10-letter words containing a, n, c, y
- paronychia — inflammation of the folds of skin bordering a nail of a finger or toe, usually characterized by infection and pus formation; felon.
- patricliny — patrocliny.
- patrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- patronymic — (of family names) derived from the name of a father or ancestor, especially by the addition of a suffix or prefix indicating descent.
- penetrancy — the quality of being penetrant
- pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
- permanency — permanence.
- phonically — of or relating to speech sounds.
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- piccaninny — pickaninny.
- pickaninny — a term used to refer to a black child.
- plant city — a city in W Florida.
- play, inc. — (company) The company which designed and markets Snappy Video Snapshot.
- play-lunch — a schoolchild's mid-morning snack
- playacting — to engage in make-believe.
- polyactine — the spicule of a polyactinal sponge
- polyandric — polyandrous.
- polyaxonic — relating to a polyaxon
- polyclonal — Biology. pertaining to cells or cell products derived from several lines of clones.
- ponca city — a city in N Oklahoma.
- pornocracy — government or domination of government by whores
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- prevenancy — courtesy
- punctually — strictly observant of an appointed or regular time; not late; prompt.
- purveyance — the act of purveying.
- pyracantha — firethorn.
- pyrenocarp — Mycology. a perithecium.
- pyromaniac — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- pyromantic — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- rabdomancy — Alt form rhabdomancy.
- redundancy — the state of being redundant.
- regeneracy — a regenerate state.
- reluctancy — unwillingness; disinclination: reluctance to speak in public.
- repugnancy — the state of being repugnant.
- retardancy — any substance capable of reducing the speed of a given reaction.
- rock candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- rock-candy — sugar in large, hard, cohering crystals.
- samana cay — a small, uninhabited island in the central Bahamas: now believed to be first land in the New World seen by Christopher Columbus 1492. 9 miles (14 km) long.
- sanctimony — pretended, affected, or hypocritical religious devotion, righteousness, etc.
- sand yacht — land yacht.
- sandy city — a town in central Utah.
- scarifying — critical
- scenically — of or relating to natural scenery.
- screenplay — a motion-picture or television scenario.
- scyphozoan — any coelenterate of the class Scyphozoa, comprising the true marine jellyfishes.
- sea canary — beluga (def 2).
- shylockian — a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
- skyjacking — an act or instance of hijacking an aircraft.
- snobocracy — a social class of snobs
- spodomancy — divination by studying ashes