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13-letter words containing lat

  • overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • overstimulate — to stimulate too much
  • pacific plate — Geology. one of the major tectonic divisions of the earth's crust, comprising four sea-floor basins; separated from the Nazca, Cocos, and North and South American plates by the East Pacific Rise and San Andreas fault and bounded in the western Pacific Ocean by a series of major ocean deeps, including the Kuril, Japan, Mariana, Kermadec, and Tonga trenches.
  • pandiculation — the act of stretching oneself.
  • papaprelatist — a supporter of papal prelates
  • pedicellation — having a pedicel or pedicels.
  • perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
  • phosphorylate — to introduce the phosphoryl group into (an organic compound).
  • photogelatine — relating to photographic processes in which gelatine is used in receiving or transferring prints
  • platform game — a type of computer game that is played by moving a figure on the screen through a series of obstacles and problems
  • platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
  • platinic acid — a white, crystalline, water-insoluble powder, H 2 PtO 3 , used chiefly in platinization.
  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • platiniridium — a natural alloy composed chiefly of platinum and iridium.
  • platinocyanic — of or derived from platinocyanic acid.
  • platinum disc — (in Britain) an album certified to have sold 300 000 copies or a single certified to have sold 600 000 copies
  • platitudinize — to utter platitudes.
  • platitudinous — characterized by or given to platitudes.
  • 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.
  • platycephalic — having a head whose cranial vault is broad or flat.
  • platyhelminth — any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes; a flatworm.
  • platykurtosis — the state of being platykurtic.
  • poor relation — If you describe one thing as a poor relation of another, you mean that it is similar to or part of the other thing, but is considered to be inferior to it.
  • postisolation — following a period of isolation
  • postulational — to ask, demand, or claim.
  • pre-calculate — to determine or ascertain by mathematical methods; compute: to calculate the velocity of light.
  • precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
  • preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • quadrilateral — having four sides.
  • quarter plate — a photographic plate measuring 31⁄4 × 41⁄4 inches (8.3 × 10.8 cm)
  • railroad flat — an apartment whose series of narrow rooms forms a more or less straight line.
  • raising plate — wall plate (def 1).
  • re-articulate — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
  • re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
  • re-regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
  • reaccumulated — to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees; heap up: to accumulate wealth.
  • recalculation — recount, act of computing again
  • recirculation — an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit, or flowing.
  • recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
  • refocillation — the restoring of strength by refreshment or revivement
  • reformulation — to formulate again.
  • regulator pin — either of two pins on the regulators of certain timepieces, one on each side of the hairspring, that can be moved to adjust the rate of the timepiece.
  • reinoculation — a further inoculation of the same organism as the first inoculation
  • relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
  • rematriculate — to enroll in a college or university as a candidate for a degree.
  • restimulation — the act or process of stimulating again; reactivation
  • retranslation — the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.
  • revelationist — a person who believes in divine revelation.
  • reverse plate — a plate for printing a reverse.
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