9-letter words containing e, n, c, p
- ice plant — a plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, native to the Mediterranean region, having fleshy leaves that are covered with glistening vesicles and are sometimes eaten as greens.
- ice point — the temperature at which a mixture of ice and air-saturated water at a pressure of one atmosphere is in equilibrium, represented by 0°C and 32°F.
- impeccant — Without sin; impeccable.
- impedance — Electricity. the total opposition to alternating current by an electric circuit, equal to the square root of the sum of the squares of the resistance and reactance of the circuit and usually expressed in ohms. Symbol: Z.
- impotence — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- impotency — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- impudence — the quality or state of being impudent; effrontery; insolence.
- impudency — (now rare) Impudence.
- in places — If something has particular characteristics or features in places, it has them at several points within an area.
- in pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- in specie — coined money; coin.
- incapable — not capable.
- incepting — to take in; ingest.
- inception — beginning; start; commencement.
- inceptive — beginning; initial.
- incipient — beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage: an incipient cold.
- incomplex — Not complex; simple.
- inculpate — to charge with fault; blame; accuse.
- inspected — Simple past tense and past participle of inspect.
- inspecter — Archaic form of inspector.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- intercept — to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination: to intercept a messenger.
- intercrop — to grow one crop between the rows of another, as in an orchard or field.
- jack pine — a scrubby pine, Pinus banksiana, growing on tracts of poor, rocky land in Canada and the northern U.S., bearing short needles and curved cones.
- jackanape — Of or pertaining to a jackanapes.
- jacksnipe — Also called half snipe. a small, short-billed snipe, Limnocryptes minimus, of Europe and Asia.
- key punch — Also, key punch. Also called card punch. a machine, operated by a keyboard, for coding information by punching holes in cards or paper tape in specified patterns.
- kinescope — a cathode-ray tube with a fluorescent screen on which an image is reproduced by a directed beam of electrons.
- kneepiece — a piece of armor for protecting the knee, as a poleyn.
- koniscope — a device for detecting and measuring dust in the air
- landscape — a section or expanse of rural scenery, usually extensive, that can be seen from a single viewpoint.
- lap dance — an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.
- lap-dance — an erotic dance by a stripteaser performed mostly in the lap of a customer.
- lickpenny — something that uses up large amounts of money
- line copy — a document, drawing, or the like, consisting of two tones, as black and white, without intermediate gradations. Compare halftone (def 1).
- luckpenny — a coin kept for luck
- mancipate — (obsolete) To enslave.
- manciples — Plural form of manciple.
- marchpane — marzipan.
- mcpherson — Aimee Semple [sem-puh l] /ˈsɛm pəl/ (Show IPA), 1890–1944, U.S. evangelist, born in Canada.
- mepacrine — The drug quinacrine.
- mercaptan — any of a class of sulfur-containing compounds having the type formula RSH, in which R represents a radical, and having an extremely offensive, garlicky odor.
- mince pie — a pie filled with mincemeat.
- mindscape — A mental landscape; the world of the mind.
- monoscope — a cathode-ray tube that provides a signal of a fixed pattern, formerly used for testing television equipment at the end of a broadcast day.
- monospace — Of a typeface, having the same width for each character.
- moonscape — the general appearance of the surface of the moon.
- namespace — (computing) A conceptual space that groups classes, identifiers, etc. to avoid conflicts with items in unrelated code that have the same names.
- nasoscope — Rhinoscope.
- neckpiece — a scarf, especially one of fur.