13-letter words containing l, o, i, n, c, t
- oscillational — characterized by oscillation
- over-analytic — pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic).
- paleomagnetic — Geology. magnetic polarization acquired by the minerals in a rock at the time the rock was deposited or solidified.
- palmification — the fertilization of date palms artificially
- pandiculation — the act of stretching oneself.
- pedicellation — having a pedicel or pedicels.
- 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.
- personalistic — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- phallocentric — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- philanthropic — of, pertaining to, engaged in, or characterized by philanthropy; benevolent: a philanthropic foundation.
- phyllogenetic — of or relating to the development of leaves.
- pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
- pitching tool — a masonry chisel for rough work
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- platinocyanic — of or derived from platinocyanic acid.
- 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.
- pointillistic — pertaining to or characteristic of pointillism or pointillists.
- 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.
- pollicitation — an offer or promise not yet accepted by the person to whom it was made.
- 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).
- polytechnical — relating to a technical school
- pontificality — a priestly role or office
- post-colonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
- 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
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- 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.
- procreational — having the potential to procreate
- prolification — the production of offspring
- provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
- provinciality — provincial character.
- provocational — the act of provoking.
- psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
- punctiliously — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- punctuational — punctuated equilibrium.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- qualification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- racialisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of racialization.
- racialization — to impose a racial interpretation on; place in a racial context.
- radio control — remote control by means of radio signals from a transmitter