13-letter words containing p, i, c, t, u
- pharmaceutics — a pharmaceutical preparation or product.
- photoacoustic — optoacoustic
- physoclistous — having the air bladder closed off from the mouth.
- pick up steam — If a belief, a plan, or a project picks up steam, it starts to develop and become more important.
- pick-up joint — a place where people go with the intention of meeting someone to start a sexual relationship with
- pick-up point — the prearranged place where you go to collect people or things
- pick-up stick — one of a group of sticks used in the game of jackstraws.
- picture frame — mount for a picture
- picture phone — a mobile phone that can take, send, and receive photographs
- picture plane — the plane of a painting, drawing, or the like, that is in the extreme foreground of a picture, is coextensive with but not the same as the material surface of the work, is the point of visual contact between the viewer and the picture, and is conceived as a major structural element in the production of abstract or illusionistic forms.
- picturesquely — visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village.
- picturization — to represent in a picture, especially in a motion picture; make a picture of.
- pilot biscuit — hardtack.
- pitch surface — (in a gear or rack) an imaginary surface forming a plane (pitch plane) a cylinder (pitch cylinder) or a cone or frustrum (pitch cone) that moves tangentially to a similar surface in a meshing gear so that both surfaces travel at the same speed.
- platinum disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 300 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 600 000 copies
- pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
- pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
- pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
- pococurantist — a person who demonstrates a tendency toward indifference
- point success — a peak in W central Washington, to the S of Mount Rainier, in the Cascade Range.14,158 feet (4318 meters).
- polyarticular — pertaining to or affecting many joints.
- postauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
- postcommunion — the part of a communion service that follows after the congregation has received communion.
- posttraumatic — occurring after physical or psychological trauma.
- 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.
- precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
- precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
- prejudicative — tending to prejudge
- 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 cutting — an article or picture from a newspaper about someone or something
- price cutting — the act or practice of cutting prices
- price support — the maintenance of the price of a commodity, product, etc., especially by means of a public subsidy or government purchase of surpluses.
- prince rupert — Prince, 1619–82, German Royalist general and admiral in the English Civil War (nephew of Charles I of England).
- prix goncourt — Goncourt (def 2).
- pro-communist — (initial capital letter) a member of the Communist Party or movement.
- producibility — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
- pronunciation — Rare. an act or instance of declaring publicly; pronouncement: It was but the latest pronunciation of the political double-standard uttered in the course of this scandal. Synonyms: declaration, assertion, statement; announcement, affirmation; proclamation, promulgation, dissemination.
- prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
- proteinaceous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- protoactinium — protactinium.
- pseudo-poetic — of or relating to a poet or poets.
- pseudoaquatic — not aquatic but indigenous to moist regions.
- public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
- public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
- public spirit — active interest in public welfare or the good of the community
- punctiliously — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.