10-letter words containing a, p, r, i, c
- proctalgia — neural pain in the rectum or anus
- profascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- prognathic — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prolicidal — characteristic of prolicide
- prosaicism — prosaic character or style.
- provincial — belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local: the provincial newspaper.
- psychiatry — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
- pubic hair — hair growing in genital area
- public bar — (in a tavern or pub) the common section of a bar or barroom, not as exclusive, as quiet, or as comfortably furnished as the saloon section.
- punic wars — three wars (264–241 bc, 218–201 bc, and 149–146 bc), in which Rome crushed Carthaginian power, destroying Carthage itself
- purchasing — buying
- pyromaniac — a compulsion to set things on fire.
- pyromantic — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- quadriceps — a large muscle in front of the thigh, the action of which extends the leg or bends the hip joint.
- radioscope — an instrument, such as a fluoroscope, capable of detecting radiant energy
- radioscopy — the examination of objects opaque to light by means of another form of radiation, usually x-rays.
- rapid city — a city in SW South Dakota.
- reciprocal — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
- redispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- replicable — capable of replication: The scientific experiment must be replicable in all details to be considered valid.
- replicator — Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
- republican — of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- rice paddy — a field planted with rice
- rice paper — a thin paper made from the straw of rice, as in China.
- rifampicin — a drug used in the treatment of tuberculosis, meningitis, and leprosy
- riverscape — a view, painting, etc., of a river and the land surrounding or adjacent to it.
- roach clip — a small tweezerlike clip for holding the butt of a marijuana cigarette.
- sale price — discounted cost
- saprogenic — producing putrefaction or decay, as certain bacteria.
- sarcopenia — reduction in muscle tissue as a result of ageing
- sarcophagi — a stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
- sarcophile — a flesh-eating animal, especially the Tasmanian devil.
- scampering — to run or go hastily or quickly.
- schizocarp — a dry, dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more one-seeded carpels.
- scorpaenid — belonging or pertaining to the Scorpaenidae, a family of marine fishes with spiny fins, including the rockfishes, scorpionfishes, and lionfishes.
- scrap iron — old iron to be remelted or reworked.
- scriptoria — a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.
- scriptural — (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or in accordance with sacred writings, especially the Scriptures.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- shrinkpack — flexible plastic used for shrink-wrapping goods
- simple arc — a curve that does not cross itself and has no points missing; a curve that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the closed interval from 0 to 1.
- spark coil — a coil of many turns of insulated wire on an iron core, used for producing sparks.
- spartacist — a member of a group of German radical socialists formed in 1916 and in 1919 becoming the German Communist Party, led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
- spec ratio — (benchmark) Results for each individual benchmark of the SPEC benchmark suites, for example CINT92 and CFP92, expressed as the ratio of the wall clock time to execute one single copy of the benchmark, compared to a fixed "SPEC reference time", which was chosen early-on as the execution time on a VAX 11/780. See also SPEC rate.
- spectatrix — a female spectator
- spencerian — pertaining to or characteristic of a system of penmanship, characterized by clear, rounded letters slanting to the right.
- spermaceti — a pearly white, waxy, translucent solid, obtained from the oil in the head of the sperm whale: used chiefly in cosmetics and candles, and as an emollient.
- sporadical — (of similar things or occurrences) appearing or happening at irregular intervals in time; occasional: sporadic renewals of enthusiasm.
- sporicidal — a substance or preparation for killing spores.