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11-letter words containing c, y, p, r, o, n

  • paronychial — of or relating to paronychia
  • peppercorny — the berry of the pepper plant, Piper nigrum, dried and used as a condiment, in pickling, etc.
  • perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • plantocracy — government by plantation owners.
  • policyowner — policyholder.
  • polycentric — having many centers, especially of power or importance: the polycentric world of banking.
  • polynuclear — having many nuclei.
  • pondicherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
  • prepollency — the quality of being prepollent
  • proficiency — the state of being proficient; skill; expertness: proficiency in music.
  • prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
  • prosiliency — prominence
  • pycniospore — the spore produced in a pycnium.
  • pyrogenetic — heat-producing
  • pyrognostic — relating to heated minerals
  • pyrokinetic — the ability to set objects or people on fire through the concentration of psychic power.
  • pyrotechnic — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • pyrovanadic — of or relating to an acid of vanadium
  • pyroxenitic — relating to pyroxenite
  • retinoscopy — an objective method of determining the refractive error of an eye.
  • ribbon copy — the original copy of a number of typewritten copies (distinguished from carbon copy).
  • scenography — the art of representing objects in accordance with the rules of perspective.
  • scorpionfly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
  • tephromancy — the seeking of the future using ashes
  • trichonymph — a flagellated protozoan of the genus Trichonympha that lives in the intestine of wood-eating termites, transforming the cellulose in the wood into soluble carbohydrates that can be utilized by the insect.
  • trypanocide — a drug or substance that kills trypanosomes
  • zincography — the art or process of producing a printing surface on a zinc plate, especially of producing one in relief by etching away unprotected parts with acid.
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