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11-letter words containing c, y, p

  • proficiency — the state of being proficient; skill; expertness: proficiency in music.
  • prokaryotic — 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.
  • prolificacy — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
  • prolificity — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
  • promiscuity — the state of being promiscuous.
  • promycelium — a short filament produced in the germination of a spore that bears small spores and then dies.
  • prosaically — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
  • prosecutory — of, relating to, or concerned with prosecution.
  • prosenchyma — the tissue characteristic of the woody and bast portions of plants, consisting typically of long, narrow cells with pointed ends.
  • prosiliency — prominence
  • proteolytic — the breaking down of proteins into simpler compounds, as in digestion.
  • protocolary — the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
  • protophytic — pertaining to the class Protophyta
  • provocatory — tending to provoke
  • pseudoscopy — the use of a pseudoscope.
  • psilophytic — (of a plant) that grows well in the dry savannah
  • psychagogue — a necromancer
  • psyche knot — a woman's hairdo in which a knot or coil of hair projects from the back of the head.
  • psychedelia — the realm or artifacts of psychedelic drugs, art, writings, or the like.
  • psychedelic — of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.
  • psychiatric — the practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders.
  • psychic bid — a bid designed to mislead one's opponents that is not based on the strength of one's hand or of the suit named but rather on one's feeling that not bidding would be more costly.
  • psychically — of or relating to the human soul or mind; mental (opposed to physical).
  • psychoanal. — psychoanalysis
  • psychobilly — loud frantic rockabilly music
  • psychodelia — the production of, or the culture associated with, psychedelic experiences
  • psychodrama — a method of group psychotherapy in which participants take roles in improvisational dramatizations of emotionally charged situations.
  • psychogenic — having origin in the mind or in a mental condition or process: a psychogenic disorder.
  • psychograph — Psychology. a graph indicating the relative strength of the personality traits of an individual.
  • psychologic — of or relating to psychology.
  • psychomancy — occult communication between souls or with spirits.
  • psychometer — a device for measuring mental or psychological activity
  • psychometry — Psychology. psychometrics.
  • psychomotor — of or relating to a response involving both motor and psychological components.
  • psychonomic — of or relating to psychonomics
  • psychopathy — a mental disorder in which an individual manifests amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
  • psychophily — the pollination of flowers by butterflies
  • psychotogen — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
  • psychotoxic — toxic or harmful to the mind or personality.
  • pterodactyl — any of a number of genera of flying reptiles of the extinct order Pterosauria, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a highly reduced tail and teeth and a birdlike beak.
  • ptochocracy — government by the poor
  • ptyalagogic — saliva-inducing
  • pulp cavity — the entire space occupied by pulp, composed of the root canal and pulp chamber.
  • puncak jaya — a mountain in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, on W New Guinea: highest island point in the world. 16,503 feet (5030 meters).
  • punctuality — the quality or state of being punctual.
  • pycniospore — the spore produced in a pycnium.
  • pylorectomy — the surgical removal of all or part of the pylorus, often including the adjacent portion of the stomach (partial gastrectomy)
  • pyramidical — pyramidal.
  • pyroclastic — composed chiefly of fragments of volcanic origin, as agglomerate, tuff, and certain other rocks; volcaniclastic.
  • pyrogenetic — heat-producing
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