10-letter words containing a, p, i, c, e
- nightscape — a scene viewed at night, especially as represented in art.
- nonspecial — of a distinct or particular kind or character: a special kind of key.
- occupative — relating to work or profession
- occupiable — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- of a piece — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- opalescing — Present participle of opalesce.
- open chain — a series of atoms linked in a chain not joined together at its ends, and so represented in its structural formula.
- pacemaking — the act of setting a pace for race competitors
- pacificate — to pacify.
- paclitaxel — a drug derived from the yew tree and used to treat cancer
- paedeutics — the study of teaching
- page chair — a chair of the 18th century having deep wings continued to form an arch over the seat.
- palaeozoic — of, denoting, or relating to an era of geological time that began 600 million years ago with the Cambrian period and lasted about 375 million years until the end of the Permian period
- palearctic — Zoogeography. belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising Europe, Africa north of the tropic of Cancer, the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas.
- palimscope — a hand instrument that produces concentrated ultraviolet light for reading palimpsests and other research materials.
- palm civet — any of various small to medium-sized, chiefly arboreal cats of the civet family, of southeastern Asia, the East Indies, etc., with a spotted or striped coat and a long curled tail.
- pancreatic — of or affecting the pancreas
- pancreatin — Biochemistry. a substance containing the pancreatic enzymes, trypsin, amylase, and lipase.
- pandectist — a German law student who followed the Pandects of Justinian
- pandemonic — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
- paniculate — arranged in panicles.
- panspermic — relating to panspermia
- pantheonic — a domed circular temple at Rome, erected a.d. 120–124 by Hadrian, used as a church since a.d.
- paper clip — small clasp that holds papers together
- paper-clip — to fasten together with one or more paper clips: Paper-clip these letters and file them.
- paracyesis — ectopic pregnancy.
- paraenetic — of or relating to moral and ethical instruction or paraenesis
- paramecium — any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove.
- parametric — Mathematics. a constant or variable term in a function that determines the specific form of the function but not its general nature, as a in f (x) = ax, where a determines only the slope of the line described by f (x). one of the independent variables in a set of parametric equations.
- paraplegic — paralysis of both lower limbs due to spinal disease or injury.
- parcelwise — bit by bit
- parischane — a parish
- paroecious — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- participle — an adjective or complement to certain auxiliaries that is regularly derived from the verb in many languages and refers to participation in the action or state of the verb; a verbal form used as an adjective. It does not specify person or number in English, but may have a subject or object, show tense, etc., as burning, in a burning candle, or devoted in his devoted friend.
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- patchiness — characterized by or made up of patches.
- pathetical — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pathogenic — Pathology. capable of producing disease: pathogenic bacteria.
- patna rice — a variety of long-grain rice, used for savoury dishes
- patriciate — the patrician class.
- pawnticket — a ticket or receipt for a pawned item
- peace pipe — calumet.
- peace sign — a sign representing “peace,” made by extending the forefinger and middle finger upward in a V -shape with the palm turned outward.
- peacherino — peach1 (def 4).
- peacocking — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- peacockish — the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- peccadillo — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
- pectoralis — either of two muscles on each side of the upper and anterior part of the thorax, the action of the larger (pectoralis major) assisting in drawing the shoulder forward and rotating the arm inward, and the action of the smaller (pectoralis minor) assisting in drawing the shoulder downward and forward.
- peculiarly — strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings.