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13-letter words containing p, o, c

  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • pornification — the perceived pervasion of society in general or an aspect of it by the imagery, language, and attitudes associated with pornography
  • port colborne — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
  • port harcourt — a seaport in S Nigeria.
  • porte-cochere — a covered carriage entrance leading into a courtyard.
  • post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
  • post-actinide — transactinide
  • post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
  • post-colonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
  • post-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
  • post-consumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
  • post-contract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
  • post-socratic — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
  • postage costs — the cost of having mail delivered
  • postauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
  • postcanonical — written at a later date than the books belonging to a canon, especially the Bible.
  • postclassical — of or relating to a time after the classical period, especially in art, culture, or literature.
  • postcommunion — the part of a communion service that follows after the congregation has received communion.
  • postconciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
  • postcranially — affecting the postcranium
  • postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
  • postemergence — occurring or applied after emergence of a plant from the soil and before full growth: postemergence frost.
  • postemergency — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after an emergency
  • postepileptic — after an epileptic seizure
  • postholocaust — following a holocaust
  • postinfection — of, relating to or occurring in the period after infection
  • postinjection — the act of injecting.
  • postpubescent — a young person in his or her early teens.
  • postrecession — occurring or existing in the period after a recession
  • postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
  • posttraumatic — occurring after physical or psychological trauma.
  • postvasectomy — of or occurring in the period after a vasectomy
  • potamological — of or relating to potamology
  • potomac fever — the determination or fervor to share in the power and prestige of the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., especially by being appointed or elected to a government position.
  • 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.
  • potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
  • powder charge — propellant (def 2).
  • praecipitatio — Meteorology. precipitation from a cloud that reaches the surface of the earth (distinguished from virga).
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
  • praxiological — the study of human conduct.
  • pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • pre-committed — to give in trust or charge; consign.
  • pre-contrived — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
  • pre-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
  • pre-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • pre-disclosed — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
  • 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-encounter — to come upon or meet with, especially unexpectedly: to encounter a new situation.
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