10-letter words containing c, e, t, y
- overcostly — Too costly. (from 16th c.).
- 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
- patty-cake — pat-a-cake.
- pay packet — Your pay packet is the envelope containing your wages, which your employer gives you at the end of every week.
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- penetrancy — the quality of being penetrant
- pentaptych — a work of art consisting of five panels or sections.
- peptolytic — causing the hydrolysis of peptides.
- periphytic — the community of tiny organisms, as protozoans, hydras, insect larvae, and snails, that lives on the surfaces of rooted aquatic plants.
- pernickety — persnickety.
- petty cash — funds kept for minor expenses
- phenocryst — any of the conspicuous crystals in a porphyritic rock.
- phenotypic — the observable constitution of an organism.
- 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.
- phytogenic — of plant origin.
- pinocytose — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
- 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.
- polychrest — a thing which has adapted to multiple uses
- polycrates — died 522? b.c, Greek tyrant of Samos.
- polyethnic — inhabited by or consisting of people of many ethnic backgrounds.
- preceptory — a subordinate house or community of the Knights Templars; commandery.
- preciosity — fastidious or carefully affected refinement, as in language, style, or taste.
- predictory — predictive.
- premycotic — relating to the early phase of mycosis fungoides
- prepotency — the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
- 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.
- protectory — an institution for the care of destitute or delinquent children.
- pulpectomy — the removal of all the pulp tissue in a tooth in the course of endodontic therapy.
- pycnometer — a container used for determining the density of a liquid or powder, having a specific volume and often provided with a thermometer to indicate the temperature of the contained substance.
- pycnostyle — having an intercolumniation of 1½ diameters.
- pyrotechny — the art of making fireworks
- pythogenic — originating from filth or putrescence.
- queen city — Toronto.
- reactively — tending to react.
- reactivity — the quality or condition of being reactive.
- recreatory — refreshment by means of some pastime, agreeable exercise, or the like.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- reluctancy — unwillingness; disinclination: reluctance to speak in public.
- rescrutiny — a searching examination or investigation; minute inquiry.
- retardancy — any substance capable of reducing the speed of a given reaction.
- revocatory — revoking or tending to revoke; containing or expressing a revocation
- safety car — life car.
- salicylate — a salt or ester of salicylic acid.
- sclerotomy — incision into the sclera, as to extract foreign bodies.
- scythelike — an agricultural implement consisting of a long, curving blade fastened at an angle to a handle, for cutting grass, grain, etc., by hand.
- secularity — secular views or beliefs; secularism.