada, W of the Avalon Peninsula. About 100 miles (160 km) long and 80 miles (129 km) wide.
- placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
- plano-concave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
- plasma screen — A plasma screen is a type of thin television screen or computer screen that produces high-quality images.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- 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.
- plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
- pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
- pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- polar nucleus — Botany. either of two female haploid nuclei, in the embryo sac of flowers, that fuse to produce a diploid nucleus, which combines with a male nucleus to form the endosperm.
- 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.
- polio vaccine — a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
- polling place — a place at or in which votes in an election are cast.
- polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
- polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
- polytechnical — relating to a technical school
- pomme blanche — breadroot.
- porcelaineous — like porcelain
- porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
- practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
- pre-placement — the act of an employment office or employer in filling a position.
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
- principalness — the quality or position of being principal
- procreational — having the potential to procreate
- pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quantivalence — quantitative equivalence
- quindecagonal — (geometry) Shaped like a quindecagon; fifteen-sided.