13-letter words containing p, e, c, a
- express coach — a fast coach which goes from one place to another directly or with very few stops
- extra-special — particular; exceptional
- extracapsular — (anatomy) Situated outside a capsule, especially outside the capsular ligament of a joint.
- extraparticle — Extraparticle means relating to processes that happen outside the particles in a bed.
- extratropical — Occurring outside the tropics, usually in temperate latitudes.
- face painting — art of decorating the face with paint
- factory price — the price quoted for manufactured goods for pickup at the gate of a factory, before certain handling, shipping, and similar costs.
- feature creep — creeping featurism
- feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
- ferry company — a company that operates a ferry or ferries
- field captain — a member of a team taking active part in a game who is authorized to make decisions for the team, especially in regard to planning plays, deciding whether to accept penalties called by an official against the opponents, etc.
- fitted carpet — wall-to-wall carpeting
- fixed capital — capital goods, as machinery and tools, that are relatively durable and can be used repeatedly in the production of goods.
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
- french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
- friction tape — a cloth or plastic adhesive tape, containing a moisture-resistant substance, used especially to insulate and protect electrical wires and conductors.
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
- galactic pole — either of the two opposite points on the celestial sphere that are farthest north and south of the Milky Way.
- galvanic pile — voltaic pile.
- gap insurance — GAP insurance pays the difference between what someone owes on their car loan and the actual cash value of the vehicle in the event that it is stolen or damaged.
- gastrohepatic — of, relating to, or involving the stomach and the liver.
- gastrophrenic — (anatomy) Pertaining to the stomach and diaphragm.
- ge-pano-carib — a linguistic phylum comprising a large number of aboriginal languages with scattered distribution in South America east of the Andes.
- genotypically — With reference to a genotype.
- geophysically — In a geophysical manner; in terms of geophysics.
- glacial epoch — Also called glacial period, ice age. the geologically recent Pleistocene Epoch, during which much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered by great ice sheets.
- gomez palacio — a city in Durango state, N central Mexico.
- graphemically — In terms of or by means of graphemes.
- graphic novel — a novel in the form of comic strips.
- graving piece — a piece of wood let into a wooden hull to replace decayed wood.
- grease pencil — a pencil of pigment and compressed grease encased in a spiral paper strip that can be partially unwound to expose a new point and used especially for writing on glossy surfaces.
- greater scaup — any of several diving ducks of the genus Aythya, especially A. marila (greater scaup) of the Northern Hemisphere, having a bluish-gray bill.
- gynaecophobia — (psychology) An irrational fear of women.
- gyrocompasses — Plural form of gyrocompass.
- habeas corpus — a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
- haber process — a process for synthesizing ammonia from gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst.
- hair clippers — device for trimming hair
- hairpin curve — A hairpin curve or a hairpin is a very sharp bend in a road, where the road turns back in the opposite direction.
- hate campaign — A hate campaign is a series of actions which are intended to harm or upset someone, or to make other people have a low opinion of them.
- heat capacity — the heat required to raise the temperature of a substance one degree.
- heliotropical — heliotropic
- helispherical — spiral
- hematopoietic — the formation of blood.
- hemiparasitic — Semiparasitic.
- hemispherical — having the form of a hemisphere.
- hemolymphatic — a fluid in the body cavities and tissues of invertebrates, in arthropods functioning as blood and in some other invertebrates functioning as lymph.
- hepatectomies — Plural form of hepatectomy.
- heptadecanoic — as in heptadecanoic acid, a saturated fatty acid, aka margaric acid