13-letter words containing p, u, l, c
- clock puncher — a worker with a routine job in a factory or office, as one who punches a time clock at the beginning and end of a work shift.
- cloud physics — the science of the physical properties and processes of clouds.
- cluster point — a point of a net having the property that the net is frequently in each neighborhood of the point.
- colleagueship — workplace companionship
- compendiously — of or like a compendium; containing the substance of a subject, often an exclusive subject, in a brief form; concise: a compendious history of the world.
- compound leaf — a leaf consisting of two or more leaflets borne on the same leafstalk
- compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
- compulsionist — a believer in compulsion, esp a believer in obligatory military service
- computability — (computing theory) The property of being computable by purely mechanical means.
- computational — Computational means using computers.
- computer file — file
- concept album — an album that has a unifying theme or that tells a single story
- conceptualise — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- conceptualism — the philosophical theory that the application of general words to a variety of objects reflects the existence of some mental entity through which the application is mediated and which constitutes the meaning of the term
- conceptualist — any of several doctrines existing as a compromise between realism and nominalism and regarding universals as concepts. Compare nominalism, realism (def 5).
- conceptuality — a conceptualization
- conceptualize — If you conceptualize something, you form an idea of it in your mind.
- concupiscible — characterized or driven by sexual desire
- conspicuously — easily seen or noticed; readily visible or observable: a conspicuous error.
- consumptively — In a consumptive manner.
- control group — any group used as a control in a statistical experiment, esp a group of patients who receive either a placebo or a standard drug during an investigation of the effects of another drug on other patients
- 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
- 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
- cottage tulip — a late-flowering type of tulip, usually having pointed or elongated flowers.
- 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.
- county police — (in the US) the police of a particular county
- court plaster — a plaster, composed of isinglass on silk, formerly used to cover superficial wounds
- crapulousness — The state or quality of being crapulous.
- 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.
- culpabilities — guilt or blame that is deserved; blameworthiness.
- cup of elijah — Elijah's cup.
- cupboard love — a show of love inspired only by some selfish or greedy motive
- cupping glass — a glass vessel from which air can be removed by suction or heat to create a partial vacuum: formerly used in drawing blood to the surface of the skin for slow bloodletting
- cushion plant — a type of low-growing plant having many closely spaced short upright shoots, typical of alpine and arctic habitats
- custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae
- cyclospermous — having the embryo curled around the central albumen
- deduplication — (computing) The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
- diplobacillus — a double bacillus; two bacilli linked end to end.
- diplock court — in Northern Ireland, a court of law designed to try cases linked with terrorism. In order to prevent the intimidation of jurors, the court consists of a single judge and no jury
- disrespectful — characterized by, having, or showing disrespect; lacking courtesy or esteem: a disrespectful remark about teachers.
- dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
- duplicability — The quality of being duplicable.
- duplicitously — In a duplicitous, two-faced manner.
- electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
- encapsulating — Present participle of encapsulate.