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13-letter words containing l, i, c, e, n

  • pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
  • penicillamine — a chelating agent, C 5 H 1 1 NO 2 S, produced by the degradation of penicillin, used in the treatment of severe rheumatoid arthritis and in heavy metal poisoning.
  • penicilliform — in the shape of a pencil or paintbrush
  • penicillinase — any of a group of enzymes used to treat allergic reactions to penicillin
  • pentadactylic — having five digits on each limb
  • pentasyllabic — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
  • peptidoglycan — a polymer, consisting of polysaccharide and peptide chains, responsible for the structure of the cell wall of bacteria
  • perchlorinate — to combine with the maximum proportion of chlorine.
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • perpendicular — vertical; straight up and down; upright.
  • persian lilac — an Asian lilac, Syringa persica, having pale reddish-purple flowers.
  • personalistic — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • petit larceny — petty larceny.
  • phallocentric — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • phencyclidine — an anesthetic drug, C 1 7 H 2 5 N, used as an animal tranquilizer: also widely used in several forms as an illicit hallucinogen.
  • phenylic acid — phenol (def 1).
  • phyllogenetic — of or relating to the development of leaves.
  • pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • pluripresence — presence in more than one place at the same time
  • pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
  • pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • 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.
  • polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
  • polytechnical — relating to a technical school
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • price control — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
  • 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
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