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13-letter words containing p, i, c, o, t, e

  • pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • 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.
  • police escort — a police officer or vehicle which accompanies a prisoner
  • politicalized — to cause to be political; color with politics.
  • polycythaemia — an abnormal condition of the blood characterized by an increase in the number of red blood cells. It can occur as a primary disease of unknown cause (polycythaemia vera or erythraemia) or in association with respiratory or circulatory diseases
  • 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).
  • polytechnical — relating to a technical school
  • post-actinide — transactinide
  • postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
  • postepileptic — after an epileptic seizure
  • postinfection — of, relating to or occurring in the period after infection
  • postinjection — the act of injecting.
  • postrecession — occurring or existing in the period after a recession
  • potomac river — a river flowing SE from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland and Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay. 287 miles (460 km) long.
  • praecipitatio — Meteorology. precipitation from a cloud that reaches the surface of the earth (distinguished from virga).
  • pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
  • pre-committed — to give in trust or charge; consign.
  • pre-contrived — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
  • pre-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • pre-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • pre-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
  • preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
  • precipitation — the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • precommitment — the act of committing.
  • preconception — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
  • preconvention — taking place immediately prior to a convention
  • preconviction — a conviction or assurance formed beforehand; a preconceived conviction
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • preexcitation — the act of exciting.
  • prefabricator — someone who or an organization that prefabricates
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
  • premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
  • preoccupation — the state of being preoccupied.
  • preproduction — Movies. the steps necessary to prepare a film for production, as casting, choosing locations, and designing sets and costumes.
  • press section — a section or part of an area, as at the scene of a public event, reserved for reporters.
  • prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
  • prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
  • price control — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
  • 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.
  • priority case — a matter that takes precedence over others
  • pro-celebrity — (of a golf tournament, snooker tournament, etc) involving both professional players and celebrities
  • proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • procrastinate — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • procreational — having the potential to procreate
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