10-letter words containing a, s, c, n
- panspermic — relating to panspermia
- pantoscope — a panoramic camera
- parischane — a parish
- parsonical — a member of the clergy, especially a Protestant minister; pastor; rector.
- patchiness — characterized by or made up of patches.
- patchstand — a small tazza.
- peace sign — a sign representing “peace,” made by extending the forefinger and middle finger upward in a V -shape with the palm turned outward.
- pennaceous — having the texture of a penna; not downy.
- pentastich — a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of five lines or verses.
- percussant — (of an animal's tail on a heraldic shield) bent round to the animal's side
- phantasmic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phrenesiac — hypochondriacal
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- pianistics — (used with a singular verb) the art or practice of playing the piano.
- picayunish — of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- piscifauna — all the fishes that live in a particular place, time or habitat
- placidness — pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters.
- plant cost — the cost to a business of mechanical equipment
- plasticine — Plasticine is a soft coloured substance like clay which children use for making models.
- pleonastic — the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
- poachiness — the state of being poachy
- pocahontas — (Rebecca Rolfe) 1595?–1617, American Indian woman who is said to have prevented the execution of Captain John Smith.
- podcasting — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- pollen sac — one of the cavities in an anther in which pollen is produced.
- postlaunch — relating to or occurring in the period after a launch
- postulance — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- postulancy — the period or state of being a postulant, especially in a religious order.
- practisant — a conspirator; someone who plots or schemes
- practising — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- preachings — the act or practice of a person who preaches.
- psittacine — of or relating to parrots.
- pugnacious — inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
- pulsatance — the angular frequency of a periodic motion
- punctuates — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
- 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
- puschkinia — a small spring-flowering bulb, Puschkinia scilloides, of Asia Minor and the Caucasus, having white or pale blue flowers striped with dark blue
- quittances — Plural form of quittance.
- rachmanism — extortion or exploitation by a landlord of tenants of dilapidated or slum property, esp when involving intimidation or use of racial fears to drive out sitting tenants whose rent is fixed at a low rate
- rackabones — 'a rack of bones', a metaphor for a person or animal that is very thin or emaciated
- raconteurs — Plural form of raconteur.
- raconteuse — a woman who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- raise cain — the first son of Adam and Eve, who murdered his brother Abel. Gen. 4.
- rank scale — (in systemic linguistics) a hierarchical ordering of grammatical units such that a unit of a given rank normally consists of units of the next lower rank, as, in English, the ordering sentence, clause, group or phrase, word, morpheme.
- ransacking — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- ranshackle — to ransack
- ranunculus — any ranunculaceous plant of the genus Ranunculus, having finely divided leaves and typically yellow five-petalled flowers. The genus includes buttercup, crowfoot, spearwort, and lesser celandine
- rascallion — a villain, a rascal
- recusation — the act of recusing a judge