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12-letter words containing c, i, t, y, a

  • nasal cavity — sinus
  • nautical day — a period from noon of one day to noon of the next, used in reckoning time aboard ship.
  • neurotically — of, relating to, or characteristic of neurosis.
  • neurotypical — relating to or showing typical neurological behavior and development: She has one dyslexic and one neurotypical child.
  • nocturnality — of or relating to the night (opposed to diurnal).
  • noematically — in an intellectual manner
  • nonenzymatic — relating to a process not produced by enzymes
  • occidentally — In an occidental manner.
  • octosyllabic — consisting of or pertaining to eight syllables.
  • office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
  • oligodactyly — The presence of fewer than the usual number of fingers or toes.
  • operatically — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
  • oral society — a society that has not developed literacy
  • oratorically — of, relating to, or characteristic of an orator or oratory: His oratorical prowess has led to political success.
  • orbicularity — The quality of being orbicular.
  • ornithomancy — Divination by means of birds, their flight, etc.
  • overactivity — Excessive activity.
  • overcapacity — capacity beyond what is normal, allowed, or desirable.
  • pancytopenia — an abnormally low level of all blood cells
  • pantisocracy — a community, social group, etc, in which all have rule and everyone is equal
  • papistically — in the manner of the Roman Catholic Church or a Roman Catholic
  • paracystitis — inflammation of the connective tissue around the urinary bladder.
  • parity check — a method for detecting errors in data communications or within a computer system by counting the number of ones or zeros per byte or per word, including a special check bit (parity bit) to see if the value is even or odd.
  • participancy — participation.
  • particularly — in a particular or to an exceptional degree; especially: He read it with particularly great interest.
  • pathetically — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
  • payback time — Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences.
  • pedantically — ostentatious in one's learning.
  • penalty kick — a free kick awarded for an infraction committed by a defensive player in the penalty area and taken by the offensive player who has been fouled from a point 12 yards (11 meters) directly in front of the goal.
  • perspicacity — keenness of mental perception and understanding; discernment; penetration.
  • phagocytosis — Physiology. the ingestion of a smaller cell or cell fragment, a microorganism, or foreign particles by means of the local infolding of a cell's membrane and the protrusion of its cytoplasm around the fold until the material has been surrounded and engulfed by closure of the membrane and formation of a vacuole: characteristic of amebas and some types of white blood cells.
  • phagocytotic — relating to phagocytosis
  • phenotypical — the observable constitution of an organism.
  • phonetically — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
  • photodynamic — the science dealing with light and its effects on living organisms.
  • phycoxanthin — a yellow pigment found in brown seaweeds and types of algae
  • phylacteries — 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.
  • physogastric — pertaining to the swollen, membranous abdomen of certain insects, especially termite and ant queens.
  • phytoclimate — the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses (cryptoclimate) of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. (phytoclimate) or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
  • pinealectomy — a surgical operation to remove the pineal gland
  • plastocyanin — a blue protein found in green plants and in some bacteria
  • platonically — of, relating to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
  • play it cool — If you play it cool, you deliberately behave in a calm, unemotional way because you do not want people to know you are enthusiastic or angry about something.
  • play it cozy — to act cautiously so as to avoid risk
  • pneumaticity — the condition of being pneumatic
  • polycythemia — an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles
  • polygamistic — a person who practices or favors polygamy.
  • polysynaptic — having or involving more than one synapse.
  • postsynaptic — being or occurring on the receiving end of a discharge across the synapse.
  • practicality — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
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