10-letter words containing c, i, t, r, a
- organicist — Philosophy. the view that some systems resemble organisms in having parts that function in relation to the whole to which they belong. Compare holism (def 1).
- organicity — noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
- orthocaine — a methyl ester used for local anaesthesia
- oscillator — Electronics. a circuit that produces an alternating output current of a certain frequency determined by the characteristics of the circuit components.
- ostracised — Simple past tense and past participle of ostracise.
- ostracises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ostracise.
- ostracized — Simple past tense and past participle of ostracize.
- ostracizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ostracize.
- overacting — Present participle of overact.
- overaction — Excessive action (as of a muscle of the body).
- overactive — exceptionally or excessively active; too active.
- pack trail — a path or route suitable for pack animals
- pack train — a train, or procession, of pack animals
- 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.
- pancratian — (in ancient Greece) of, or relating to, the pancratium
- pancratium — (in ancient Greece) an athletic contest combining wrestling and boxing.
- pancreatic — of or affecting the pancreas
- pancreatin — Biochemistry. a substance containing the pancreatic enzymes, trypsin, amylase, and lipase.
- parabiotic — experimental or natural union of two individuals with exchange of blood.
- parachutic — involving a parachute
- paraenetic — of or relating to moral and ethical instruction or paraenesis
- 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.
- parastichy — one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- paratactic — of, relating to, or involving parataxis
- parodistic — parodic.
- part music — music, especially vocal music, with parts for two or more independent performers.
- 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.
- particular — of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general: one's particular interests in books.
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- patna rice — a variety of long-grain rice, used for savoury dishes
- patriarchs — the male head of a family or tribal line.
- patriarchy — a form of social organization in which the father is the supreme authority in the family, clan, or tribe and descent is reckoned in the male line, with the children belonging to the father's clan or tribe.
- patriciate — the patrician class.
- patricidal — the act of killing one's own father.
- patricliny — patrocliny.
- patrifocal — focused or centered on the father.
- patrilocal — virilocal.
- patristics — patrology (def 1).
- patrocliny — inheritance in which the traits of the offspring are derived primarily from the paternal parent (opposed to matrocliny).
- patronymic — (of family names) derived from the name of a father or ancestor, especially by the addition of a suffix or prefix indicating descent.
- pearl city — a city on S Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- 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.
- pediatrics — the branch of medicine concerned with the development, care, and diseases of babies and children.
- per capita — per person
- perithecia — the fruiting body of ascomycetous fungi, typically a minute, more or less completely closed, globose or flask-shaped body enclosing the asci.
- peritricha — ciliate protozoans, of the order Peritrichida, in which the cilia are restricted to a spiral around the mouth
- phaneritic — (of a rock) having the principal constituents in the form of crystals visible to the naked eye.
- pharmacist — a person licensed to prepare and dispense drugs and medicines; druggist; apothecary; pharmaceutical chemist.
- physiatric — physical medicine.
- physiocrat — one of a school of political economists who followed Quesnay in holding that an inherent natural order properly governed society, regarding land as the basis of wealth and taxation, and advocating a laissez-faire economy.