13-letter words containing p, o, n, c
- john q public — the average or typical U.S. citizen: an entertainment aimed at Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public.
- keep in touch — stay in contact
- kleptomaniacs — Plural form of kleptomaniac.
- knobcone pine — a pine, Pinus attenuata, of the Pacific coast of the U.S., bearing cones with knoblike scales.
- knocking copy — advertising or publicity material designed to denigrate a competing product
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
- laryngoscopic — Of or pertaining to laryngoscopy.
- lithontriptic — of or relating to destroying bladder or kidney stones
- locking piece — (in a striking train) a hooked part, rising and falling on a locking plate and arresting the rotation of the plate after the proper number of strokes.
- locking plate — a narrow wheel geared to a striking train or other mechanism and having a notched rim engaging with another mechanism permitting it to rotate through a specific arc.
- lycanthropous — Lycanthropic.
- macropinacoid — a crystalline pinacoid which runs parallel to the longer horizontal axis
- macroplankton — planktonic organisms of about 1 mm in length.
- magnetic pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
- magnetooptics — the branch of physics that deals with magnetooptic phenomena.
- medicine shop — (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines
- melbourne cup — an annual horse race run in Melbourne, since 1861
- mesencephalon — Anatomy. the midbrain.
- metencephalon — the anterior section of the hindbrain, comprising the cerebellum and pons.
- mexican poppy — any tropical American poppy of the genus Argemone, especially A. mexicana (Mexican poppy) having prickly pods and leaves and yellow or white, poppylike flowers.
- microchipping — Present participle of microchip.
- micropayments — Plural form of micropayment.
- microperation — (processor) An elementary operation performed on data stored in registers or in memory. Microperations are classified as transfer, arithmetic, logic, or shift/rotate.
- microplankton — plankton visible as individual organisms only with the aid of a microscope, which excludes most animal plankton.
- micropuncture — the puncture of a cell, renal tubule, etc., by a laser beam or micropipette
- minicomponent — a hi-fi component considerably smaller than a standard-size component and larger than a microcomponent.
- minicomputers — a computer with processing and storage capabilities smaller than those of a mainframe but larger than those of a microcomputer.
- miscomprehend — Misunderstand.
- misconception — an erroneous conception; mistaken notion.
- misperception — to understand or perceive incorrectly; misunderstand.
- mispronounced — Said wrongly.
- mispronounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mispronounce.
- mission creep — the tendency for a task, esp a military operation, to become unintentionally wider in scope than its initial objectives
- mock pendulum — a false pendulum bob attached to the balances of certain timepieces and visible through a slot in the dial or case.
- monomorphemic — containing only one morpheme, as the words wait and gorilla.
- monopsonistic — the market condition that exists when there is one buyer.
- monostrophics — monostrophic verses
- morphogenetic — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
- nanocomposite — Denoting a composite material that has a grain size measured in nanometers.
- nanoparticles — Plural form of nanoparticle.
- narcohypnosis — the use of drugs to induce hypnosis
- neck and crop — completely; entirely
- necrophiliacs — Plural form of necrophiliac.
- neocapitalism — a politico-economic theory combining elements of capitalism and socialism
- neocapitalist — a person who advocates neocapitalism
- neoencephalon — neencephalon.
- neoplasticism — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- nephelometric — Bacteriology. an apparatus containing a series of barium chloride standards used to determine the number of bacteria in a suspension.
- nephrectomies — Plural form of nephrectomy.