10-letter words containing c, i, n, s
- percussion — the striking of one body against another with some sharpness; impact; blow.
- pernicious — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- pestilence — a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
- phantasmic — pertaining to or of the nature of a phantasm; unreal; illusory; spectral: phantasmal creatures of nightmare.
- phosphonic — of or relating to phosponic acid or anything derived from it
- phrenesiac — hypochondriacal
- phrensical — frenzical; frenzied
- physicking — a medicine that purges; cathartic; laxative.
- 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.
- pickedness — sharpness or the state of being pointed
- picnickers — an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
- picosecond — one trillionth of a second. Abbreviation: ps, psec.
- pig-sconce — a foolish person
- pincushion — a small cushion into which pins are stuck until needed.
- pinocytose — (of a cell) to take within by means of pinocytosis.
- piscifauna — all the fishes that live in a particular place, time or habitat
- pitchstone — a glassy volcanic rock having a resinous luster and resembling hardened pitch.
- placidness — pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters.
- 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.
- pleustonic — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
- pluckiness — having or showing pluck or courage; brave: The drowning swimmer was rescued by a plucky schoolboy.
- pneumatics — a pneumatic tire.
- poachiness — the state of being poachy
- 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.
- pontifices — plural of pontifex.
- 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.
- precession — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
- preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- prescience — knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.
- presidency — the office, function, or term of office of a president.
- prick song — written music.
- pricklings — tingly sensations of discomfort or euphoria
- princedoms — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
- princeship — a nonreigning male member of a royal family.
- princesses — a nonreigning female member of a royal family.
- princessly — resembling a princess
- principles — an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
- processing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- procession — the act of moving along or proceeding in orderly succession or in a formal and ceremonious manner, as a line of people, animals, vehicles, etc.
- prognostic — of or relating to prognosis.
- proscenium — Also called proscenium arch. the arch that separates a stage from the auditorium. Abbreviation: pros.
- proscience — a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.
- prosecting — to dissect (a cadaver or part) for anatomical demonstration.
- psilocybin — a hallucinogenic crystalline solid, C 1 2 H 1 7 N 2 O 4 P, obtained from the mushroom Psilocybe mexicana.
- psittacine — of or relating to parrots.
- publicness — the quality or state of being public or being owned by the public.