13-letter words containing p, o, l, y, c
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- provinciality — provincial character.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyst — a person trained to practice psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- psychobiology — the use of biological methods to study normal and abnormal emotional and cognitive processes, as the anatomical basis of memory or neurochemical abnormalities in schizophrenia.
- psychological — of or relating to psychology.
- psychotically — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
- psychrophilic — (esp of bacteria) showing optimum growth at low temperatures
- public policy — the fundamental policy on which laws rest, especially policy not yet enunciated in specific rules.
- punctiliously — extremely attentive to punctilios; strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
- pyrocellulose — cordite.
- pyrolytically — in a pyrolytic manner
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- reciprocality — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- record player — phonograph.
- reproachfully — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- scaphocephaly — premature closure of the sagittal suture resulting in a deformed skull having an elongated, keellike shape.
- sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
- shell company — A shell company is a company that another company takes over in order to use its name to gain an advantage.
- soccer player — A soccer player is a person who plays soccer, especially as a profession.
- sophistically — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
- space biology — exobiology.
- spasmodically — given to or characterized by bursts of excitement.
- splanchnology — the visceral system
- stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- subtropically — in the subtropics
- sunspot cycle — the cycle, averaging in duration slightly more than 11 years, in which the frequency of sunspots varies from a maximum to a minimum and back to a maximum again.
- sympatholytic — opposing the effects of stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system.
- thoracoplasty — the operation removing selected portions of the ribs to collapse part of the underlying lung or an abnormal pleural space, usually in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- to play cupid — If you say that someone is playing cupid, you mean that they are trying to bring two people together to start a romantic relationship.
- to play havoc — If one thing plays havoc with another or wreaks havoc on it, it prevents it from continuing or functioning as normal, or damages it.
- topologically — the study of those properties of geometric forms that remain invariant under certain transformations, as bending or stretching.
- tropical year — year (def 4b).
- type locality — Biology. the locality in which a type specimen was collected.
- typographical — of or relating to typography.
- typologically — the doctrine or study of types or prefigurative symbols, especially in scriptural literature.
- valued policy — a policy in which the company and the policyholder agree to the amount to be paid in the event of total loss of property, regardless of the value of the property.
- xylographical — Xylographic.
- yol computers — (company) A company in London, UK that sells computer and network systems, established in 2001.
- zoopsychology — the psychology of animals