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13-letter words containing p, o, t, e

  • bishop violet — a reddish purple.
  • bite your lip — If you bite your lip, you try very hard not to show the anger or distress that you are feeling.
  • blepharoplast — a cylindrical cytoplasmic body in protozoa
  • booby-trapped — (of a building, vehicle, etc) planted with a booby trap
  • boom operator — a person who operates a boom
  • border patrol — a government agency in charge of preventing terrorists, weapons, and illegal immigrants entering the country
  • bottle-opener — A bottle-opener is a metal device for removing caps or tops from bottles.
  • bounty jumper — in the U.S. Civil War, a man who accepted the cash bounty offered for enlisting and then deserted
  • boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
  • boycott apple — (legal)   Some time before 1989, Apple Computer, Inc. started a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, claiming they had breeched Apple's copyright on the look and feel of the Macintosh user interface. In December 1989, Xerox failed to sue Apple Computer, claiming that the software for Apple's Lisa computer and Macintosh Finder, both copyrighted in 1987, were derived from two Xerox programs: Smalltalk, developed in the mid-1970s and Star, copyrighted in 1981. Apple wanted to stop people from writing any program that worked even vaguely like a Macintosh. If such look and feel lawsuits succeed they could put an end to free software that could substitute for commercial software. In the weeks after the suit was filed, Usenet reverberated with condemnation for Apple. GNU supporters Richard Stallman, John Gilmore and Paul Rubin decided to take action against Apple. Apple's reputation as a force for progress came from having made better computers; but The League for Programming Freedom believed that Apple wanted to make all non-Apple computers worse. They therefore campaigned to discourage people from using Apple products or working for Apple or any other company threatening similar obstructionist tactics (e.g. Lotus and Xerox). Because of this boycott the Free Software Foundation for a long time didn't support Macintosh Unix in their software. In 1995, the LPF and the FSF decided to end the boycott.
  • brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
  • breast pocket — The breast pocket of a man's coat or jacket is a pocket, usually on the inside, next to his chest.
  • bromocriptine — a dopamine agonist drug which blocks the release of prolactin from the pituitary gland, used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
  • brownie point — If someone does something to score brownie points, they do it because they think they will be praised for it.
  • budget period — the time which a budget covers
  • butyrophenone — a drug used to treat psychiatric disorders
  • by reputation — If you know someone by reputation, you have never met them but you have heard of their reputation.
  • byte compiler — byte-code compiler
  • camping stove — a portable stove powered by butane gas canisters, designed to be used for cooking while camping
  • campylobacter — a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis
  • capitate bone — the largest and central bone of the carpus, articulating with the second, third, and fourth metacarpal bones.
  • cardiopathies — Plural form of cardiopathy.
  • carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
  • carrot-topped — having red hair
  • cartographers — Plural form of cartographer.
  • carton-pierre — papier-mâché decorated in imitation of wood, stone, or metal, and chiefly used for ornamental statuary or decorative motifs.
  • case in point — a specific, appropriate, or relevant instance or example
  • catastrophise — Alt form catastrophize.
  • catastrophize — (obsolete) To end a comedy.
  • caveat emptor — Caveat emptor means 'let the buyer beware', and is a warning to someone buying something that it is their responsibility to identify and accept any faults in it.
  • cecropia moth — a large North American saturniid moth, Hyalophora (or Samia) cecropia, with brightly coloured wings and feathery antennae
  • cephalization — (in the evolution of animals) development of a head by the concentration of feeding and sensory organs and nervous tissue at the anterior end
  • cephalometric — Relating to cephalometrics.
  • cephalothorax — the anterior part of many crustaceans and some other arthropods consisting of a united head and thorax
  • chaetophorous — bearing bristles; setigerous.
  • chapter house — A chapter house is the building or set of rooms in the grounds of a cathedral where the members of the clergy hold their meetings.
  • checkpointing — Present participle of checkpoint.
  • chemautotroph — an organism, such as a bacterium, that obtains its energy from inorganic reactions using simple compounds, such as ammonia or hydrogen sulphide
  • chemisorption — an adsorption process in which an adsorbate is held on the surface of an adsorbent by chemical bonds
  • chemoreceptor — a sensory receptor in a biological cell membrane to which an external molecule binds to generate a smell or taste sensation
  • chopped steak — ground, cooked beef, usually served as a main course.
  • choripetalous — polypetalous
  • chromatophile — Also, chromophilic, chromophilous [kroh-mof-uh-luh s] /kroʊˈmɒf ə ləs/ (Show IPA), chromatophilic, chromatophilous. staining readily.
  • chromatophore — a cell in the skin of frogs, chameleons, etc, in which pigment is concentrated or dispersed, causing the animal to change colour
  • chromoprotein — any of a group of conjugated proteins, such as haemoglobin, in which the protein is joined to a coloured compound, such as a metal-containing porphyrin
  • chromotherapy — the use of colour and light as a restorative therapy and to promote mental and physical well-being
  • chronotherapy — an endeavour to readjust the body clock to enable a person to waken earlier by going to sleep later and later every day until the required waking hour is achieved
  • chrysophilite — a person who loves gold
  • chrysotherapy — gold therapy.
  • cinematograph — a combined camera, printer, and projector
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