13-letter words containing l, i, s, c
- pencil pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- pencil stripe — a stripe of varying widths, especially a dark stripe on a light ground.
- pencil-pusher — a person, as a clerk or bookkeeper, whose work involves a considerable amount of writing, record-keeping, etc.
- penicillinase — any of a group of enzymes used to treat allergic reactions to penicillin
- pentasyllabic — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
- periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
- perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
- 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.
- perspectively — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
- petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
- phallic phase — the time from about age three to five when the genitals become the focus of a child's sensual pleasure.
- phelloplastic — an image or a representation that has been fashioned from cork
- philosophical — of or relating to philosophy: philosophical studies.
- phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
- photovoltaics — (used with a singular verb) a field of semiconductor technology involving the direct conversion of electromagnetic radiation as sunlight, into electricity.
- physical file — (file system) A low-level view of the physical characteristics of a file, such as its location on a disk or its physical structure, for example, whether indexed or sequential.
- physicalistic — of or relating to physicalism.
- physicalities — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
- physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
- physiological — of or relating to physiology.
- physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
- pianistically — in a manner or way that is pianistic
- 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
- picturesquely — visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village.
- pietistically — in a pietistical manner
- pilot biscuit — hardtack.
- 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.
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- plastic paddy — a person who, although not born in Ireland, is of Irish descent and places great importance on Irishness
- platinum disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 300 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 600 000 copies
- play politics — the science or art of political government.
- 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
- pluripresence — presence in more than one place at the same time
- pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
- pointillistic — pertaining to or characteristic of pointillism or pointillists.
- police escort — a police officer or vehicle which accompanies a prisoner
- polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
- pollice verso — with thumbs turned downward: the sign made by spectators calling for the death of a defeated gladiator in the ancient Roman circus.
- polycistronic — of or relating to the transcription of two or more adjacent cistrons into a single messenger RNA molecule.
- 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).
- popular music — music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies
- porcelaineous — like porcelain
- post-colonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
- postauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
- postcanonical — written at a later date than the books belonging to a canon, especially the Bible.