13-letter words containing p, r, e, c, l
- cor pulmonale — pulmonary heart disease: a serious heart condition in which there is enlargement and failure of the right ventricle resulting from lung disease
- corpora lutea — corpus luteum
- corporate law — law that relates to corporations and to business activities in general
- corporealness — The state or quality of being corporeal.
- corpus luteum — a yellow glandular mass of tissue that forms in a Graafian follicle following release of an ovum. It secretes progesterone, a hormone necessary to maintain pregnancy
- cotemporality — The state or characteristic of existing or occurring during the same period of time.
- councilperson — a member of a city or local legislative council.
- counselorship — The function and rank or office of a counselor.
- counterplayer — a person who makes a counterplay
- countrypeople — countryfolk.
- court plaster — a plaster, composed of isinglass on silk, formerly used to cover superficial wounds
- crapulousness — The state or quality of being crapulous.
- creepy-crawly — You can refer to insects as creepy-crawlies when they give you a feeling of fear or disgust. This word is mainly used by children.
- cripple creek — a village in central Colorado: gold-mining centre since 1891, once the richest in the world
- crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
- crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
- crumple zones — parts of a motor vehicle, at the front and the rear, that are designed to crumple in a collision, thereby absorbing the impact
- crustal plate — a large block or tabular section of the lithosphere that reacts to tectonic forces as a unit and moves as such.
- cryptoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
- crystal pleat — one of a series of fine, permanently pressed pleats of varying widths, usually in a sheer fabric
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae
- cyclospermous — having the embryo curled around the central albumen
- cyproconazole — (organic compound) The conazole fungicide \u03b1-(4-chlorophenyl)-\u03b1-(1-cyclopropylethyl)-1H-1,2,4-triazole-1-ethanol.
- demographical — of or relating to demography, the science of vital and social statistics.
- deprecatingly — to express earnest disapproval of.
- deprecatorily — In a deprecatory manner.
- descriptively — having the quality of describing; characterized by description: a descriptive passage in an essay.
- diaphoretical — Alternative form of diaphoretic.
- disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
- dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
- electrographs — Plural form of electrograph.
- electrooptics — the technology that deals with the production, control, and detection of light by electrical devices
- electrophiles — Plural form of electrophile.
- electrophilic — (of a molecule or group) having a tendency to attract or acquire electrons.
- electrophones — Plural form of electrophone.
- electrophonic — Relating to electronic equipment to produce sound (this adjectival sense is not comparable).
- electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
- electroplated — Simple past tense and past participle of electroplate.
- electroplates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of electroplate.
- electroscopes — Plural form of electroscope.
- electrotyping — The act or process of making electrotypes.
- electrotypist — an electrotyper
- empiricalness — Quality of being empirical.
- encephalogram — An image, trace, or other record of the structure or electrical activity of the brain.
- epitrachelion — The liturgical vestment worn by priests and bishops of the Orthodox Church as the symbol of their priesthood, corresponding to the Western stole.
- epitrochoidal — Being or relating to an epitrochoid.
- eproctophilia — Sexual arousal from flatulence.
- euler-chelpin — Hans (Karl August) von. 1873–1964, Swedish biochemist, born in Germany: shared the Nobel prize for chemistry (1929) with Sir Arthur Harden for their work on enzymes: father of Ulf von Euler