13-letter words containing t, o, n, e, c, l
- phallocentric — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
- photoelectron — an electron emitted from a system by the photoelectric effect.
- phyllogenetic — of or relating to the development of leaves.
- pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- platonic love — Platonism. love of the Idea of beauty, seen as terminating an evolution from the desire for an individual and the love of physical beauty to the love and contemplation of spiritual or ideal beauty.
- platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
- plebification — the act of making popular or vulgar
- pneumatolytic — resulting from pneumatolysis
- pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- police action — a relatively localized military action undertaken by regular armed forces, without a formal declaration of war, against guerrillas, insurgents, or other forces held to be violating international peace and order.
- polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
- polycotyledon — a plant having more than two cotyledons, as certain gymnosperms.
- polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
- polytechnical — relating to a technical school
- port colborne — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- price control — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- procreational — having the potential to procreate
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- re-allocation — the act of allocating; apportionment.
- re-collection — the act of re-collecting or the state of being re-collected.
- re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
- reapplication — an act or the process of reapplying a substance
- recalculation — recount, act of computing again
- recalibration — the act or process of recalibrating something
- recirculation — an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit, or flowing.
- recognitional — an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
- recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
- reconcilement — to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
- reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.
- reflex-action — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- refocillation — the restoring of strength by refreshment or revivement
- regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- reinoculation — a further inoculation of the same organism as the first inoculation
- relubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- republication — publication anew.
- retail anchor — A retail anchor is a popular store whose name will attract customers to a shopping mall.
- retroflection — a bending backward.
- role conflict — emotional conflict arising when competing demands are made on an individual in the fulfillment of his or her multiple social roles.
- romantic lead — a person who plays the main character in a romantic film or play
- romantic love — love characterized by romance and involving sexual attraction
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.