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13-letter words containing p, u, l, e, c

  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • electrophorus — A device for repeatedly generating static electricity by induction.
  • encapsulating — Present participle of encapsulate.
  • encapsulation — The act of enclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to enclose it in a capsule.
  • escape clause — clause that releases sb from a contract
  • 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
  • euphemistical — Archaic form of euphemistic.
  • excess supply — a situation in which the market supply of a commodity is greater than the market demand for it, thus causing its market price to fall
  • extracapsular — (anatomy) Situated outside a capsule, especially outside the capsular ligament of a joint.
  • flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
  • futtock plate — a metal plate placed perpendicular to the top of a ship's lower mast to hold the futtock shrouds.
  • guilt complex — If you say that someone has a guilt complex about something, you mean that they feel very guilty about it, in a way that you consider is exaggerated, unreasonable, or unnecessary.
  • humped cattle — any of several breeds of domestic cattle developed from the Indian species Bos indicus and characterized by a hump of fat and muscle over the shoulders.
  • hydrocephalus — an accumulation of serous fluid within the cranium, especially in infancy, due to obstruction of the movement of cerebrospinal fluid, often causing great enlargement of the head; water on the brain.
  • hypervascular — pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, as blood, lymph, or sap.
  • impactfulness — The quality of being impactful.
  • impecuniously — In an impecunious manner.
  • imputrescible — not liable to decomposition or putrefaction; incorruptible: a tanning process to make skins imputrescible.
  • incorruptable — Misspelling of incorruptible.
  • incorruptible — not corruptible: incorruptible integrity.
  • insusceptible — not susceptible; incapable of being influenced or affected (usually followed by of or to): insusceptible of flattery; insusceptible to infection.
  • interscapular — between the scapulae or shoulder blades.
  • jumper cables — jump leads for starting a vehicle
  • komi republic — a constituent republic of NW Russia: annexed by the princes of Moscow in the 14th century. Capital: Syktyvkar. Pop: 1 019 000 (2002). Area: 415 900 sq km (160 540 sq miles)
  • lace-up shoes — shoes which are fastened with laces
  • leprechaunish — somewhat similar to a leprechaun
  • leptocephalus — a colorless, transparent, flattened larva, especially of certain eels and ocean fishes.
  • leptokurtotic — (statistics) Leptokurtic.
  • leucodepleted — of or denoting blood from which the white cells have been removed
  • line spectrum — an electromagnetic spectrum consisting of discrete lines, usually characteristic of excited atoms or molecules.
  • liposculpture — the surgical removal of subcutaneous fat and its transplant to another part of the body, as to fill out facial contours.
  • loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
  • lunar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
  • macrocephalus — Alternative spelling of macrocephalous.
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