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

  • melbourne cup — an annual horse race run in Melbourne, since 1861
  • microcapsules — Plural form of microcapsule.
  • microcephalus — An abnormally small head.
  • microphyllous — having microphylls
  • military coup — a coup organized and carried out by members of the armed forces
  • milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
  • multi-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
  • musculospiral — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; applied especially to a large nerve of the arm.
  • neuroatypical — Having an atypical neurological configuration.
  • noncompulsory — Not compulsory.
  • notary public — a public officer or other person authorized to authenticate contracts, acknowledge deeds, take affidavits, protest bills of exchange, take depositions, etc.
  • nuclear power — power derived from nuclear energy.
  • nucleoprotein — any of the class of conjugated proteins occurring in cells and consisting of a protein combined with a nucleic acid, essential for cell division and reproduction.
  • overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • palaeocurrent — an ancient current, esp of water, evidence of which has been preserved in sedimentary rocks as fossilized ripple marks, etc
  • partly cloudy — sky: not constantly clear
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • polyarticular — pertaining to or affecting many joints.
  • popular music — music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • postauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
  • precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • privy council — a board or select body of personal advisers, as of a sovereign.
  • producibility — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
  • promiscuously — characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis.
  • pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
  • prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
  • pseudo-colour — an artificial colour
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • pyrocellulose — cordite.
  • red corpuscle — a red blood cell.
  • redcloud peak — a mountain in SW Colorado, in the San Juan Mountains, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,034 feet (4278 meters).
  • reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • republication — publication anew.
  • self-procured — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
  • self-produced — produced by oneself or itself.
  • slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
  • somar dumpacl — (tool)   A utilty which provides a concise report of Windows NT file system permissions, to help find holes in system security.
  • subtropically — in the subtropics
  • supercollider — a very large colliding-beam machine in which superconducting magnets create millions of megavolts of energy.
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