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13-letter words containing n, o, l, a, c

  • pensacola bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, in NW Florida. About 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • 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.
  • personal call — a private phone call
  • personal care — assistance in dressing, grooming, etc., provided to elderly, disabled, or other persons who are unable to care for themselves.
  • 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.
  • pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
  • pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
  • plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • plano-concave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
  • 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.
  • polar nucleus — Botany. either of two female haploid nuclei, in the embryo sac of flowers, that fuse to produce a diploid nucleus, which combines with a male nucleus to form the endosperm.
  • 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.
  • policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
  • polio vaccine — a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
  • pollicitation — an offer or promise not yet accepted by the person to whom it was made.
  • polling place — a place at or in which votes in an election are cast.
  • polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
  • polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
  • polytechnical — relating to a technical school
  • pomme blanche — breadroot.
  • pontificality — a priestly role or office
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • 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
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • 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.
  • principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
  • procreational — having the potential to procreate
  • prolification — the production of offspring
  • pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
  • provincialise — to make provincial in character.
  • provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
  • provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
  • provinciality — provincial character.
  • provincialize — to make provincial in character.
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