13-letter words containing p, a, t, l
- capstan table — drum table.
- capsulization — The act or process of capsulizing.
- captivatingly — to attract and hold the attention or interest of, as by beauty or excellence; enchant: Her blue eyes and red hair captivated him.
- carpal tunnel — forearm to hand
- carpet beetle — any of various beetles of the genus Anthrenus, the larvae of which feed on carpets, furnishing fabrics, etc: family Dermestidae
- cattle plague — rinderpest.
- central islip — a town on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- centripetally — Towards a centre or axis.
- century plant — an agave, Agave americana, native to tropical America but naturalized elsewhere, having very large spiny greyish leaves and greenish flowers on a tall fleshy stalk. It blooms only once in its life, after 10 to 30 years (formerly thought to flower after a century)
- cephalization — (in the evolution of animals) development of a head by the concentration of feeding and sensory organs and nervous tissue at the anterior end
- cephalometric — Relating to cephalometrics.
- cephalothorax — the anterior part of many crustaceans and some other arthropods consisting of a united head and thorax
- charter plane — a plane that has been chartered
- chilkoot pass — a mountain pass in North America between SE Alaska and NW British Columbia, over the Coast Range
- chloroplastal — of or like a chloroplast
- chloroplastic — a plastid containing chlorophyll.
- choripetalous — polypetalous
- chromatophile — Also, chromophilic, chromophilous [kroh-mof-uh-luh s] /kroʊˈmɒf ə ləs/ (Show IPA), chromatophilic, chromatophilous. staining readily.
- circumspatial — Of or pertaining to the surrounding space.
- city planning — City planning is the planning and design of all the new buildings, roads, and parks in a place in order to make them attractive and convenient for the people who live there.
- claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
- clear-up rate — the percentage of a category of crimes that are solved
- cleptomaniacs — kleptomania.
- climatography — an account of a region's climate
- clistocarpous — Mycology. having cleistothecia.
- coastal plain — a plain extending along a coast.
- compact cobol — (language) A subset of COBOL defined, but not published, ca. 1961.
- comparability — capable of being compared; having features in common with something else to permit or suggest comparison: He considered the Roman and British empires to be comparable.
- comparatively — in a comparative manner
- compartmental — divided into compartments: a compartmental office; a compartmental agency.
- compass plant — a tall plant, Silphium laciniatum, of central North America, that has yellow flowers and lower leaves that tend to align themselves at right angles to the strongest light, esp in a north-south plane: family Asteraceae (composites)
- compatability — Misspelling of compatibility.
- compatibilism — (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compatibilist — (philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting compatibilism, the belief that free will and determinism are compatible ideas.
- compatibility — compatible
- complaisantly — (archaic) In a complaisant manner; obligingly.
- complementary — Complementary things are different from each other but make a good combination.
- complicatedly — composed of elaborately interconnected parts; complex: complicated apparatus for measuring brain functions.
- complications — Plural form of complication.
- complimentary — If you are complimentary about something, you express admiration for it.
- compositional — Compositional refers to the way composers and artists use their skills or techniques in their work.
- computability — (computing theory) The property of being computable by purely mechanical means.
- computational — Computational means using computers.
- concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
- conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
- conceptuality — a conceptualization
- conceptualize — If you conceptualize something, you form an idea of it in your mind.
- contemplating — to think studiously; meditate; consider deliberately.