13-letter words containing m, i, c, a
- phytochemical — Also called phytonutrient. any of various bioactive chemical compounds found in plants, as antioxidants, considered to be beneficial to human health.
- pick up steam — If a belief, a plan, or a project picks up steam, it starts to develop and become more important.
- pickup camper — camper (def 3).
- picramic acid — a red, crystalline substance, C 6 H 5 N 3 O 5 , soluble in alcohol, used chiefly in the manufacture of azo dyes.
- picture frame — mount for a picture
- piece of meat — the flesh of animals as used for food.
- piezomagnetic — involving or relating to the production of a magnetic field by applying a mechanical stress to certain crystals
- placer mining — mining of placer deposits by washing, dredging, or other hydraulic methods
- plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- platinum disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 300 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 600 000 copies
- pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
- poison sumach — an anacardiaceous swamp shrub, Rhus (or Toxicodendron) vernix of the southeastern US, that has greenish-white berries and causes an itching rash on contact with the skin
- poker machine — a fruit machine
- polemological — the analysis of human conflict and war, particularly international war.
- policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
- polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
- polycythaemia — an abnormal condition of the blood characterized by an increase in the number of red blood cells. It can occur as a primary disease of unknown cause (polycythaemia vera or erythraemia) or in association with respiratory or circulatory diseases
- popular music — music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies
- post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
- posttraumatic — occurring after physical or psychological trauma.
- potamological — of or relating to potamology
- potomac river — a river flowing SE from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland and Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay. 287 miles (460 km) long.
- practice exam — an informal examination taken as a preparation for an actual or formal examination
- practice game — any informal game (of sports, chess, etc) played as preparation for a real game
- pragmatically — of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations.
- pre christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- pre-christmas — the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus: celebrated on December 25 and now generally observed as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanging gifts.
- pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
- pre-eclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
- pre-eclamptic — a woman suffering from pre-eclampsia
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
- primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
- primary cache — (hardware, architecture) (L1 cache, level one cache) A small, fast cache memory inside or close to the CPU chip. For example, an Intel 80486 has an eight-kilobyte on-chip cache, and most Pentiums have a 16-KB on-chip level one cache that consists of an 8-KB instruction cache and an 8-KB data cache. The larger, slower secondary cache is normally connected to the CPU via its external bus.
- primary color — Art. a color, as red, yellow, or blue, that in mixture yields other colors. Compare complementary color (def 1), secondary color, tertiary color.
- prismatically — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- program music — music intended to convey an impression of a definite series of images, scenes, or events.
- promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
- protoactinium — protactinium.
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- psychodynamic — Psychology. any clinical approach to personality, as Freud's, that sees personality as the result of a dynamic interplay of conscious and unconscious factors.
- psychosomatic — of or relating to a physical disorder that is caused by or notably influenced by emotional factors.
- public domain — the status of a literary work or an invention whose copyright or patent has expired or that never had such protection.
- quartodeciman — one of a group of early Christians who observed Easter on the day of the Jewish Passover regardless of whether or not it was Sunday