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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
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