13-letter words containing p, c, o, s
- polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
- polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
- pontificators — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- popular music — music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies
- porcelaineous — like 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.
- post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
- post-actinide — transactinide
- 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.
- post-colonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
- post-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
- post-consumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
- post-contract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- post-socratic — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
- postage costs — the cost of having mail delivered
- postauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
- postcanonical — written at a later date than the books belonging to a canon, especially the Bible.
- postclassical — of or relating to a time after the classical period, especially in art, culture, or literature.
- postcommunion — the part of a communion service that follows after the congregation has received communion.
- postconciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
- postcranially — affecting the postcranium
- postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
- postemergence — occurring or applied after emergence of a plant from the soil and before full growth: postemergence frost.
- postemergency — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after an emergency
- postepileptic — after an epileptic seizure
- postholocaust — following a holocaust
- postinfection — of, relating to or occurring in the period after infection
- postinjection — the act of injecting.
- postpubescent — a young person in his or her early teens.
- postrecession — occurring or existing in the period after a recession
- postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
- posttraumatic — occurring after physical or psychological trauma.
- postvasectomy — of or occurring in the period after a vasectomy
- potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- pre-disclosed — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
- precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
- precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- prediscussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- press officer — A press officer is a person who is employed by an organization to give information about that organization to the press.
- press section — a section or part of an area, as at the scene of a public event, reserved for reporters.
- pressure cone — a small, radially striated rock structure produced by intense shock, such as generated by meteorite impact.
- pressure-cook — to cook in a pressure cooker.
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- price support — the maintenance of the price of a commodity, product, etc., especially by means of a public subsidy or government purchase of surpluses.
- princess post — (in a queen truss) one of two vertical suspension members supplementing the queen posts nearer to the ends of the span.