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13-letter words containing o, n, p, r, i, c

  • optical crown — an optical glass of low dispersion and relatively low refractive index. It is used in the construction of lenses
  • outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
  • over-cropping — Agriculture. to crop (land) to excess; exhaust the fertility of by continuous cropping.
  • panharmonicon — a mechanical instrument that imitates orchestral sounds
  • pantisocratic — relating to pantisocracy
  • paris commune — commune3 (def 8).
  • participation — an act or instance of participating.
  • passion cross — Latin cross.
  • pecking order — Animal Behavior. a dominance hierarchy, seen especially in domestic poultry, that is maintained by one bird pecking another of lower status.
  • pedantocratic — of or relating to pedantocracy
  • pencil crayon — coloured pencil
  • penicilliform — in the shape of a pencil or paintbrush
  • perchlorinate — to combine with the maximum proportion of chlorine.
  • percussionist — a musician who plays percussion instruments.
  • perfectionate — to perfect; to make perfect
  • perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
  • perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • perichondrium — the membrane of fibrous connective tissue covering the surface of cartilages except at the joints.
  • perscrutation — a very careful exploration or inspection
  • personalistic — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • petrification — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
  • 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.
  • photoreaction — a chemical reaction that involves or requires light.
  • phycoerythrin — a red protein pigment occurring in red algae.
  • physharmonica — a keyboard musical instrument fitted with free reeds, and which is an early form of harmonium
  • piano teacher — tutor of piano-playing
  • 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
  • picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
  • picturization — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
  • platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
  • pococurantist — a person who demonstrates a tendency toward indifference
  • pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • poker machine — a fruit machine
  • polycistronic — of or relating to the transcription of two or more adjacent cistrons into a single messenger RNA molecule.
  • pontchartrain — Lake, a shallow extension of the Gulf of Mexico in SE Louisiana, N of New Orleans. 41 miles (66 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.
  • pontificators — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • popcorn movie — a film that appeals to a mass audience
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • pornification — the perceived pervasion of society in general or an aspect of it by the imagery, language, and attitudes associated with pornography
  • 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.
  • postconciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
  • postcranially — affecting the postcranium
  • postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
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