10-letter words containing a, c, e, y
- newsagency — a business organization that gathers news for transmittal to its subscribers. Compare press association.
- nose candy — cocaine.
- noticeably — attracting notice or attention; capable of being noticed: a noticeable lack of interest.
- ocean city — a town in SE New Jersey.
- oceanicity — the degree to which the climate of a place is influenced by the sea.
- oceanology — the practical application of oceanography.
- octogenary — (obsolete) Of eighty years of age.
- open-carry — the practice of publicly carrying a gun or other weapon that is fully or partially visible.
- osteomancy — A kind of divination by means of bones.
- overcanopy — to cover like a canopy
- oxycephaly — a malformation in which the head is somewhat pointed, caused by premature closure of the skull sutures.
- oyster cap — an edible, brownish-gray to white mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, that grows in clusters on fallen trees and their stumps.
- pachymeter — an instrument for measuring thickness
- paracyesis — ectopic pregnancy.
- parenchyma — Botany. the fundamental tissue of plants, composed of thin-walled cells able to divide.
- patty-cake — pat-a-cake.
- pay cheque — Your pay cheque is a piece of paper that your employer gives you as your wages or salary, and which you can then cash at a bank. You can also use pay cheque as a way of referring to your wages or salary.
- pay packet — Your pay packet is the envelope containing your wages, which your employer gives you at the end of every week.
- pdsa cycle — Plan, Do, See, Approve (from Japan).
- peacefully — characterized by peace; free from war, strife, commotion, violence, or disorder: a peaceful reign; a peaceful demonstration.
- peacockery — proud or ostentatious display
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- peculiarly — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.
- pelycosaur — any of a group of large primitive reptiles belonging to the extinct order Pelycosauria, abundant in North America and Europe during the Permian Period, often having a tall spinal sail.
- penetrancy — the quality of being penetrant
- pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
- perl-byacc — A modified version of byacc that generates a parser in Perl code, by Rick Ohnemus <[email protected]>. It has a "-p" switch so multiple parsers can be used in one program (C or Perl). Version 1.8.2 should work on most Unix systems. It also works with SAS/C 6.x on Amiga.
- permanency — permanence.
- peroxyacid — an acid derived from hydrogen peroxide and containing the –O–O– group, as peroxysulfuric acid, H 2 S 2 O 8 .
- petty cash — funds kept for minor expenses
- phylactery — Judaism. either of two small, black, leather cubes containing a piece of parchment inscribed with verses 4–9 of Deut. 6, 13–21 of Deut. 11, and 1–16 of Ex. 13: one is attached with straps to the left arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish men.
- plasmacyte — Anatomy. an antibody-secreting cell, derived from B cells, that plays a major role in antibody-mediated immunity.
- poetically — possessing the qualities or charm of poetry: poetic descriptions of nature.
- polyactine — the spicule of a polyactinal sponge
- polychaete — any annelid of the class Polychaeta, having unsegmented swimming appendages with many setae or bristles.
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- pomace fly — vinegar fly.
- prevenancy — courtesy
- procaryote — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- purveyance — the act of purveying.
- pyrenocarp — Mycology. a perithecium.
- reactively — tending to react.
- reactivity — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- reclassify — to classify anew.
- recreatory — refreshment by means of some pastime, agreeable exercise, or the like.
- recyclable — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
- redundancy — the state of being redundant.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- regeneracy — a regenerate state.
- relay race — a race between two or more teams of contestants, each contestant being relieved by a teammate after running part of the distance.