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

  • precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • prejudicially — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
  • 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
  • pseudo-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
  • pseudoclassic — falsely or spuriously classic.
  • public access — the availability of noncommercial television and radio broadcasting facilities to community groups or members of the public for programs of general interest to the community, especially as a condition of cable television franchises.
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
  • public office — position in government
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
  • purkinje cell — a large, densely branching neuron in the cerebellar cortex of the brain.
  • pyrocellulose — cordite.
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • quadruplicate — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
  • quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
  • quintuplicate — a group, series, or set of five copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten matter.
  • 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.
  • reduplicative — tending to reduplicate.
  • reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • republicanize — to make republican.
  • republication — publication anew.
  • sacral plexus — a nerve network originating from the nerves of the sacral spine and innervating large areas of the lower trunk and legs, especially via the sciatic nerves.
  • sculpturesque — suggesting sculpture: the sculpturesque beauty of her face.
  • self-occupied — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
  • 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.
  • sesquiplicate — relating to or involving the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of given terms; i.e. the sesquiplicate ratio of given terms is the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of those terms
  • 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
  • space capsule — Aerospace. capsule (def 5).
  • space shuttle — any of several U.S. space vehicles consisting of a reusable manned orbiter that touches down on a landing strip after an orbital mission, two reusable solid rocket boosters that drop off after initial ascent, and an expendable external tank containing liquid propellants.
  • spectacularly — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
  • speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
  • speech bubble — cartoon: spoken text in a balloon
  • speechfulness — the state of being full of speech or expression
  • spruce beetle — a beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis, that feeds on and nests in spruce, pine, and other evergreen trees, sometimes causing extensive damage.
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • square splice — a scarf joint between two pieces, having the form of a half-lap joint with a thicker and a thinner section for each piece, the thicker one being at the end: used to resist tension.
  • stirpiculture — the production of special stocks or strains by careful breeding.
  • subdiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
  • subspecialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
  • subspeciality — a particular area of expertise within a specialism
  • subspecialize — to specialize in a particular area of expertise within a specialism
  • subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
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