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13-letter words containing p, l, o, c

  • plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • plano-concave — pertaining to or noting a lens that is plane on one side and concave on the other.
  • plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
  • plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
  • platinocyanic — of or derived from platinocyanic acid.
  • platonic love — Platonism. love of the Idea of beauty, seen as terminating an evolution from the desire for an individual and the love of physical beauty to the love and contemplation of spiritual or ideal beauty.
  • platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
  • play politics — the science or art of political government.
  • plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
  • plectopterous — of or relating to the order Plectoptera, containing mayflies
  • pleurocarpous — (of certain mosses) bearing the fructifications along the main stem or lateral branches.
  • plum curculio — See under curculio.
  • plymouth rock — a rock at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on which the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.
  • pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
  • pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
  • pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • pointillistic — pertaining to or characteristic of pointillism or pointillists.
  • 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.
  • polemological — the analysis of human conflict and war, particularly international war.
  • 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
  • police office — a geographical administrative division within an area patrolled by a police force
  • police record — an official file, held by the police, containing details of any criminal offences committed by an individual
  • policy-making — Policy-making is the making of policies.
  • polio vaccine — a vaccine administered to induce specific active immunity to poliomyelitis.
  • polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
  • politicalized — to cause to be political; color with politics.
  • pollice verso — with thumbs turned downward: the sign made by spectators calling for the death of a defeated gladiator in the ancient Roman circus.
  • pollicitation — an offer or promise not yet accepted by the person to whom it was made.
  • polling place — a place at or in which votes in an election are cast.
  • polyarticular — pertaining to or affecting many joints.
  • polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
  • polychotomous — divided into multiple parts
  • polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
  • polycistronic — of or relating to the transcription of two or more adjacent cistrons into a single messenger RNA molecule.
  • polycotyledon — a plant having more than two cotyledons, as certain gymnosperms.
  • 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
  • polygalaceous — any plant of the genus Polygala, comprising the milkworts.
  • 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).
  • polytechnical — relating to a technical school
  • pomme blanche — breadroot.
  • ponce de leon — Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), c1460–1521, Spanish explorer.
  • pontificality — a priestly role or office
  • popular music — music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • port colborne — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • post-colonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
  • postauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
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