13-letter words containing p, l, c, o, r, n
- personalistic — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
- phallocentric — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- philanthropic — of, pertaining to, engaged in, or characterized by philanthropy; benevolent: a philanthropic foundation.
- photoelectron — an electron emitted from a system by the photoelectric effect.
- pick-and-roll — an offensive maneuver in which a player interposes himself or herself between a teammate with the ball and a defender, then cuts quickly toward the basket for a pass from the same teammate.
- pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
- platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
- pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- polar nucleus — Botany. either of two female haploid nuclei, in the embryo sac of flowers, that fuse to produce a diploid nucleus, which combines with a male nucleus to form the endosperm.
- polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
- polycistronic — of or relating to the transcription of two or more adjacent cistrons into a single messenger RNA molecule.
- porcelaineous — like porcelain
- porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
- port colborne — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- postconciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
- postcranially — affecting the postcranium
- pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
- 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.
- principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
- privy council — a board or select body of personal advisers, as of a sovereign.
- procreational — having the potential to procreate
- prolification — the production of offspring
- pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
- provinciality — provincial character.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- provocational — the act of provoking.
- psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- reapplication — an act or the process of reapplying a substance
- recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
- reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- republication — publication anew.
- rhizocephalan — belonging to the Rhizocephala, a group of degenerate hermaphrodite crustaceans that are parasitic chiefly on crabs.
- scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
- semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
- slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
- supercolumnar — existing above a column or columns: a supercolumnar feature.
- tracking poll — a type of poll repeated periodically with the same group of people to check and measure changes of opinion or knowledge.
- tropical zone — Torrid Zone
- tropocollagen — the molecular unit which forms collagen, consisting of three polypeptide chains
- unicorn plant — a North American plant, Proboscidea (Martynia) louisianica, having creamy-white to red flowers blotched with purple, and a woody capsule with a long, curved beak.
- unproblematic — not problematic, not causing difficulties or confusion; uncomplicated
- unprotectable — to defend or guard from attack, invasion, loss, annoyance, insult, etc.; cover or shield from injury or danger.